Hi @sclindajanssen and @astaingegerdm

Thanks for the info, I had come across this but didn't want to believe it. Doctors, consultants and surgeons are considered to be some of the smartest people in society, how can such intelligent people base everything on such a study. They would second guess the dead rather than listen to the living! Looking at MALs in dead people has far too many variables for them to even draw a hypothesis. Because of this belief MALs will stay as a condition of exclusion. MALs sufferers worldwide will continue to suffer silently undergoing unnecessary operations and years of diagnostic procedures making it too late to treat when they do finally find the compression. It takes guts to speak out against this like Dr Hsu from Connecticut who I believe is not very popular amongst fellow surgeon because of how he treats MALs. Sometimes it takes a pioneer to push the boundaries of what we know to change how others think. If I could afford to be treated by Dr Hsu I would fly out to America tomorrow. I think it is up to us the sufferers to help with that change in mindset by demanding similar surgery from our surgeons, it seems that the earlier the treatment with extensive cutting back of the ligament and Nerve bundle the better the prognosis.