Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy News

Several years ago, Kayla Smith was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome , a condition characterized by frequent dislocations and slow healing.

Spinal Modulation Inc., designed the Axiuma Spinal Cord Stimulator System specifically to relieve chronic pain experienced by patients suffering from long-term nerve damage following surgery , complex regional pain syndrome , amputation pain, or failed back surgery syndrome .

A fundraiser is being held today to benefit 11 year old Kayla Smith of Plantation.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston attorney-turned-filmmaker Jon Matthews and actress Abby Wathen hope to bring their big-screen dreams home to West Virginia.

Every mum is special - Emily Macdonald and Kate Higgins talk to four of of them ahead of Mother's Day.

Vulvar allodynia is a "super sensitivity of the vulva" which causes normal sensations such as a gentle touch or minimal friction from tight fitting clothes to be exquisitely painful.

FOR almost a decade, doctors told a Townsville woman the jabs of excruciating pain that ripped through her entire body was "just her imagination". They said "nothing was wrong" when she felt burning, numbness and sharp pains in every limb from just combing her hair.

This can be devastating to a patient who is faced with the physical, mental, social, and vocational loss following an upper or lower extremity amputation.

The Kansas Walk, Run & Rock for an RSD/CRPS Cure, set for Saturday in St. Francis, is hoped by organizers to raise awareness of a rare nervous system disease and to build a network of support for those who suffer from it.

Summary: A worker, who was an illegal alien, was injured when his foot was crushed by a forklift.

To that end, Kim Zweygardt, CRNA, of Kansas, is helping to raise awareness and reasearch funding for Regional Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome , a chronic neurological syndrome that causes severe burning pain, pathological changes in bone and skin, excessive sweating, tissue swelling, and extreme sensitivity to touch.