benraycamp0 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:32 pm
Understood the reservations about traveling, but PN surgery is a very rare surgery worldwide. I would guess Dr. Echo is only doing these a couple times a month, if that. I would absolutely ask him this to see his volume. You want a surgeon who is doing 1-3 PN surgeries every week on average for years and years. If he’s only doing it once or twice a month, I’d really really really really (cannot emphasize this enough) reconsider.
Dr. Echo is a neurosurgeon so he’s operating on many parts of the body. Those surgeries are much much much more common than PN so double check exactly where all those reviews come from. For example I wouldn’t be surprised if out of 100 reviews he gets, only 1 was even related to a PN surgery and the rest are the more typical hand, knee, foot etc. procedures
I’m just drawing up some cautions to think about. I don’t know much about Dr. Echo beyond 1 negative patient testimonial, but we also don’t have many Internet testimonials or even PN literature/videos from him so some skepticism is warranted.
For Dr. Popeney and Dr. Skaribas - they don’t do surgeries. Popeney can help with medications and EMG testing and assist in navigating with other physicians. Skaribas is excellent for any nerve block or injection you want to try. Beyond that, they can’t help more than that
Yeah, one of the few negative reviews I found about Dr. Echo was something about "he wouldn't look at my pictures." I'm assuming that refers to breast implants!
