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New!
New Ticket to Work Regulations Create Exciting New Opportunities
Searching for a pain specialist or pain clinic in your area?
The Dannemiller Foundation has compiled for your use a list of hundreds of pain specialists and pain clinics from all over the globe.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Diagnostic Tests
Suicide Survivor Support Resources
Financial resource directory
In Pain, Out of Work and Can't Pay the
Bills
This resource directory for People With CRPS covers government
assistance programs; free medicines for those who can't afford
them; clinical trials, food stamps, and other ideas for those
who suffer financially from the effects of CRPS.
Brochures
CRPS
and Sport Injuries: Prevention is the Name of the Game
This brochure
discusses the kinds of injuries and even surgeries that
may lead to CRPS.
Helping
Children/Youth With CRPS Succeed in School
A guide for teachers, parents, and school administrators on
accommodating the special needs of children with CRPS.
Telltale
Signs of CRPS HandiCard
A two-sided card with pain scale on one side and signs of
CRPS on the other. To order a copy of the free laminated
card, please send your name and address to RSDSA, 99 Cherry
St., Milford, CT 06460.
Recognizing,
Understanding, and Treating CRPS
Recently revised,
this brochure details the signs and symptoms of CRPS and
presents some treatment options.
Treating
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Guide for Therapy
A new brochure on treating CRPS from an occupational therapist.
Hospital
Protocols for the CRPS patient: Handle With Care!
A
guide
for patients and hospital staff to manage people with CRPS
during their stay in the hospital.
Awareness Posters
Our awareness poster can be downloaded
and printed from your computer in two sizes: 8 1/2" x
11" or 11"x 17". For your convenience we have
formatted it in black and white and color, for those of you
who have color printers. The posters are in a pdf format.
Books
Living With RSDS, by Peter Moskovitz, MD and Linda
Lang. To read a review, click here. To order a copy, click here.
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Medifocus
Guide to Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy 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. |
Articles
Legal
Finding a Lawyer for a Workers' Compensation Case
Finding a Lawyer for a Social Security Disability Case
How to Avoid Firing Your Lawyer
Finding a Physician
Finding a CRPS Specialist
By Alfie C. Burns, President,
RSDSA-CA
Finding a CRPS Specialist: Helpful Websites
Searching for a pain specialist or pain clinic in your area?
The Dannemiller Foundation has compiled for your use a list of hundreds of pain specialists and pain clinics from all over the globe.
Talking with Subhash Jain, MD, about Pelvic Pain: Pain Medicine with Compassion
From the Summer 2006 Issue of The Pain Practitioner
Social Security, Workers Compensation, and Insurance
Dear Jeanne: Social Security Medical Examination
New Ticket to Work Regulations Create Exciting New Opportunities
How Jersey Fails Injured Workers
The Basics of Health Insurance and Appeals
Coverage for all through education
Book Review: Persistence
is Power
From RSDSA Review. Winter 2007.
Life Care Plans
By Steve Goren, Esq.
The Social Security Ruling on CRPS and what it means for you
How to Lose Your Case in 12
Easy Steps
By R. Steven Shisler, Esq.
Tactics for SS Disability
By Debra Sjolseth
What do do When You Lose Your Benefits Based on an "Independent Medical Examination"
Workers' Compensation 101: An Overview
of WC for Employees With Work-related CRPS
By R. Steven Shisler, Esq.
Work After Disability
By Jeffrey A. Rabin, Esq.
Advocacy
Your Pain, Your Rights: Dealing with Your Physician and Your Hospital
You can get involved!
Support
HR 2994, the National Pain Care Policy Act
The first comprehensive legislation with a multidisciplinary
approach to managing pain. HR 2994 is a response to the Congressionally-declared
Decade of Pain.
Helpful websites
CRPS
websites
A number of sites that promote awareness, education, and communication
among the community. Contains chat rooms and online support groups.
Non-CRPS websites
Various sites for the pain community.
Updated August 25, 2008
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