United Brachial Plexus Network

<r>Amelia<br/> Happy to hear you are getting the attention you need from neurologists and neurosurgeons. I wish you all the best with your exploratory surgery.<br/> Just out of curiosity...have you checked out this TOS website?... no doubt you have, but some interesting information and stories there...

<t>Hi Mike<br/> I certainly can relate to everything you are saying...<br/> and I feel your pain...so sorry. <br/> As I understand it (after 5 years living with this and studying it), Parsonage-Turner is just the original terminology giving to this condition. It is known by many other names such as ...

Botox on a 3 month old???
Please get a second opinion about this and proceed with extreme caution!

<t>SO sorry... The good news is that Whiplash symptoms usually subside more quickly than nerve injuries... I believe I was much improved in a few months time...although time will not heal the damage done to disks (neck pain) and my doctors are not willing to operate on cervical disks unless there is...

<t>Dave<br/> I don't understand the medical use of Botox either! Just my opinion, again, but the last thing I think you would want to do is paralyze the muscles you want to get functioning also.<br/> I too have heard of a few cases of more damage being done with this and I can't recall hearing any p...

<t>So sorry to here that you now have to deal with this Amelia! I am not a doctor and so this is just my opinion (as a winger who incurred a LTN injury during surgery), but I would think that it was likely the TOS surgery that caused the injury. If you were suffering with whiplash symptoms such as n...

<t>Hello all<br/> I have recently heard about a doctor who does IMS (Intramuscular Stimulation) through someone who has TOS, goes to this doctor for regular treatments, and has experienced good pain relief from it.<br/> I had read about this a year ago and was interested at the time but it was not y...

<t>Thanks for the link Onepaw. I will read it. Gayle, so sorry to hear about your bad experience. A collapsed lung! Good grief!<br/> The chair pad is just one of those full length ones you can use on any chair or plug into your car lighter. It was a real bargain so I thought it would be another usel...

<t>Sorry I missed that segment!<br/> Always good to hear that there is a group of doctors working on finding a solution to this chronic pain so many must cope with!<br/> I have been told that my pain is no longer stemming from the original injury, but that the signals to my brain are confused and th...

<t>I know that the holiday season has nearly come and gone, but I want to share with you a gift I received that is already giving me tremendous relief from my pain!<br/> I have tried them all! Tens, massagers, ice packs, heat packs, memory foam, gels, MSM, muscle relaxants, anti-inflammatories etc. ...