I agree with Mike on the "No pain, no gain belief. I believe research said a few years back also that it just isn't the case.

I had 7 different PT'ers in my almost 4 years of PT and 4 of them were dropped real quick by my Dr. because of the therapy they wanted me to do.

These PT'ers need to know enough about RSD that they can help get the pain down, not multiply it. There are many who don't know just as we run into many Drs. that don't know.

The fact is that the pain might get worse and just not calm down. There is no way I would let a PT'er make me do some of the things they think we should be able to do with RSD.

Muscle relaxers are a good thing but you have to make sure if they are working that you don't start to think you are doing better and overdo. Especially with the P. T.

Hope you start feeling better soon.
Ada