Originally Posted by husky601 (Post 1049447)

That's may be him. "His clinical work focuses on pediatric facial paralysis, nerve injury, hand surgery and micro-vascular reconstruction"

Yes i did have a first rib resection but din't work. I did lots of studying after my surgery about TOS and i tried lots of different treatment and i wasn't able to find something to manage my pain till i tried global postural re-education (GPR). It make a difference and i think i start to reverse the cycle but i still have lots to do.

I found some others trick like cold bath:eek: with ice cube on it for 5 minutes in the morning. Just cold water with lots of ice. It's making a huge difference at the point who i am able to relief pretty much 100% of my pain for few hours even for the whole day sometime. Also relaxing hot bath with epsom salt at night just before going to bed feels good to me.

There is only one thing who i think is good for everone here and it's global postural re-education. For the rest i believe it's different for everyone here. Not to be a bad person but there is to much people here who think they know how to heal with different method and they think everyone has to use the same way to heal so may be not a bad idea to not listening everyone here but must of people are realist and give their opinion which is great.

The truth is that substantially everyone react on different way to all the different treatment. Chiropractic is good for me but not necessarily for you as substantially all other treatments offered except the global postural re-education who i'm sure will help anyone here. Unfortunately there are not many of those and they are really hard to find in the US and i don't know why. In Quebec they are pretty easy to find, same in Europe. It's not to bad to find one in Ontario but there are not much in the US.

Anyway my opinion is posture and disciplines are the keys. For the rest i think you have to find your own tricks and reed the maximum as you can about TOS to understand what is TOS and maybe find out what type of TOS you think you have. If you are up to give you bit of hard time I suggest you to try a cold water bath with ice on it but i am not sure if it's good for everyone. One thing i know is it's freaking cold!!!


Alexis

Originally Posted by KentonHorgan (Post 1178005)

Hi, I'm a 19 year old male based about 45 minutes North of Toronto and suffer chronic pain through my upper extremities on a constant, daily basis. I havent been officially diagnosed but through vast research over the past year and frequent hospital visits with no results, I'm fairly certain I have Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and I don't know what to do.

About a 15 months ago I went swimming in a public pool at night with some friends and accidentaly dove head first into the shallow end of the swimming pool. I could move my head for a month, i got xrays and they said i was okay, my head started to get better and i started working full time on an assembly line. after 6 onths i had to quit because i was suffering eexcrusiating pain by working. Ibuprofen did nothing.

I now have to stretch my shoulders and crack my neck on constant basis to keep my neck and head from seizing up in pain. I cant lift my arms above my head, my vision goes dark when i take a deep breath, my lymph nodes are always swollen and there are lumps forming on my esophagus. and i have had a blind spot in the center of my right eye for 2 months, I cant wear a backpack, i cant drive because i start to swerve whenever i have to crack my neck which is about every 5 minutes or so. I now work 3 shifts a week at a convenience store and even that's over baring to do, the pain's taking control of my life and every doctor i go to tells me im fine.

TLDR: Does anyone know of a Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Specialst in Ontario because I feel like I'm dying.

Originally Posted by Akash (Post 1178105)

Hi, did you have a detailed cervical screen? MRIs are necessary not just x-rays for any disc related issues.

also, please try not to crack your neck too much, you could be contributing to cervical instability by weakening or spasming your overactive muscles.

a possible alternative could be to take some pain relieving gel and deeply massaging your muscles.

Originally Posted by Jo*mar (Post 1178146)

A vascular surgeon can also dx & treat NTOS I believe.. they aren’t limited to Vascular issues only..

So you had a concussion or possible TBI from the pool diving? You hit your head?
That can cause quite a few issues also..
If so you might benefit from some upper cervical chiropractic care.. it is not scary, if you are leery of general chiropractic the upper cervical is so gentle. look it up on you tube.. but basically your c 1 c 2 probably got really misaligned when you hit your head in the pool..

A full cervical MRI should be done as mentioned..to clearly rule in/out any injury.

Have you had any expert PT at all?
They can do some positional & other testing during the evaluation..