@4846 What surgeons need to be careful about is where is the source of the nerve issues? Is it a compression at the elbow joint or wrist, and not coming from the spine? Is it a compression between the collar bone and rib cage as in thoracic outlet syndrome? (I have that ) Is it a problem in the muscle not responding correctly to nerve signals? They also need to see a structural problem in the spine that can be correlated to the nerve symptoms that you have. I think in my case, my EMG showed that most of my nerves were functional. I did have muscle atrophy on the back of my shoulders that one surgeon didn't think looked abnormal, but I knew that it was, and my physical therapist also pointed it out to me. That was from the cervical central canal stenosis and I got a lot of that muscle back after my decompression surgery.

What do you imaging reports say? Do they list "moderate" conditions? What are the symptoms that you are having?