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Dubious · 02-26-2010, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Abasaki

I am seeing a lot on here lately posts saying that CRPS--Type 2 is worse than Type 1...

Can anyone provide me with a link or links that show this ????

Every thing that I have found shows the symptoms are the same... the only differences are the diadnostic criteria.

From Patient UK:
http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Comp...ome-(CRPS).htm

CRPS I - formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), this is pain which develops in the absence of identifiable nerve injury.
CRPS II - formerly known as causalgia (literally meaning 'hot pain') develops after injury to a major peripheral nerve.

However, the difference may be academic for patients who experience the same pain in both conditions and for whom treatment options are the same.

Similar information also found at:
RSD HOPE
http://www.rsdhope.org/Showpage.asp?...=3&PGCT_ID=545

RSDSA
http://www.rsdsa.org/2/what_is_rsd_crps/index.html

Just looking for clarification information so that I can better understand for myself and be able to have the information in hand to discuss with my doctors....

Abbie

Going from straight memory here, but that is my recollection too. Symptoms are the same, just no history of nerve injury with type I. I think I recall reading that CRPS II has a tendancy towards SMP where CRPS I has a tendancy more for SIP.

BTW, for the history buffs, you can can find on Google books an online read of the book that the civil war surgeon who discovered causalgia, can't recall his name, which is very interesting!

Wilbyfree · 02-27-2010, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Dubious

Going from straight memory here, but that is my recollection too. Symptoms are the same, just no history of nerve injury with type I. I think I recall reading that CRPS II has a tendancy towards SMP where CRPS I has a tendancy more for SIP.

BTW, for the history buffs, you can can find on Google books an online read of the book that the civil war surgeon who discovered causalgia, can't recall his name, which is very interesting!

Wier Mitchell is his name and yes he has some excellent philosophies, but never a cure. Do read though, it is interesting.

Jeanie

Dubious · 02-28-2010, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Wilbyfree

Wier Mitchell is his name and yes he has some excellent philosophies, but never a cure. Do read though, it is interesting.

Jeanie

Hi,

I thought so too. Not so much that he had much to offer towards cures at least in the late 1800's as it relates to us, but more from the pure real-time discovery by a war-time field surgeon describing what later became CRPS II, a penetrating injury to a nerve! Reading his material doesn't offer anything prospectively as such, but does provide an unbeleivably intersting window into the past discovery of CRPS II, then termed causalgia by it's founder, as it was first described.

I don't know, I guess I found this justly revealing!

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