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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome
Posted August 20th, 2009 by allen_stovall
What is Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome?
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome is also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
Although research is ongoing, there is no cure for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome. Relief through Acupuncture and herbal medicines may hold a promising future.
Opioids and narcotic based drugs have little effect on the pain receptors of many individuals. In cases of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome this seems to be the case.
This syndrome is not fatal, however, the chronic pain and depression lead many sufferers to suicide.
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain condition. The key symptom of CRPS is continuous, intense pain out of proportion to the severity of the injury, which gets worse rather than better over time. CRPS most often affects one of the arms, legs, hands, or feet. Often the pain spreads to include the entire arm or leg. Typical features include dramatic changes in the color and temperature of the skin over the affected limb or body part, accompanied by intense burning pain, skin sensitivity, sweating, and swelling. Doctors aren’t sure what causes CRPS. In some cases the sympathetic nervous system plays an important role in sustaining the pain. Another theory is that CRPS is caused by a triggering of the immune response, which leads to the characteristic inflammatory symptoms of redness, warmth, and swelling in the affected area.
Is there any treatment?
Because there is no cure for CRPS, treatment is aimed at relieving painful symptoms. Doctors may prescribe topical analgesics, antidepressants, corticosteroids, and opioids to relieve pain. However, no single drug or combination of drugs has produced consistent long-lasting improvement in symptoms. Other treatments may include physical therapy, sympathetic nerve block, spinal cord stimulation, and intrathecal drug pumps to deliver opioids and local anesthetic agents via the spinal cord.
Because opioids can be ineffective in Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome, Neuro-Acupuncture and Electo-Acupuncture may help significantly. With the addition of herbal pain formulas a natural pain management therapy may be found.
What is the prognosis?
The prognosis for CRPS varies from person to person. Spontaneous remission from symptoms occurs in certain individuals. Others can have unremitting pain and crippling, irreversible changes in spite of treatment.
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome is a name, it is a set of symptoms. It is imprtant to remember that it is the patient and not the symptoms that is to be treated.
The body seeks homeostasis. In observing what is happening to the body, the physician must also ask why?
Classical Five-Element Acupuncture in San Diego seeks to answer this question with every treatment.
If you are suffering with chronic pain, please let us help.
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