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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Thoracic Outlet Syndrome/Brachial Plexopathy. In Memory Of DeAnne Marie. |
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Hi all.
I just found this group and have been reading a lot of your posts. Many of your posts sound very similar to what I have been going through. Heres my history: I workout a lot, mix of weight lifting and gymnastics type of movements. I gained about 25 lbs of muscle within a year so theres obvious inclinations of anatomy getting shifted around quickly. Anyways, about 2 years ago I fell off a set of rings (like gymnastics rings) and immediately felt a pinching pain in my shoulder/tightness in the front of my neck. Later on/next few days, the pain became extremely severe. Went to the dr but I was diagnosed with a severe illness and stopped all activity for 2-3 months in which the pain persisted. After a year I finally got everything checked out. -Cervical MRI: some disc herniation but spine specialist reported normal, nothing to worry about -Brachial Plexus MRI: normal -EMG: one reported normal, one reported with some abnormalities -seen m3-4 chiropractors, PT for 6 months (ART, gratson +exercises all which do nothing, possibly make it worse), trigger point injections for 1.5 years, cervical epidural done... all no relief -take topomax -gone to two neurologists, both tell me its muscular -pain is in my pinky and ring finger, bicep, shoulder, shoulder blade area, pec/chest, subclavicular/infraclavicular areas, up SCM, jaw and occipital headaches -fatigue with brushing hair, teeth etc. I could go on... Any suggestions? |
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Has anyone tried rib mobilisations? to check or possibly drop the top rib back into place?
Manual trigger point work of the muscles? Muscles cannot be fixed/relaxed if triggers are in them.. see our TOS sticky threads for more info.. Other things that helped for me.. IF stim - DC used it so then got my own off Amazon under 100.00 low/soft/cold laser - DC used it and it was very fast & helpful for trouble spots/joints. but rehab/recovery for my repetitive work RSI/TOS was about 2.5 yrs... but part of that was delayed due to work comp baloney.. I really got best recovery when off work and found a very good DC & when I plateaued in my recovery I found a PT teacher that tried the rib mob ( it was exactly what I needed). My spasmed muscles had pulled my top ribs up pinching things between my collarbones.. I then told DC about that and he followed up as needed..
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If you let us know what area of the country you are in someone may be able to point you in the direction of a doctor that could help.
In my case a neurologist wasn't able to help, but a thoracic surgeon was. |
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STL123 -- are you from St. Louis? Have you been to Barnes? It's a great place to try.
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Im looking into thoracic surgeons but I wasn't sure if that would be the correct route to go to. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Wren (05-13-2018) |
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