I explain it for what it is, a complication of a car accident that was overlooked for almost three years resulting in disability. When they ask for more information, I tell them it's comparable to MS.

Years ago MS needed to be explained like RSD is having to be explained now. It's just too sad that the world isn't catching on faster.

In Belgium, Europe our health care system is such that people with the same kind of function loss who have MS get aids, beds, wheelchairs refunded. If the same kind of function loss is called RSD... well, RSD as a pathology is not even in the written laws, so as a result of that: no wheelchairs are refunded, nothing is. So there you are!