Dr. Tim Tollestrup explains diagnosis and treatment for ACNES, Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome. For patients with ACNES, the diagnosis and surgical treatment is straightforward with a quick recovery. However, often patients see dozens of other doctors...
Dallas suffered for more than a decade with pain and numbness in both arms and shoulders from Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. She was offered a surgical rib resection by a neurologist but as a scientific writer she researched the surgery and felt there had to be a better...
Go inside the operating room with Dr. Tim Tollestrup as he performs his 500th piriformis muscle removal surgery. It is a surgery he pioneered and has done successfully to help patients all over the world overcome chronic...
Pippa is young athlete who developed excruciating pain while running. The pain was so intense she had to quit the sport she loved. She saw dozens of doctors and endured countless tests and scans but no one could understand or treat her pain. Her dad found videos on...
Cheryl’s story is typical of a patient with chronic nerve pain. She is suffering from pudendal neuralgia which has wreaked havoc on all aspects of her life. She had two surgeries with another surgeon that didn’t work. Then she found Dr. Tim Tollestrup. Dr. Tollestrup...
Dr. Tim Tollestrup explains why back surgery is such a gamble and cannot help patients who have a peripheral nerve problem involving superior cluneal nerves. He also discusses the four different type of patients who present with back pain and why only one of the four...
