While early diagnosis and treatment are needed to provide relief, they do not guarantee a cure. Others have had remissions that suggest cure, only to have the condition return months or years later. It appears that RSDS patients are rarely cured, and are subject to erratic patterns of remissions and exacerbations. Hopefully, this vigilance and these interventions will contribute to more positive outcomes for those afflicted with this devastating, painful, and disabling syndrome. Pain is described as severe, burning, and unrelenting.
Course is unpredictable and can migrate to other body parts.
Characterized by remissions and exacerbations. Med Surg Nurs . Dangel T. Chronic pain management with children. Hooshmand H. Chronic pain. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy prevention and management.