Jarrod, I have a client you should talk to. She has been through the mill diagnosing problems that may be cervical, TOS or others. She had some procedures aimed at TOS that were unsuccessful. Contact me off the forum and I'll put you in touch with her.
TOS is one of those specialties in which the doctors who embrace and treat the diagnosis may have a tendancy to overdiagnose what they are looking for. Be careful.
For most of us, pain free is not a possiblity... once we get a significant distance down the road of spine procedures and surgeries; putting us back together in a pain free state is for a lucky, small percentage of us. That does not mean to stop trying... just beware. You don't do surgery to go from a pain level of 2 or 3 to zero. A pain level of 2, 3 or 4 would be considered success AFTER surgery.
All the best,
Mark
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