Retired physician with a disability fights for the right to get around on a Segway
By RYAN E. SMITH BLADE STAFF WRITER
Dr. Patrick McNamara gets out of his silver minivan and hobbles a few steps, leaning heavily on a homemade wooden cane. There is pain in every awkward movement the 51-year-old makes – until he [...]
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Physician with CRPS/RSD Fights for the Right to get around on a Segway
Posted in CRPS and Health Issues, CRPS and Pain Management, CRPS or Chronic pain awareness, health, tagged Chronic Pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS, disability, Mobility, physician, RSD, RSDS, Segway on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Lent week 2 – Hope, Anger and Courage Reflections
Posted in CRPS Distractions, CRPS and Health Issues, CRPS and Pain Management, CRPS and Workers Compensation, Christianity, Personal Thoughts, health, tagged Chronic Pain, CRPS, RSD, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Christianity, illness, lent, lenten studies, sickness on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
St Augustine once said that:
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage: anger at the way things are, and courage to make them the way they ought to be.
Rewiring Of Brain Responsible For Baffling Chronic Pain
Posted in CRPS and Health Issues, CRPS and Pain Management, tagged awareness, Chronic Pain, Chronic pain awareness, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS, health, Neuropathic pain, pain management, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, research, RSD, RSDS on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the first study to link pain with changes in the brain’s white matter. It will be published November 26 in the journal Neuron.
Everybody Raise Your Hand if U Agree………
Posted in CRPS and Health Issues, health, tagged CRPS, RSD, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, disability, worsening symptoms on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That the medical condition Complex Regional Pain Syndrome DOES YOUR HEAD IN!!!!!
Yes yes……..Aren’t we familiar?? Universally speaking don’t matter what medical condition but if it progresses or worsens…………….do we smile and take it gracefully? Are we unemotional beings?
Without fear, frustration, anger, confusion and saddness and the rest of the rainbow in between??
I know I put [...]
Hi Friends, Readers and Visitors!!
Posted in CRPS and Health Issues, health, tagged Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS, illness, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, RSD on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hello all,
I am having a bad run!! I hope it is over now LOL!
Well I still hadn’t recovered from the Oscar fiasco when I was knocked over by the Gastro! There has been an outbreak here for months and I thought I had escaped it until I find out 2 people had entered my household [...]
Ignorant People………Why do they Still Exist?
Posted in CRPS and Health Issues, CRPS and Pain Management, family/relatives, health, tagged CRPS, RSD, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, RSDS, family, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, inlaws, understanding on August 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hi there people,
I have had CRPS for nearly 5 years (diagnosed approx 3 1/2 yrs ago) you would think I would have everyone around me sorted out!
Well not some of the inlaws or some of my relatives (Nan, aunties, uncles etc). The biggest problem occurs when you can’t avoid the people who think there is nothing wrong with [...]
Currently Recruiting: Dystonia and CRPS Study
Posted in Announcements, CRPS and Health Issues, health, tagged Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS, Dystonia, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, research, RSD, RSDS on July 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For Readers from the United States.
**Seeking Clinical Research Volunteers**
Dystonia and CRPS Study
The NIH/NINDS is sponsoring an outpatient research study assessing patients with Focal Dystonia (FD). FD is a condition where specific movements of the hand trigger acute overactivity in muscles involved in the intended task and activity spreads to adjacent muscles that were supposed to [...]
I’m Back………
Posted in Announcements, CRPS and Health Issues, tagged CRPS, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, RSDS, health, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for disappearing for a short while but here is why,
Besides my CRPS I am suffering extremely bad Rhinitis – the tablets didn’t do anything at the moment!
For the first time in ages I had to suck on ventolin.
Suffering bad constipation – thought you would all like to know that one LOL
Plus I discovered a large lump [...]
Telling It How It Is……………
Posted in CRPS and Health Issues, CRPS and Pain Management, health, tagged Chronic Pain, CRPS, RSD, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, RSDS, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, severe pain, uncontrolled pain on June 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hi everyone,
Just a little update on me since I have been avoiding it for so long!!
My pain levels have been absolutely ridiculous lately. I can get little windows of respite like a couple of hours here and there during the week (thank goodness otherwise…………).
Here is the torture chamber I have been subject to lately:
My neck has been bad, continual [...]
