Yes, he will be able to see what compression, if any, is going on. I don't believe that he does cervical MRI's and I don't know if he'll be able to comment on that. I also have an MRI report that mentions foraminal narrowing, but I've had several spine surgeons say that it is very mild. I plan on getting a cervical epidural in the next few weeks just to make sure I don't get any pain relief from that before I go into TOS surgery in a month.

My insurance does contract with UCLA but my claim got denied because I unfortunately wasted authorizations getting a brachial plexus MRI from a radiologist that doesn't know TOS and also a (according to Collins) pointless MRN. Hopefully the doctor that ordered it will help me to appeal it.

Have you chosen a surgeon for your surgery? Did Dr. Collins recommend surgery for you? Just wondering because a few ppl on another TOS forum said he has steered them away from surgery.

I'm meeting Dr. Gelabert tomorrow and I'm pretty sure that I'm choosing him. Dr. Collins said that he doesn't tell patients what to do because that is the surgeon's job. He did say that he would definitely give PT a shot before going into surgery, and if I do go into surgery he recommended Gelabert. I've been in PT for the past year (without the TOS diagnosis) and currently seeing Ando & Aston. Unless something changes soon with Ando, I'm going forward with the surgery.