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Old 03-02-2018, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by murrayg View Post

I would love to hear from other pilots out there who have been affected.

Thanks

And you get.... (Crickets)


Not exactly a lot of support for your case, but why should there be? Even in diabetics the prevalence of ulnar neuropathy is only about 2%. And 95% of those do fine with medical or - more rarely - surgical care. So how many people do you think fly for your airline on the same equipment? What do you think the probability of you finding still symptomatic people out of a group that small who do NOT have diabetes?

I hope your surgeon is better at cutting and your lawyer is better at ambulance chasing than either of them are at statistics if they put you up to this nonsense. The probability of even getting a valid sample size polling on a site like this for a condition so uncommon in the polled group is damn near insurmountable. Hopefully, your surgeon and lawyer know that and did not put you up to this. If either of the actually suggested this course of action,ignore them and find a competent biostatisticians who will tell you after even the most cursory look that you can't get there from here.
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Old 03-04-2018, 11:53 PM
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Amen......oh and where's my free stuff?
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Old 03-06-2018, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by murrayg View Post
Radial Gal and Sailing Fun,

Thanks for the inputs. However, I started this thread to see if others out there are similarly affected, not to get inputs regarding neurology. I think I was clear in stating that the attending surgeon was a renowned neurosurgeon, in fact he is considered to be the best in the country. Based on an in-depth assessment he feels the cause is the armrest.

I would love to hear from other pilots out there who have been affected.

Thanks

I had the same issue a while back. I stopped using the arm rest and it cleared up in a few months. Sounds like you may be past that point. It’s worth a try before you have invasive surgery though. If you haven’t I’d give it a few months.
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