Depression And Injury
CRPS; RSDS; Causalgia - RSD; Shoulder-hand syndrome; Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome; Sudeck's atrophy
Symptoms
The key symptom is pain that:
- Is intense and burning, and is much stronger than would be expected for the type of injury that occurred
- Gets worse, rather than better over time
- Begins at the point of injury, but often spreads to the whole limb, or to the arm or leg on the opposite side of the body
In most cases, CRPS has three stages....
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