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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is poorly understood by patients, their families, and healthcare professionals. In some cases the condition is mild, in some it is moderate, and in others it is severe.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Related Links
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- Matt's Official Website - www.SetMattFreeoRSD
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- Matt's Story on ABC 6 News Video
- Please take a moment to view this moving ABC 6 News Video. It will move you. This boy needs our help!
Only on ABC 6: North Providence Family Needs Public's Help for Son's Surgery
John Eagan - Story Updated: Jun 19, 2008 at 11:36 AM EDT
Nancy and Russell Irving are pleading to the public to help their son. Their 21-year-old son Matthew has been paralyzed with pain since a routine surgery 5 years ago went horribly wrong. He was later diagnosed with the worst chronic pain disorder imaginable.
Now the boy who excelled in school, earned his black belt in tae-kwon-do, and earned countless awards from the state, is confined to a life of silent suffering.
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Matt and his mother Nancy
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy per Wikipedia
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic progressive disease characterized by severe pain, swelling and changes in the skin. The International Association for the Study of Pain has divided CRPS into two types based on the presence of nerve lesion following the injury.
* Type I, formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), Sudeck's atrophy, reflex neurovascular dystrophy (RND) or algoneurodystrophy, does not have demonstrable nerve lesions.
* Type II, formerly known as causalgia, has evidence of obvious nerve damage.
The cause of this syndrome is currently unknown. Precipitating factors include injury and surgery, although there are documented cases that have no demonstrable injury to the original site.
Books on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
Amazon Price: $28.95 (as of 12/31/2009) 
CRPS: Current Diagnosis And Therapy (Progress in Pain Research and Management, Volume 32)
Amazon Price: $82.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Use team approach for complex regional pain syndromes.(Clinical Rounds): An article from: Family Practice News
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 12/31/2009)
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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - From the Blogosphere
- Meta-Analysis of Independent Research Supports Potential for Oral Salmon ...
- ... calcitonin has shown analgesic action in painful conditions such as phantom limb pain, diabetic neuropathy, complex regional pain syndrome, ...
- Mitch on the long road to recovery
- Mitch, who was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome almost five months ago, suffers crippling pain in his left leg and right arm. ...
- Hotel Blamed for Complications of Apnea
- ... but tripped and hit the palm of his right hand on a nightstand, causing him to develop complex regional pain syndrome, or reflex sympathetic dystrophy. ...
- Chris Perrin needs community help
- Mitch's father Steve Cavanagh said his son was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) this year and was confined to a bed in Royal North Shore ...
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