It is easy for a person to imagine the painful experience of falling off a bicycle and scraping a knee for the first time. What is more difficult is for him/ her to imagine that pain as constant, multiplied on large scale, and not knowing what causes the pain. Unfortunately, patients with CRPS know this experience as one knows their own name. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), is ranked as the most severe form of chronic pain that exists today by the McGill Pain Index. Knowing this leads to the desire for a simple goal: discover the origin of the disease.
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with …show more content…
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves putting a person within a chamber pressurized at two to two and a half atmospheres absolute. For comparison, that is the equivalent of being around forty-five feet underwater. The chamber is then filled with pure oxygen that the person breaths in for about one to two hours. This technique has been connected with a decrease in the body’s prostaglandin and interleukin production. The latter two substances are both involved in the body’s inflammatory response, where runaway production of the two can lead to inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Another one of these successful treatments, a sympathectomy, involves blocking a nerve pathway, through removal of an area connected to the complication. In order to determine if a sympathectomy is an applicable operation, the nerve of interest is injected with a steroid and anesthetic to inhibit functionality. If successful, the method is valid. This treatment has been cited to alleviate patients who exhibit excessive sweating, although, due to what occurs in the operation, a sympathectomy could treat an issue as long as it involves a neural
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with …show more content…
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves putting a person within a chamber pressurized at two to two and a half atmospheres absolute. For comparison, that is the equivalent of being around forty-five feet underwater. The chamber is then filled with pure oxygen that the person breaths in for about one to two hours. This technique has been connected with a decrease in the body’s prostaglandin and interleukin production. The latter two substances are both involved in the body’s inflammatory response, where runaway production of the two can lead to inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Another one of these successful treatments, a sympathectomy, involves blocking a nerve pathway, through removal of an area connected to the complication. In order to determine if a sympathectomy is an applicable operation, the nerve of interest is injected with a steroid and anesthetic to inhibit functionality. If successful, the method is valid. This treatment has been cited to alleviate patients who exhibit excessive sweating, although, due to what occurs in the operation, a sympathectomy could treat an issue as long as it involves a neural