5 Questions our patients asked about Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in February...

[@jenniferhellenbrand7059]

Very interesting! I appreciate the information. I was recently diagnosed & treated with a first rib resection for Pagett Schrotter

[@carinacosta9019]

I live in France, I am 38 years old, i live in France and I have two jobs, one at the computer and the other in a bakery, but it's similar to what you'd describe as a UPS delivery person's job - carrying boxes and lifting my arms a lot. The first symptom appeared 2 months after I started working at the bakery. I ignored it because I thought it was just a sore wrist, then the pain moved to the elbow on the other side. After 6 months it got drastically worse, until before my sick leave, I left work crying in pain. I couldn't move my arms, and I had tingling, weakness, pricking sensations, arm pain, and numbness in one arm. At first, I was diagnosed with tendinitis, then the physiotherapist with a bilan suspected something else. After an X-ray that showed astrose in my chest, I was seen by 2 family doctors, and the work doctor, I was their first case. I insisted on seeing a specialist and not leaving without a final diagnosis. Since I live in France, I went to a vascular doctor. He did an echo on my arms and saw that blood wasn't circulating in my left arm when it was at a 90° angle. He confirmed the diagnostics. I am currently doing physiotherapy, but my questions are: don't know if is neurogenic, arterial or both and is this a professional disease? Thanks for the content.

[@tosmri]

Hi, Carina-Sorry to hear of your symptoms. We cannot address specific medical questions here, for obvious reasons. Its good that you have a vascular doctor. If he or she suspects your blood flow is being compromised on arm motion (either arterial or venous), that's a good suggestion to further evaluation of TOS.

[@GermanL-ys4kk]

I really appreciated art jenkins video when he showed tos 2 tos patient cases with pain/parestesia CBSQ diagrams of the patients. Can you share more CBSQ pain patters of patients with TOS? Specially when there are non classical pain/parestesia patters?

[@tosmri]

Thank you for your suggestion. We should have Dr. Jenkins on soon, and will share with him.

[@mauricio22565]

Thanks. specially about pain/parestesia patterns not usually found on the first page of google images when you search "thoracic outlet pain/parestesia patterns" My pain patterns are not usual, pain/parestesia only in hands and it seems hard to diagnose this cases, , even for the "top" tos surgeon in my country (5 surgeries per year).@@tosmri