The Peripheral Nerve Center at UCSF is comprised of a multidisciplinary team devoted to precisely assessing and addressing often painful and difficult-to-diagnose conditions of the peripheral nervous system. The Precision Spine Center run by the neuroradiology section of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging collaborates closely with the Peripheral Nerve Center and is one of the only centers in the world that routinely offers high-resolution imaging techniques including MR neurography as well as CT, MR and ultrasound image guided injections.
One patient who was eventually diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome, was in constant pain and bed-ridden for 18 months unable to work or take care of himself. “It was so demoralizing going from a healthy athlete to disabled with no medical diagnosis or treatment plan,” the patient wrote in an email to Associate Professor and…
