Alan Lewis: #algodystrophy #causalgia #chronicpain #complexregionalpainsyndrome #crps #georgeherberttaylor #georgehtaylor #health #healthcare #medicalscience #medicine #movementcure #pain #painsyndrome #physicaltherapy #reflexsympatheticdystrophy #science #swedishmovementcure #swedishmovements :
COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
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I am reading the first United States book on the subject of physical therapy (1860). Check out this sentence and have in mind that the author's use of "invalid" is synonymous with our use of the word, "patient."
"Every one knows how the chronic invalid is tormented with sensations, and often with such as seem to bear but very slight relation to the apparent disease."
Does this sound familiar? CRPS Type 2 would not be described for another four years and Type 1 would have to wait until about the end of the century. Consideration of this sort of thing was brand new in 1860. It may come as no surprise to my fellow CRPS patients that, though enlightened as he was, the author, Dr. George H. Taylor, related this complicated set of sensations to the patient's imagination. Have you ever been told by unknowing people that "it's all in your head"? We've learned one or two things since 1860.
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