Hi
I also get crps symptoms single sided face and head. This also soon spreads to involve the upper single sided quadrant. However if I use mirror therapy as soon as the symptoms arrive I can keep the problem in the face area and relieve the pain and symptoms - symptoms being nerve firing, pain, hypersensitivity to touch or breeze etc.
I will describe what I do in the hopes it helps you with this.
I use a hinged double mirror make up mirror. I place it against my face so that I can see only one side of my face and the mirror image of my face. The mirrors form a right angle at the hinge. I place the mirror so that one mirror is directly in front of my face and the other is against my center of my mouth to the nose. I can then see in the mirrors what appears to be a complete face.
In my case the pain was eminating from my teeth area. This is why I placed the mirror against my lips. Whilst looking at the image of a whole face (but really 2 halves of the pain free side) I move my mouth and grind my teeth and poke my mouth with a finger. Because this is to my pain free side, it does not hurt. In the mirror I see a whole mouth not hurting. I repeat this several times a day and keep it up till pain resolves. ( a caution - last time I treated this I was getting rid of the pain but as soon as I stopped mirror therapy the pain returned. Turned out I had an abscess on my tooth. So if pain returns, look for a reason other than CRPS/RSD)
What this does is retrain the brain that everything is ok. I'll give you the link here to a picture of the mirror I use. It's on my blog. Under the post of the picture you'll see tags. If you click on the "mirror therapy" tag you'll pull up my other posts and picture about mirror therapy.
You might also like to click on my interview in my profile. This will give you an understand of who I am and why I have travelled this path. Suggest you also look at Dr Lorimer Moseley's interview on the "How to Cope with Pain" website.
http://crps-rsd-a-better-life.blogsp...or-i-used.html
crps/rsd a better life
jeisea
http://www.crps-rsd-a-better-life.blogspot.com