We Can Help Treat Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS Treatment)

Описание: What is complex regional pain syndrome?
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a broad term describing excessive and prolonged pain and inflammation that follows an injury to an arm or leg. CRPS has acute (recent, short-term) and chronic (lasting greater than six months) forms. If you have CRPS you will have changing combinations of spontaneous pain or excess pain that is much greater than normal following something as mild as a touch. Other symptoms include changes in skin color, temperature, and/or swelling on the arm or leg below the site of injury.

Although CRPS improves over time, eventually going away in most people, the severe or prolonged cases are profoundly disabling. Because of the varied symptoms, the fact that symptoms may change over time, and the difficulty finding a positive cause in some cases, CRPS is hard to treat. There is no treatment that rapidly cures CRPS.

Symptoms

Most individuals do not have all of these symptoms, and the number of symptoms typically reduces during recovery.

Unprovoked or spontaneous pain that can be constant or fluctuate with activity—You might feel a “burning” or “pins and needles” sensation, or as if the affected limb was being squeezed. Over time, if nerves remain chronically inflamed, pain can spread to involve most or all of your arm or leg, even if the originally affected area was smaller. In rare cases, pain and other symptoms occur in a matching location on the opposite limb. This “mirror pain” is thought to reflect secondary involvement of spinal cord neurons (nerve cells). Mirror pain is less severe and resolves as the injured nerves recover.
Excess or prolonged pain after use or contact—You may notice an increased sensitivity in the affected area, known as allodynia, in which light touch, normal physical contact, and use is very painful. You also might notice severe or prolonged pain after a mildly painful stimulus such as a pin prick, known as hyperalgesia.
Changes in skin temperature, skin color, or swelling of the affected limb—The injured arm or leg may feel warmer or cooler than the opposite limb. Skin on the affected limb may change color, becoming blotchy, blue, purple, gray, pale, or red. These skin symptoms typically fluctuate as they indicate abnormal blood flow in the area.
Changes in skin texture—Over time, insufficient delivery of oxygen and nutrients can cause skin in your affected limb to change texture. In some cases, it becomes shiny and thin, in others thick and scaly. Avoiding contact or washing painful skin contributes to this build-up.
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About APRI: Dr. Ricardo Alvarado, MD, also known to his patients as “Dr. A”, earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2005. He remained at UTHSC in San Antonio for his post graduate residency training. Soon after completing three years of intensive surgical training, he entered and subsequently completed an Anesthesiology residency as well. Dr. A went on to complete a post residency fellowship in Interventional Pain Management at UTHSC at San Antonio, where he also earned additional advanced track training. Dr. Alvarado is bilingual in English and Spanish helping to ensure his patients know and understand their treatment plan. He specializes in the latest advanced interventional pain management techniques for chronic pain, including traditional fluoroscopic approaches, extensive training in advanced ultrasound guided interventional techniques, spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulator placement, IV infusion therapies, as well as minimally invasive surgical techniques for spinal canal stenosis.

Our goal is to put you back in the driver’s seat of life and stop pain from dictating how you live. Advanced Pain Relief Institute employs a comprehensive and compassionate approach to your care by using our extensive training and skills to tailor a plan specific to your need.


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