PERIPHERAL NERVE ENTRAPMENTS: THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME (TOS) Is your patient experiencing neurological signs & symptoms in the arm? Have you excluded cervical nerve root compression and carpal tunnel syndrome? If the above, most common, causes of peripheral nerve pathology have been excluded, one can think of other sites of nerve entrapment. Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) is a symptom complex, which describes the entrapment of neurological, arterial or venous structures at the posterior scalene

NECK PAIN? NUMBNESS & TINGLING? 👉Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Aka TOS, is a very common diagnosis, affecting approximately 8% of the population. Pain with TOS often presents anywhere between the neck, face, occipital region or into the chest, shoulder, with paresthesia into the upper extremity. Just all other syndromes this diagnosis encompasses a host of signs and symptoms and doesn’t tell us the specific pain generator. TOS can be broken down into neurogenic TOS (95-98% of cases according to Davi