RSDSA Review Archive
Resource Directory: In Pain, Out of Work, and Can't Pay the
Bills
This directory offers advice to those who suffer financial
hardship as a result of their pain.
Brochures and Cards
CRPS
and Sport Injuries: Prevention is the Name of the Game
discusses kinds of injuries that may lead to CRPS.
Helping
Children/Youth With CRPS Succeed in School
This brochure is designed to help schools accommodate
the special needs of children with CRPS is now available online.
Hospital
Protocol for the CRPS Patient: Handle With Care!
The document goes lists over two dozen specific suggestions
for a care plan in areas including: setting up the patient
room, performing medical procedures, taking blood pressure
and pulse rate, transporting, feeding, and identifying CRPS
patients.
"I Have CRPS" HandiCard
This tri-fold card describes CRPS from the point of view of a person with the syndrome and some suggestions on how others might help. One card is free to members (additional cards are .75 each), non-members pay $1 each. Please contact the home office.
Pediatric CRPS Tri-Fold Brochure
This brochure offers information and resources for the family and friends of youth with CRPS and those who want to help.
Recognizing,
Understanding, and Treating CRPS
This brochure details the signs and symptoms of CRPS and
presents some treatment options.
Take Flight With Hope: Stories of Hope and Transformation
This brochure offers an array of patient stories, and as Executive Director Jim Broatch, MSW, writes "People make changes, they move forward, they live lives they never imagined they could or would. CRPS brings huge losses, but, as you will read, there are significant gains as well."
Single copies are available free for our members. Additional copies are available for $2 (members) and $3 (non-members).
"Telltale
Signs of CRPS" HandiCard
To assist healthcare
providers, patients, and families to better diagnose CRPS,
RSDSA has, with its Scientific Advisory Board, developed and
produced a wallet-sized, 2-sided laminated card with the 11
Telltale Signs of CRPS on one side and a pain scale on
the other. Cards are available free of charge by calling 877.662.7737 or sending an e-mail to info@rsds.org. Please include
your postal address with your request.
Treating Complex
Regional Pain Syndrome: A Guide for Therapy
Brochure on treating CRPS from an occupational therapist.
Books
Medifocus
Guide to Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome
A resource guide for the person with CRPS. Each guide has current
and relevant CRPS research organized into categories for easy
reading. Free updates are provided for 1 year.
Living with RSDS, written by RSDSA board members Linda
Lang and Peter Moskovitz, MD, has been published by New Harbinger
Publications, Inc. The 238-page book is the only publication
of its kind dedicated to the challenges patients with CRPS
face. It includes patient stories and medical information.
The book is available from RSDSA for $17. Note: all of the
authors' proceeds will be donated to RSDSA. Click
here for order information.
Physical and Occupational Therapy Publications
and Articles
For more PT/OT Resources, click here.
Treating Complex
Regional Pain Syndrome: A Guide for Therapy
A brochure
on treating CRPS from an occupational therapist.
CRPS and
Sport Injuries: Prevention is the Name of the Game
This brochure
discusses kinds of injuries that may lead to CRPS.
Desensitization
Aquatic Therapy:
Should You Fear to Tread...Water?
Does CRPS Spread?
Clinical
Treatment Guidelines
Updated
August 25, 2008
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