Kathy and Diane,
I just want to share this short story about my first orthopedic visit.
I completely snapped my left arm in two just above the elbow up in NYC area. Spent a week up there in a hospital were a rod was placed between my shoulder and elbow. Three days later I was sent home. WC sent me to see this doctor for follow up and by that time RSD had begun in my wrist and hand. At my first visit my hand was beginning to claw. (This is the funny part) At first he was not a believer of RSD but when he tried to straighten my fingers the pain was so intense that out of a reaction I used my right hand and shoved him up against the wall. (This is were you laugh!).
Since that episode he's read up on RSD and has become rather sympathetic to my pain.
Some doctors just don't understand RSD because they've never dealt with it.
I just thought you'd like the story...