Foot Numbness associated with TOS
 

Hello I am new to this forum but it looks like a great community. I have a question for the group. Have any of you with TOS experienced numbess in your feet?

*About 4 years ago I started to have slight numbness in my left hand (I'm right handed). I was living overseas so I did not have access to a good doctor.
* 2 years ago I moved to the Bay area and I went to see a doctor. At that time I was having constant numbness in my left hand.
* I work for a large corporation so our work stations are set up very well. We even have work station evaluations and software on our computers to make us take breaks.
* My doctor sent me to a neurologist. The neorologist conducted nerve tests and rulled out carpul tunnel. She thought it was nerve entrapment on my elblow so she sent me to a surgon.
* The surgon performed an ulnar nerve release. After recoving I was very disappointed to have the same numbness continue.
* About a year ago I started having numbess in both hands.
* Neorolgist had an MRI done of my neck and found slight disk degeneration. She sent me to PT.
* My PT informed me she thought I had TOS which I had never heard of before.
* PT recommended I see Peter Edglow a PT who specializes in TOS.
* I've been doing PT with Peter for 5 weeks with some slight imprvovement. I notice significant improvement if I maintain a chin in, head back posture.
* In the last 2 weeks my right foot has started to develop almost continuous numbness.

My question is, does anyone else with TOS have foot numbess? I have not seen any other connections in doing research. I'm starting to wonder if I have some other spinal issues that are causing the problems.

My symptoms never include pain only numbess. Now I have been transferred to an international location. My only help is self literature and my self PT that Peter Edglow taught me. Thanks

Try stretches for Piriformis syndrome- they are easy, and people who are prone to TOS are often also prone to piriformis.

I have numbess and weird sensations in my feet, but the stretches have helped tremendously.

two of the most common are listed on this page.

good luck!
http://www.tailored-fitness-home-wor..._syndrome.html

JOHANNA - THANKS! This one is getting printed out!

STELDR - I have had this condition since maybe a few months after my injury occurred in 2000. Johanna is correct. It's NOT sciatica which I thought it was for the longest time. Dr. Collins pinned that dx down during my MRI/MRA in 2001. Dr. Jordan is the first to apply the dx to my condition. Unfortunately, us TOSer's get underlying conditions such as this, Fibromyalgia, RSD, etc... which are contributory from the TOS & can eventually overtake the TOS symptoms due to the nerve trauma. Sad, huh?

I know this question has come up here before. Maybe in a thread started by Tam ? If not, I'm sure she posted in it. Hopefully, she will see this thread.

I xannot for the life of me figure out how TOS and same side foot numbness can be connected........but it seems like there are far too many of us with it for it to be purely coincidental.

If it were just me, I'd blame my diabetes (thank you Neurontin :rolleyes:)

What do you mean thank you Neurontin for diabetes? I am on 1200mg of it daily.
I too have the problems in my legs. My Dr. says that we are simply the type of people that are more likely to be susceptible to nerve trauma. If we can develop TOS from repetitive use or accident trauma, we are more likely to develop issues from other things, like being more sedentary than we were before TOS.
Trix

I believe that we could be more subsceptible to nerve issues. I just think it's odd that we all happen to have nerve issues in our feet/legs on the same side as our TOS. Random nerve issues should be just as likely to occur on the opposite side.

The crack about Neurontin is because that is what caused my diabetes. I definitely have other risk factors, but if I wean off the Neurontin for a bit, my blood sugars are totally normal.