Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)

RSD also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is an uncommon chronic neurological condition that usually affects your arms or legs. The key symptom of RSD is continuous, intense pain out of proportion to the severity of the injury, which gets worse rather than better over time. Most experience intense burning or aching pain [...]

Who Gets Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy?

RSD usually follows other musculoskeletal injuries related to motor vehicle accidents, infections, sports trauma, surgery or stress in one’s life at the time of injury. During that time, the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) that control over these various processes is somehow changed as a result of an injury. Women are more likely [...]