Dear Sandra -

Following up on Septmystic's comments, I turn to one of my my favorite website, that of the RSDSA (Refelx Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association) and came up with what I hope are three good pages for you, each with numerous sub-pages.

The first is its "Treatment Guidelines" at http://www.rsds.org/3/clinical_guidelines/index.html There's a lot of material there, once you've opened and printed each one of the pdf files in there. This is basically a small book in it's own right. While perhaps not directly on point, per your request, it's something you should have.

The next page is headed "Resources" and includes a number of articles dealing with workers' comp. and disability claims. While much if not all of this is written around U.S. law, I suspect that 85 to 90% of the stuff regarding claim stratagies will flow across the boarder with complete transparency. And that's here: http://www.rsds.org/4/resources/index.html

Finally, for the best store-house of medical articles that I'm aware of, nothing beats the RSDSA Medical Articles Archive at http://www.rsds.org/2/library/articl...ive/index.html. Among the pieces I would refer you to are:

1. Impairment/Disability
Author: Arnoff GM, Harden N, Stanton-Hicks M, et al.
Title: American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians (AADEP) Position Paper: Complex Regional Pain syndrome I (RSD): Impairment and Disability Issues. Source: Pain Medicine. 2002;3:274-288 and

2. Treatment
Author: Maleki A, LeBel AA, Bennett GJ, Schwartzman RJ.
Title: Patterns of spread in complex regional pain syndrome, type I (reflex sympathetic dystrophy)
Source: Pain 88. 2000.

Just go in and open whatever article you are interested in off of the page.


I hope this is helpful. Good luck.

Mike