{"id":2658,"date":"2025-08-22T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:37:34","slug":"the-best-explainer-on-crps-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2025\/08\/22\/the-best-explainer-on-crps-ive-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"the best explainer on CRPS I&#8217;ve ever seen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is excellent, and has to be the best explainer on CRPS I&#8217;ve ever seen! <\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;normal,&#8221; but can be trapped in a bed or need a wheelchair. <\/p>\n<p>I often find the most advanced work on CRPS to be overseas. Until the billionaires running America&#8217;s health system figure out how to make money on it, none of this makes it mainstream in the U.S. of A. <\/p>\n<p>Did you know that in the Netherlands, they&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>Caught and aggressively treated right away, it can be reversed, but only in the first year. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Devastating Pain of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): Causes and Mechanisms Explained\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bp7S5Anp1_0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is excellent, and has to be the best explainer on CRPS I&#8217;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 &#8220;normal,&#8221; but can be trapped in a bed or need a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}