In this short video, Mr Usman Jaffer gives a background on sympathectomy, explains the symptoms which can be treated by sympathectomy and what the procedure involves.
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What do you do in terms of sympathectomy? The operation of sympathectomy, in particular cervical sympathectomy, has been around for many decades. It's had a number of uses where it was found to be potentially helpful. The number of conditions that you can treat with sympathectomy include pain, include facial flushing, and includes excess sweating or hyperhidrosis. What the operation or procedure involves is cutting the sympathetic outflow to the area that you're dealing with. If you're doing an operation for pain in the lower limbs, for instance, because of lack of blood supply, then you would address the sympathetic nervous system which controls the lower limbs in the lower part of the body. If you're addressing the conditions relating to the face or the hands or the armpits or axillae, you would address the sympathetic nervous system in that area. specifically for hyperhidrosis involving the hands or the armpits or the face, the sympathetic chain, which is where the cells of this nervous system are located, just on the inside of the ribs in the chest, so that chain is divided at either the first rib or second rib level most commonly. you
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