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Welcome from RSDSA's Executive Director, James Broatch, MSW

In Pain and Agonizing Over the Bills
Our newly revised edition of RSDSA's financial services directory is available. Click here to read and download.

Rehabilitation of CRPS: Principles and Practice
September 20, 2012, JW Marriott Desert Ridge, Phoenix, Arizona
This is for clinicians only. Candida McCabe, MSc, PhD, RGN, and Jenny Lewis, PhD, from Bath, England, will teach you how to do mirror box therapy and graded imagery, two novel, non-pharmaceutical methods to treat CRPS. There is a 50% reduction in the regisitration fee for RSDSA members. Make sure and put RSDSA in the promo code to receive the special rate.

Quick Flicks:
Mary Beth Kenny Ludington, Patient Representative and Vice President, and Jim Broatch, Executive Director, share some quick thoughts with you.

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RSDSA VIDEOS
You can now download and view all of the presentations from the October workshop on Imaging Neuroinflammation and Neuropathic Pain. The link will take you to the RSDSA YouTube channel.

CRPS Therapies: Clinicians Share Their Expertise

Call 877-662-7737 to order your copy. Copies are available for people with CRPS for a good-will donation and for $15 for a health care professional.

On May 11-12, 2012 TREND sponsored a 2-day international Symposium, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Current State of the Art held in Linden, NL. The RSDSA Board of Directors approved a grant to film the 2-day Symposium. Click Here to view the videos. The login information to view the videos is username: rsdsa and password: bhv2012.

Suicide and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
On June 23, 2012, Jill Harkany-Friedman, PhD, spoke to the RSDSA Board of Directors and invited guests on the topic of CRPS and Suicide Prevention. Dr. Harkany-Friedman is the Senior Director of Research and Prevention for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). RSDSA asked Dr. Harkany-Friedman to speak because of recent suicides in the CRPS community. She assured us that although most individuals have fleeting thoughts of ending one’s life, suicide is relatively rare (12 out of 100,000). Furthermore, 90% of those who die by suicide have a diagnosable mental disorder, i.e. depression, anxiety, alcohol or substance abuse, and a potentially treatable mental disorder. We are posting her PowerPoint® presentation for your information. 

If you are in crisis, please call 1-800-SUICIDE (800-784-2433) Click here or Contact The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-TALK (8255)
(888-628-9454 en Español). For more on suicide prevention, click here.

With a $1,000 donation you can be a Friend of RSDSA. You will be listed in the RSDSA Review and on our website for one year (if you choose) and will be invited to participate in a future teleconference call with one of our scientific advisors to discuss emerging research of interest to the CRPS community.
Your generous donation helps support RSDSA’s operating budget and allows staff and volunteers to concentrate on accomplishing our vital mission of promoting greater awareness and earlier recognition of CRPS, funding critical research, and providing support to people with CRPS and their loved ones.

 To learn more about this opportunity, please call Jim Broatch at 877-662-7737 or send an e-mail to jwbroatch@rsds.org.

The Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDSA) was founded in 1984 to promote public and professional awareness of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD).

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