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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Paradise
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Paradise
Posts: 855
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As with every "new and improved" author, there is a new flavor and acronyme that arises to describe essentially a variation of the same theme. Call it RSD, causalgia, CRPS I, II or SSTROD (***** stuff that ruins our day - okay, so I made it up), it's all the same!
Like Wilbyfree said, "pain is pain" no matter how you describe it. Different authors over the last 100 years have described essentially the same syndrome, with insignificant clinical variations, so the classifications, catagories, sub-catagories, types, sub-types, etc, etc, is really just a semantical and rhetorical exercise that goes absolutely nowhere in advancing anything! Schwartzman labeled it best in his hallmark paper a few months ago, stating that he simply wasn't going to deliniate between CRPS I or II. Simply just leads us back to where we are at - it hurts!
I think I need a norco now....
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