Originally Posted by mrsD

There are some papers from Europe suggesting using Vit C for trauma or surgery to the ankle and wrist to avoid RSD/CRPS.

Some clinics used 500mg a day for 50 days and some 1000mg.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19840748

and this one concerning post-operative pain and Vit C:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3629356/

Some of our RSD posters actually do IV infusions of Vit C.
If you search "vitamin C" on our forum here you can find those posts:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum21.html