Could you please help me find actual studies on the following, anyone?? (especially the first one)

-Is RSD caused by psychological issues?

-nerve blocks/ RSD

-ketamine/ RSD

-remission of RSD


Thank you in advance!

If you google, " Dr. Hooshmand's puzzle" no. 13 and no 30 puzzle parts cover blocks and remission. I think there are 137 parts of the puzzle and each one covers different issues of RSD.

I didn't want to post all of what he says on here because there is so much of it.

Some people on here are not a Dr. Hooshmand fan. I have never been to him but I do have his book and I like it a lot. My PCP used it to help take care of my RSD.

I didn't look but I would say there might be some of it that covers Physchological issues of RSD.

If you can't find it let me know and I will PM it to you.

Hope this helps.

Ada

I just googled your terminology
{RSD caused by psychological issues}
and this is what came up-

http://www.google.com/search?q=RSD+c...ient=firefox-a

I'm sorry I misread your post saying you wanted actual studies. Today has been a bad day for me and my brain isn't working right. It never does but today is even worse. LOL I have had to raise my meds and I am a little more tired lately.

Ada

Hello: IMHO psychological issues do not cause RSD, but RSD can cause psycholocical issues. Who wouldn't have problems dealing with constant pain, losing ones abilities to function, to work, to play, and in some cases losing ones home, job, family, and friends? Regards, Lil

I totally agree!! In fact, I could not agree more! We are going to go through a hard time living in constant pain, trying to go on with life.

I want to see actual studies stating that they cannot prove that RSD is caused by psychological issues.

In children/ teens especially, researchers say that "psychological stress is a major role in developing RSD"... I totally DO NOT agree with such statements. So, I am looking for researchers/ studies that state that it is NOT a psychological condition.

Thanks for the help, everyone.

Oh, Ada, it's okay... I am going to read some more of Dr H.'s puzzles, and see if he says anything I am looking for. He is a real Dr./ researcher. Personally, I am a "Dr Hooshmand fan" Wish I lived in Florida, and could see the Dr. he referrs you to. I am going to try calling that Dr. anyways. Thanks!

Best free place to find actual studies is the US National Institutes of Health medical library. It's called PubMed
For Is RSD caused by psychological issues? enter the search term Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/*psychology
- nerve blocks/RSD try the search term "Nerve Block"[MeSH] AND "Complex Regional Pain Syndromes"[MeSH] and the partially overlapping "Nerve Block"[MeSH] AND "Complex Regional Pain Syndromes"[MeSH]
- ketamine/ RSD enter the search term Complex Regional Pain Syndromes AND ketamine

Dear IHH -

You've probable seen this before, but from where I am the best single source of free full-text studies is the collection of peer reviewed medical studies at the RSDSA Medical Articles Archive page, which you can link to here: http://www.rsds.org/2/library/articl...ive/index.html (free Adobe Reader required). It's really a very impressive collection and I would urge you to check it out if you haven't done do already.

Mike

Hello IHH

I'll give you what I have in my folders:
I had two on ketamine http://rsdresearch.com/page4.html
and
www.rsds.org/4/stories/focus_on_schwartzman.html

Several research studies on these sites
www.rsds.org/3/research/index.html

www.rsdfoundation.org/index2.html

www.rsds.org/3/research/evidence_report_2.html

Research on Spread www.rsds.org/3/research/evidence_report_1.html

What Research is being done? (NIH) http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/r..._dystrophy.htm

learn about the doctors, hospitals, and medical centers that are at the leading edge in conducting clinical research about RSD.
Each guide has current and relevant RSD research organized into categories for easy reading. Free updates are provided for 1 year.
More Information on the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Guidebook
http://www.medifocus.com/znr015.php?assoc=rsdsmn.org

Another interesting study (Investigation of Human Brain Mechanisms) http://www.rsds.org/3/research/rsdsa...ants_2005.html

NIH Clinical trials
http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/ter...ain%20Syndrome

I do hope some of these come up and are useful to you.
Hope

This article about NMDA might interest Michael...

http://www.painonline.com/mt-archive...it_togeth.html


Changes in CSF Cytokine levels in RSD http://www.rsds.org/2/library/articl.../alexander.pdf


Anne Louise Oaklander http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/...6/01-pain.html

Oaklander,... assistant professor of anesthesiology and neurology at Harvard Medical School, removed pinhead-size skin samples that allowed her to count how many nerves are working in small areas of skin. She found dramatic, long-lasting loss of nerve endings in areas previously affected by shingles. That was expected. But when her team checked skin from unaffected areas directly opposite the shingles outbreak, they were startled to see half the nerve endings had been lost there as well.

What is more, the greater the loss of nerves on the unaffected side, the more pain patients felt on the side previously affected with shingles. Oaklander also has observed this crossover effect in patients with problems other than shingles. "You see it in all kinds of injuries - cut fingers, sprained ankles, broken legs," she notes. "We intend to investigate this ...crossover pain is like phantom pain, the stabbing, burning sensation people feel in limbs that are no longer there because of amputation"

Why wasn't crossover damage found before? "Because scientists and doctors never looked for it," Oaklander answers. "It doesn't fit in with our current understanding of how the body works. You don't see it because you don't look for it."

While her research was done in lab rats, Oaklander says it's already benefiting pain patients simply by proving their pain is not just in their heads. "We really showed hardcore anatomical data, with facts and numbers, to prove this is a real phenomenon," she says. Oaklander's research was published in the journal Annals of Neurology, May, 2004 and was funded by the N.I.H.(National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)