RSD - Nothing Left To Chance

Whether you call it Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome or Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome - it's still a hideous soul-sucking disease.

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Clinical drug trial looking for participants

RSD-CRPS
(REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY-COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME)

NEW CLINICAL DRUG TRIAL IN MANHATTAN

If you have received a diagnosis of RSD or CRPS, you may be eligible to participate in a study of a potentially new treatment. To assess your study eligibility, you will be asked the following questions regarding your painful limb:
o Have you had continuing pain for at least one month?
o Have you experienced increased skin sensitivity to touch or clothing?
o Has your skin felt especially cold or especially warm?
o Has the skin color changed?
o Has there been swelling or unusual sweating?
o Has there been any impairment in the range of motion of your affected joints (eg, fingers, wrist, ankle, foot)?
o Has there been any abnormal change in the skin, nails or hair?

For more information, please contact the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care,
Beth Israel Medical Center, NY.
Call JE at: 1-212-844-1829
or visit :
www.stoppain.org

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