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@jdodd81 I'm a spine surgery patient for a cervical problem and I have thoracic outlet syndrome. I'm curious, what was the reason to do surgery and not address a collapsed disc in the operated area? What direction did the disc herniate and could it have gotten worse since your procedure? The burning pain is a concern, and your surgery was just last month, right? Have you asked your surgeon about this?
The numbness and tingling in your hand could be something like TOS and stress and the inflammation in your body from just having had surgery will increase the symptoms there. I'm guessing that you are not very active right now and walking might be difficult or painful, and that you may not be trying to maintain good posture in all you do. With TOS, a forward head posture, slouching shoulders or bracing against pain can aggravate it, and it's a postural nerve entrapment between the collar bone and rib cage of nerves and the blood supply to your arm. It may have more symptoms at night because of your arm position while sleeping. If you had an injury like a whiplash as a cause of spine problems, you may have TOS and it is more common in spine injury patients.
When you are healed enough for physical therapy, you might want to consider Myofascial release therapy for surgical scar tissue in the fascia. Here is a lot of information about MFR, and a link to find a therapist in this discussion That I created about MFR. This might be something else to ask your surgeon about.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/myofascial-release-therapy-mfr-for-treating-compression-and-pain/
Here is some information about TOS https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/thoracic-outlet-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20353988
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@jenniferhunter I had my massage yesterday and as we where talking Michelle the therapist said she is going in continuing education take MFR so am glad to hear this When she knows the technique I will be going to her
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@jenniferhunter I had 2 previous microdiscectomies on the left side due to a herniated disc. 3 weeks after I returned to work from the second surgery I fell and messed up the right side. So everything that is being done now is on workman’s comp. They can’t prove that the fall collapsed the disc so workers Comp would not approve for them to fix it. I went and saw my surgeon today and he said there is a large amount of narrowing on the left side from the 2 prior surgeries and a small amount on the right side from my recent surgery. He said that the right side is having to compensate for the left side. He has stopped physical therapy and has ordered a cat scan and a mri. He wants to get a good look at the nerve, see if anything else has collapsed, and make sure I don’t have any small fractures in the vertebrae that he can’t see on the X-ray. He definitely thinks something is going on and just can’t figure out what.