Grays Anatomy - TOS on TV

dawn3063 · 10-25-2006, 07:37 PM

That was good Trivia..
I got a 60%

DiMarie · 10-25-2006, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by nidia74

i really like how burke has had to more realistically battle his symptoms. his comments to christina last week really hit home...
the only problem i see with anyone identifying brachial plexus and correlating it to our lives is remembering the name of the body area that is affecting us...as in i thought you have something wrong with your thoracic outlet? but hopefully will give someone some insight and help them to "get" it.
nidia

nidia,
guess the doc is using the correct terminology for the syndrome...
I Had Doc Togut correct me early on that it is correct doctor talk, Brachial Plexus entrapment..the TOS is what we get labled I guess. The brachial bundle nerves C5/6/7/8 & t/1 are the bundle, they travel across the traps to the arm and brach off. They lay behind the collar bone and in front of the first rib in a tiny space they travel along with the vascular bundle.
THUS the thoracic "inlet". Out to the arm they become the radial, ulnar, and medial nerve.

Doc T says that TOS is the common term, not the proper term.
When he wrote the diagx , I keptthe tablet paper he wrote it on, "Brachial Plexus Entrapment" so sticks with me.

The Brachial bundle- branch from the cervical spine all the way to the finger tips about three feet long. Anywhere a "hinge" like the shoulder-elbow-wriste can bend and compress can develope symptoms. That is why so often there is DeQuirvians (sp), carpal tunnel, or ulnar tunnel, even bursitis as diagx...
Makes one want to slam their upper arm in a mamography machine full force and say is that bursitis?

Bursitis is local to that bursi area...does not travel, if they lift your arm and the pain travels, flares, numbs, pins, etc...it is TOS not bursitis.
Been to some real jerks with De and some really sympathetic....

(Not that most of us do not know this, I just put all this for any new folks that may find this post some day in a search)

But what ever term we use, it sucks....how about going to an ER in a flare and have them go oh you have bursitis! In a major flare. LOL! At least when my Ortho saw De, he took an xray, saw the bursitis, was shocked as he thought it was the TOS, but gave a shot in the bursi and IT DID calm down.

I am rattling, time for bed, lack of sleep during vacation and off to a confernce tomorrow to Saturday.
Di

12-06-2006, 04:15 PM

Is everyone still watching?? What do you think about the latest sequence of events??

G ~

dawn3063 · 12-06-2006, 04:32 PM

I'm still watching.. I'm a Greys Junkie..

Hmmm, I think Mc Dreamy will fix Dr Burk..

Well have to wait and see. Too bad it's a repeat tonight..

12-06-2006, 04:48 PM

I am disapoinnted tonight is a re-run also...

and for the record, I am a Mc Dreamy fan...

LOL,

G ~

buriedinbooks · 12-07-2006, 12:09 PM

A re-run tonight?? Grrr.....

For a review of what has happened to each of the characters on the show since season one check out this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_from_Grey's_Anatomy

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