Tori suffered for twelve years with intense Migraines that left her in constant pain, mentally fatigued and unable to focus. Dozens of doctors couldn’t help her and many dismissed her pain, telling her it was all in her head. Then she found Dr. Tim Tollestrup, a...
Many patients still have severe knee pain after knee replacement surgery. There are different reasons why this happens. Sometimes a peripheral nerve is damaged during the knee replacement surgery. Sometimes the knee was never the problem, but there was a peripheral...
Dr. Tollestrup explains his perspective on Selina, a young girl who was in excruciating pain stemming from a thumb injury. Doctors in Canada diagnosed her with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and pushed her to pain management. Nothing helped relieve her pain....
After two failed hip replacements and a third that injured her Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve, Debra had horrible, burning pain from Meralgia Paresthetica. The pain was so bad that no one could touch her leg. She tried many treatments including back surgery but...
Selina is a young girl in excruciating pain from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. It started with a thumb injury. The pain traveled all the way up her arm. She was confined to her room and her arm felt like “it was being cut through with a chainsaw.” She...
In this video, we learn about life-changing surgery for chronic pain as we go inside the operating room with Dr. Tim Tollestrup, a pain-focused, peripheral nerve surgeon. Dr. Tollestrup explains the various surgical procedures he has developed such as piriformis...
