Posts tagged Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome

• One Man's Pain......

  Laura Mackie | January 31, 2007 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  ......Is another man's pleasure. Well at least as far as Jeffrey Mogil of the University of Illinois is concerned. More accurately, with the results of 62 different studies behind him, Mogil says that scientists now know that people really do feel pain differently when confronted by the same stimulus. The answer, it appears, can be found in the human genome. The search goes on within the...

• More than the sum of its parts: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

  Laura Mackie | November 13, 2006 11:38 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Sometimes overcoming the established prejudice of defense doctors, attorneys and insurance companies against the so-called malingerer presents itself as the most difficult part of pre-trial negotiations. Potential pre-trial settlements can easily be de-railed by defense usage of terms such as 'secondary gain' and 'psychogenic' in discussing diagnosis, prognosis and residuals. Questioning a...

• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Reference Book

  Laura Mackie | November 09, 2006 8:47 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSD) is a malfunction of the nervous system that affects up to 1.2 million Americans.A disorder that is often poorly understood by medical professionals as well as patients and their families, this life altering affliction develops in response to an event, such as an accident or medical procedure, that the body...

• Arthritis Foundation publishes new Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy FAQ

  Ed Smith | October 29, 2006 11:32 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  RSDS or Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome is an abnormality of the central nervous system which often results from relatively minor trauma. It is also known by many other terms including causalgia, Sudeck's atrophy, complex regional pain syndrome and shoulder-hand syndrome.Whatever name it is called by, the main symptom is a severe burning pain often accompanied by limited movement of an...

• New Documentary about RSD

  Ed Smith | October 17, 2006 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A new documentary is being produced to help bring awareness of RSD to the medical community. The film will show the experience of living with an RSD patient and the severe impact it has on the famiy's of RSD victims. RSD patients are interviewed along with their families, doctors, therapists and other caregivers.The documentary is being produced now and the hope is to assist patients, as well as...

• Chronic Pain - RSD Information Expo

  Ed Smith | October 16, 2006 2:22 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On November 18, 2006, Noon-3:00 PM, a conference on Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) will be Held in the Stained Glass Lobby of St Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center 350 W Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ.Reflex Sympathetic Distrophy is a rare nerve disease where nerves send constant pain signals to the brain even after the original injury has healed. Between 200,000 and 1.2 Million American suffer...

• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

  Ed Smith | October 16, 2006 1:37 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It's hard to imagine a minor injury, like an ankle sprain, turning into a lifetime of pain. But it's happening to as many as one million Americans. It's a disease called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and doctors don't know what causes it or how to cure it. Complex regional pain syndrome can be triggered by even the slightest injury to nerves or nerve endings.According to Dr.Robert Schwartzman,...