Sweaty Hands Surgery
-ETS is the only method that provide a permanent cure for sweaty hands.
-It is safe and effective.
-Most patients can leave on the same day of the surgery.
-Within a week or less you can resume your normal daily activities, but free of sweaty hands.
Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy, it's a long name but worth all the trouble trying to pronounce it. Abbreviated ETS, this surgical procedure is the answer to STOP sweaty hands. So what does ETS mean? Sympathectomy is a medical term in which the sympathetic chain is cut/clamped to stop its activity.
Why stop the sympathetic chain? Because one of its main functions is controlling your sweat glands. In hyperhidrosis, your sweat glands are overactive and in turn makes you sweat more than needed. However, it is important that you tell your doctor if you from severe cardio respiratory illness, pleural disease, or untreated thyroid diseases. Having these conditions makes you unelligable for the surgery.
Technology is always advancing and thanks to this edoscopic surgery has also made great achievments. This type of surgery, edoscopic, allows surgeons to just make a small insicion and insert small instruments to perform the surgery. Therefore the operation can now be performed on an outpatient basis.
You are placed under general anesthesia durring the surgery, around one hour and after the majority of people who have undergone this procedure are able to walk out of the medical center in about hours after of the surgery. Of course, regular will take about a week to come back to normal and you'll be back to work and free of sweaty hands.
Durring the surgery, the surgeon makes 2 to 3 small insicions below your armpit. In one of these small holes a tiny video camera is placed in order to find the sympathetic chain. Once that is found, in the other small holes the instruments are placed in order to remove the small piece of the nerve that will make a succesful and permanent operation. This of course is done on the other armpit also.
The success rate of ETS is around 85% to 95%. Some people have experienced sweating in other areas of the body after the surgery, such as in the back, legs or just. However they also claim that these side effects are minor compared to the original excessive sweating in the hands.
This procedure is quickly becoming popular as an effective cure for those with hyperhidrosis. You too can benefit from this small surgery and finally be able to live your life to the fullest. Consult with your doctor for more information.