I ve been in pt now for almost 4 month and had little progress. I ve been off work since and they are hounding me. I m part time working on a computer for 8hours. I attempted to go back and had a lot of pain. It seems just placing my arms to type causes me distress. They think at work if I take rest periods that it will cause me no pain but it does. I don t even really understand why it so uncomfortable . My workspace is ergonomically correct so I m not sure why I have this. Anyway my md is sending me to see a cardiologist because I have compression on my supraventricular on the left side. My pt though is was odd because I have pain on my right side. It was during the adson test that they saw this on a vascular test. I have a few questions first is it worth continuing pt? Is surgery at this point an option? Do you have to have a extra rib to be dx with tos. My employment seems to think so. I had applied for compensation and was denied Therapy is very expensive money I don t have. Thanks for listen Had to vent Im ready to explode I also have to deal with diabetes t2 as well right now which is new dx

What kind of PT are you doing? have you shown any improvement at all?
What age are you aswell?

PT is working for me so i definately is worth continuing, all depends on the severity of your conditions though. Are you gettin any neurological pains?

Sorry to seashell I thought I started a new thread. I m new to tos and if I was having surgery I would defenetely take the time off to heal. Hope things go well for you.
Im 46. My pt does stretching in the scalenes right now. I did have numbness in 2 fingers which is gone but continue to have aching in the arm. of course it depends what i m doing. I continue to have tingling and patchy white palms. I did read the site but they are old post and want to have some current advice. Some of it has been helpful to understand this conidtion. As well I do stretches daily at home for 40min.

You need a crash course on TOS & testing - the best way is to look thru our useful sticky thread starting with post #1.

If you're pursuing a work comp claim we have a a wc forum also or you can do a search for work comp info on just the TOS forum.

The posts will be older ones 2006-08 mostly i think??
so you may have to change your settings to allow older posts to show for you.