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Originally Posted by frogga
Hey LisaThe other thing I thought of was hot wax - this was something the physios used to do to try and calm down the spasms - they place your hands into warm wax and then peel it off. Stretching is something that is really important with RSD/ dystonic spasms otherwise the joints set like that.. (that's happened to my feet and ankles) and it's NOT good.. I know that stretching is agony - but even once a day is better than nothing!
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Thank you Frogga. Others have mentioned the hot wax to me also. But that scares me. I'm SO sensitive to temp changes, that at PT they were AMAZED that I could tell the difference with only one degree of change. They would do that with me with the water. They would check the swelling of my hands by filling a container with water and having me insert my hand into it and measuring how much water came out a spout. If that water was not a precise temperature, it was PAINFUL to me. They figured out the temp it had to be, and started getting the containers ready before I got there, cuz it had to be exact. So the wax scares me. Anything not "room temperature" is painful. Which is probably why my pain doc keeps blaming "the weather" on all my issues.
Which reminds me. We've been pretty okay weather wise the past couple of days...and now we're supposed to have a big storm over the weekend. YECK!
So...can I borrow a 2 x 4 to smack my pain doc upside the head on monday????
Thank you so much.