This is a cogent explanation of a complex syndrome and the need for a multidisciplinary approach. But it doesnot deal with discovering the ROOT CAUSE, and so addresses only symptom relief. This why I continue to refer to our medical ‘system’ as SICK CARE rather than Healthcare.
Symptom management is not enough. Until we understand and can delineate a root cause - even if multidimensional, multisystemic - such approaches only manage symptoms, but change nothing for patients. And that doesn’t even account for negative effects of pharmaceuticals that can make matters worse in the long run.
As someone who has lived with chronic pain long after the structural damage was healed, reading this felt incredibly validating. I especially love the focus on neuroplasticity and retraining the brain. More and more research finds this fascinating phenomena as a curable option for various sicknesses. Articles like this focus on awareness and diagnosis, and I'm here for it! Comprehensive breakdowns of CRPS and similarly less-known diseases like it lay things out so clearly so that patients can feel seen, heard and less confused. I'm so happy to say that early recognition of my CPP of over 3 years was fully cured in just 3 months of Pain Reprocessing Therapy, thanks to Lin Health. The battle is daily, but so is the research. Seeing the shift toward functional neurology and treating the whole nervous system gives many so much hope for the future. This article brings much-needed light to a very dark and misunderstood condition. Excellent piece.
Last weeks I met four «sufferers « no longer suffering after starting frequent Vitamin B 12 shots. During a period of some months of three B12 Hydroxocobalamin injektions a week, the CRPS and other chronic pains virtually disappeared, and dropping one or two injection, it would start to reemerge……
My wife has struggled with this for 11 years. It's a bad disease. I've watched her quality of life go down as we have moved from one attempted treatment after another. She recently did great with a trial spinal cord stimulator. We are waiting for insurance approval for the permanent device. First pain relief she has had in these many years.
Is this the same as polyneuropathy ?
This is a cogent explanation of a complex syndrome and the need for a multidisciplinary approach. But it doesnot deal with discovering the ROOT CAUSE, and so addresses only symptom relief. This why I continue to refer to our medical ‘system’ as SICK CARE rather than Healthcare.
Symptom management is not enough. Until we understand and can delineate a root cause - even if multidimensional, multisystemic - such approaches only manage symptoms, but change nothing for patients. And that doesn’t even account for negative effects of pharmaceuticals that can make matters worse in the long run.
As someone who has lived with chronic pain long after the structural damage was healed, reading this felt incredibly validating. I especially love the focus on neuroplasticity and retraining the brain. More and more research finds this fascinating phenomena as a curable option for various sicknesses. Articles like this focus on awareness and diagnosis, and I'm here for it! Comprehensive breakdowns of CRPS and similarly less-known diseases like it lay things out so clearly so that patients can feel seen, heard and less confused. I'm so happy to say that early recognition of my CPP of over 3 years was fully cured in just 3 months of Pain Reprocessing Therapy, thanks to Lin Health. The battle is daily, but so is the research. Seeing the shift toward functional neurology and treating the whole nervous system gives many so much hope for the future. This article brings much-needed light to a very dark and misunderstood condition. Excellent piece.
I've been curious: what do you think about psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology (PNIE)?
Last weeks I met four «sufferers « no longer suffering after starting frequent Vitamin B 12 shots. During a period of some months of three B12 Hydroxocobalamin injektions a week, the CRPS and other chronic pains virtually disappeared, and dropping one or two injection, it would start to reemerge……
My wife has struggled with this for 11 years. It's a bad disease. I've watched her quality of life go down as we have moved from one attempted treatment after another. She recently did great with a trial spinal cord stimulator. We are waiting for insurance approval for the permanent device. First pain relief she has had in these many years.