For over thirty years, I have been handling cases in which the original traumatic injury evolves into CRPS/RSD. A clinical diagnosis is required which feature a variety of signs and symptoms. You do not have to have every symptom to have CRPS/RSD. Complex regional pain…
Throughout the 30 years I have been representing patients with CRPS/RSD, I have come to appreciate how helpful and comforting a support group is for these folks. Each has his or her own unique experience and methods of coping with the heinous condition. Two women devastated…
Dr. Billy Alexander, an internal medicine physician from West Monroe, Louisiana, took a strong message to the American College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting in late October: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is real. “Surprisingly, some physicians are somewhat skeptical about it,” Dr. Alexander was…
A new study suggests that ketamine may be a safe and effective way to relieve chronic pain in adolescents suffering from a variety of chronic pain conditions, according to a report published by Pain Medicine News. The purpose of the study was to examine clinical…
Aalto University neuroscientists, in collaboration with researchers at Helsinki University Hospital and Harvard Medical School, have found a link between the size of the choroid plexus in the brain and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD). According to a…
The 3rd Annual Fight the Flame 5k is an official time-chipped race and walk to raise awareness and money for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). It scheduled for November 1 at 8:00 a.m. at McAlpine Creek Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. What…
