RSD Videos

One of my biggest "pet peeves" regarding RSD (other than the pain itself) is the fact that no one I love, apart from my mother, can understand what this is. So, in the name of awareness and answering questions, here are links to illustrative Youtube videos. You may notice that the second video says, at the end, "also known as complex regional pain syndrome". CRPS is the more correct term and the one used by the medical community. Yes, it does mean "pain that does not stop, in one area, that we don't understand". I'm sad to say that's an actual diagnosis of an actual syndrome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Qn5rus4Gg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNX33BOpWBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJu4DOPbrT4

These two are a Discovery Health Segment (watch both) about RSD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OgAzmgX28w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNxBe6LiLI&feature=related

This is actually about Ehler Danlos Syndrome, not RSD, but the general message still holds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H4MCI55Y9Q

Why the usual treatment strategies don't work for chronic pain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmdYt0OAJbs&feature=PlayList&p=5E942714B67E8A62&index=2

These next two are about pain in general.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIfohCubP88&feature=PlayList&p=5E942714B67E8A62&index=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qii33KVIl2g&feature=PlayList&p=5E942714B67E8A62&index=1

Enjoy (?) Watch any or all of them, or ignore this coompletely: your choice. Just to reiterate, so I clear up any confusion, RSD and CRPS are the same thing.