In October 2021 Dr Stoxen contacted my father to let him know he would be in London treating another TOS patient so we arranged to meet with him and get his treatment,
That made sense and when we finally met with him in October, he was 100% right. Dr Stoxen said this is cause when the pectoralis minor, coracobrachialis and biceps short head is stretched across the tunnel causing the narrowing and the symptoms and obviously not the first rib elevation. If I am lifting the shoulder up then I am lifting the roof off the tunnel and first rib. The doctors said I needed a first rib resection.ĭr Stoxen told my dad on the phone that the shoulder is the roof of the tunnel and the first rib was the floor of the tunnel. This is when my arm went purple and white. Doctors did an MRI where I had my arm over my head while I opened and closed my hand. I went to the top doctors on Harley Street in Marylebone, central London, which has been noted since the 19th century for its large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery. I was scared I could get another clot at any moment. I was told not to do any exercise of any kind and I should refrain from lifting my arms over my head. So, I had a purple/white swollen arm for 10 months.
We agreed but with Covid it wasn’t safe for me to go to Chicago and the US government banned travel to the US. Also, the physiotherapists did not have a good game plan to open the outlet. He contacted Dr Stoxen by phone where Dr Stoxen said that the doctors that were treating me with the blood thinners had no way to gauge if my thoracic outlet was open as to when to come off the blood thinners. The cause of the clot was thoracic outlet syndrome.Īfter this, my father did some research into TOS where he found and read Dr Stoxen’s book, The Human Spring Approach to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. The doctors dissolved the clot then recommended to me and my family I have my first rib and scalenes surgically removed to prevent another clot. In December 2020, I suffered a blood clot in my subclavian vein after a workout.
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