Similar issue with my shoulder. A second opinion doc said I desperately need a capsular relese but wouldn't touch me without a 6 month period of no-CRPS symptoms. I can't go one day withouth them! Third opinion doc said I need the surgery, he would do it, but there is a significant chance that it could flare my CRPS to the worst day prior to my stellate blocks when I had uncontrollable pain. My surgeon hasn't even brought it up!