My niece just had an amazing pain reduction therapy called Calmare or Scrambler therapy for her CRPS/RSD. While we were there, we learned that it has provided a huge pain reduction for many CRPS/RSD sufferers. It is at that place where some people are starting to hear about it, but I wish it was more widely known and available due to its extraordinary results in reducing pain and the circulation and temperature issues that come with CRPS. My niece, Sarah, went from a pain level 8 to a 0 after 2 1/2 weeks, and has none of the color changes and skin temperature issues that she used to. After a week, she was just enjoying the feel of cold water on her foot because it finally felt "cold" again instead of burning! We would watch her just touch her leg repeatedly just to see what "touch" felt like again.

It is non invasive (instead of the spinal cord stimulator that she was going to be having if it didn't work), and you can usually identify if it will work or not in the first one or two sessions. This is one of those "too good to be true" sounding therapies, but it WAS true, at least for us! We owe a big thanks to the person who posted something about it in this chat room!

I am a science teacher, and spent hundreds of hours researching therapies for CRPS/RSD before I even came across the therapy name. After that, I spent a lot of time researching the scientific trials (great results, peer reviewed, documented and published in major pain journals), the use of the therapy in all four branches of the armed forces (because it is so effective in drug-free pain reduction, the government even bought more of the devices used), and finding locations that have good success working with the RSD/CRPS population.

We saw Dr. Michael Cooney in New Jersey, and he and his staff were awesome! They were kind, funny and helpful. You can find out more about it at his homepage - *edit* and you can also see some of his patients talking about it on youtube.

Good luck to all of you who are going through this - you are truly amazing in how you cope with something so difficult - blessings to you all!