I will just make a speculation, here. You are correct that in true RSD, the injury is healed but the pain remains - many times more pain than with the original injury.

If the original injury was something like a joint, it may be vulnerable to another injury. You see this in athletes all of the time. Once injured, they are always prone to getting the same injury again.

With RSD, the next time you injure the same area it is possible for the pain to be even more severe than for the general population.

I hesitate to put words in someone's mouth, but I don't think SandyS was implying that your daughter was particularly fragile. But she should probably take slightly more precautions to avoid a repeat.

Mike