This is excellent, and has to be the best explainer on CRPS I’ve ever seen!
Done by Australian pain specialists in 20 minutes, he explains what people have a hard time understanding. How a simple touch can feel like 1,000 needles. How we appear “normal,” but can be trapped in a bed or need a wheelchair.
I often find the most advanced work on CRPS to be overseas. Until the billionaires running America’s health system figure out how to make money on it, none of this makes it mainstream in the U.S. of A.
Did you know that in the Netherlands, they’ve had a standing nationwide protocol to detect CRPS for over a decade now? They revise it every five years. I brought a copy home when I came back.
Caught and aggressively treated right away, it can be reversed, but only in the first year.
I had a friend in a terrible accident, and they openly talked about the protocol to her and how they work to prevent it from happening.
Meanwhile, in America, our government just cut medical research dollars and funding for many rural and critical access hospitals, which will close because of these cuts.