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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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VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY
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My lower legs swell and this swelling is to be associated with a neurologic condition, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, also known by the fantastically worse, newer name, CRPS. So, I searched on the question of whether Trump's venous insuffiency could stem from a neuroolgic cause. The answer I got is not to my satisfaction; but it interests me and it may interest a few other people out there. The results of my search are in the attachment. The passage at the page break which got somewhat mangled says,

CCSVI may lead to inflammation at the blood-brain barrier and disrupt the glymphatic system

[Google AI is trendy but wrong. "Neurologic" is the correct word in this usage. The American Neurological Association has a style guide(!) for writers which I checked and Google AI evidently didn't.]