Copy and paste: "Complex regional pain syndromes: new pathophysiological concepts and therapies" into google and a pdf of the article will be in the search results.

This is a non-pdf format link:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=...6VZF8DskC-dtnA

Some PDFs do not have proper addresses on them anymore.
And some don't play right-- I can't get many to load for me.

So this is a quick view link.

This article is pretty recent too, from March 2010, on Medscape under emergency medicine and neurology:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/articl...inicalPhysical
It's pretty in-depth.

The one that pacugirl posted mentions that a predisposing personality is one of the causes of RSD. My question would be, what personality do we all have in common that we would end up with RSDS. Interesting. I do know one thing we have talked about is Type A people get it. Is this the predisposing personality that they refer to?

I really have trouble with some of the info coming out in these articles. I know others do too that have dealt with it long enough that they know more about it. By having it, we seem to learn more about it then Drs. and researchers.

Ada

You're right Ada.
I know I'm a type A, but then again I'm a a nurse, and a mom and a woman -so I'm used to doing 10 things at once-it's survival! lol :-P
If they mean any other type of personality I might take offense. I mean -isn't that an opinion rather than science, when you start talking about personalities?

I still do 10 things at a time but in a run. I can't sit down to even relax. When I do my brain is still going because I'm thinking of what I need to be doing instead of sitting around. I've always been that way. I think we way overdo and can't seem to sat a pace. Everyone I know around my area that has RSDS is definatetly Type A's.

I am wondering about that disposing personality. I have a feeling it's something else some are talking about.

I noticed too, some think depression is a predisposition of it. I have dealt with depression all of my life but I'm just one person. A lot of people here say they don't and never have dealt with depression.

I was talking to a friend last night in her 70's and we were discussing depression. I feel it is a lot more prevalent now with the economy the way it is. I hear it in people when they are talking and some won't admit to having it. Some people think it's a flaw in them that they don't want to admit to or take meds for. I'm not saying it goes with the RSD though. I've heard it brings on Fibro also.

Here's one that I am thinking about. I wonder if we are having other medical issues going on and another is when we have a lot of major problems going on such as marital issues, money issues, law suits, and other negative things going on in our lives at the time that our body and system are unable to fight back and win when we do get hurt or sick. The stress from fighting all of this makes our body more vulerable to illnesses. This would be part of a predisposing personality. The fact that we can't seem to deal with some issues in a stronger or different way. I might get some slack for this. I don't know what others have gone through in their lives that have the RSDS.

Are you still working? I hope so but most can't with this. I didn't read wheather you were or not. I haven't worked since 91. It didn't start though from me having RSDS. I was getting sick in 87 but managed to keep working until I got Susan through School.

Hope you start feeling better.

Ada

Predisposing personality...... Predisposed at what? Place folks who are physically ill in a square peg and then insult them with innuendos of mental flaws?

Just my comment of "again" those with RSD must have other issues other than RSD because they wouldn't act like they have RSD......just ranting.....

I don't think they mean we have something other then RSDS, they mean there are predisposing things that might cause us to end up with RSDS. As far as the Drs. not believeing we have it, well that's a whole other issue.

As far as the mental flaws, a lot of people do have them but they don't end up with RSDS. A lot of people who end up with RSDS do end up with depression though.

I have yet to see an article that tells the true story of RSDS. The people who have it are telling it in their way as how they have handled it to get it in remission and the Drs. that got them there are jumping on their banwagon as the healers that makes people well with one treatment in most all of these stories. It takes more then their one treatment to get people better.

Ada