CRPS RSD Awareness World of Fire & Ice Rack Card

Descriptions of how it "feels" to live with RSD/CRPS have been translated into graphic form in the hope it will help others understand what it's like to exist in our world. Hidden beneath the surface of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) If you want to know what it feels like to live with this condition . . . the answer can be found in CRPS / RSD Awareness World of Fire & Ice Graphics. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) aka Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by severe and relentless pain that affects between 200,000 and 1.2 million Americans & over 5 million worldwide. CRPS was first documented in the United States during the Civil War. It was named Causalgia due to the intense burning pain suffered by soldiers long after the pain from the healed wound should have diminished. The name has changed many times over the years, but, regrettably there is still no cure. Nor, is there an effect treatment for all patients with the condition.