How to Manage Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Managing complex regional pain syndrome is not difficult but it does take time to get this chronic pain under control. In this syndrome, high levels of nerve impulses are sent to an injured site, creating more pain, swelling, or redness than is normally found. While there is no cure presently, there are ways to manage this pain and that is the focus here.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Desire to manage the pain

How to Manage Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

1. Discuss with your doctor about your pain levels, he will offer a mixture of measures, which have helped others with this pain. These measures include physical therapy, psychotherapy and, of course, medicines.

2. Attend all appointments and therapy sessions as prescribed by your doctor, as she knows what is best for you and the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome. Living with chronic pain is depressing and your doctor wants you to get all the help you can to begin on the road to recovery this is why attending the psychotherapy sessions along with the other therapies will make you feel better quicker.

3. Keep a pain journal, making detailed entries about daily pain levels as well as medications, therapies and other important information. Keeping a journal will show you what is working for your particular case and what is not.

4. Take this journal to the hospital or doctor's office with you on each visit and write down her advice. If the therapies already mentioned here do not seem to offer enough help, your doctor may want to try nerve blocks, spinal cord stimulation, or a drug pump implanted in your body that delivers medicines into the spinal fluid.

Resources

• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

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