Awwww, so sorry you are having to go through all this. You are too nice a person for such bad stuff.

Wish I had some answers for you. Glad the docs are putting their heads together in your behalf. I hope they come up with a good solution for what ails Ali.

Sounds like a really icky place to be with the PT being painful (when it is not???? Seriously, someone needs to invent a PT regimen that you do painlessly, from your couch, while watching Telly and eating ice-cream...) and not too effective yet. Hopefully it will work, and if need be, the hospital stay with the intensive work would. I've never been through such an intensive thing for RSD, as the only intensive PT I'd had was when I was recovering from my spine surgery and needed to learn to sit, stand, walk, get in and out of the tub, put clothes on, get clothes off...go up and down stairs and other basics. But it wasn't for the RSD proper. In fact, we didn't know at the time that I even had RSD. I do hear, however, that this kind of therapy can be helpful, and I'll be sending you good vibes and extra-special good wishes. Hang in there!
Annie