Texas Legislators Attempting to Slam Courthouse Doors for Victims and Consumers
Although the State of Texas faces a multimillion dollar budgetary shortfall, the public schools are threatened by massive cuts in teachers and resources, and the elderly, handicapped and the poor are...
View ArticleSpecial Interest Money Flows Into Texas To Buy Corporate Immunity
I know it appears that all I want to talk about these days is the Tort Reform movement in Texas this Legislative Session. But people need to understand that decisions that will be made in the next few...
View ArticleHot Coffee Spills The Secrets of Tort Deform
Tonight on HBO, the documentary movie Hot Coffee by Susan Saladoff, the former president of Public Justice will premier at 9 pm EST. This movie will finally provide a strong and persuasive response to...
View Article4th of July Special – Thanks to the Founding Lawyers
Happy 4th of July and thank God for our Founding Fathers and their vision which has kept America vital for over 235 years. I read an interesting book recently, The Founding Lawyers and America’s Quest...
View ArticleThe Chamber – Denying Access to the Courthouse for Citizens, but Not...
Last month. the U.S. Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) held its annual summit – a strategy session on eliminating Americans' access to the civil justice system. In its typical self-serving...
View ArticleLawsuit Highlights How RSD/CRPS Often Misunderstood
Although Jim Broatch, executive vice president of the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association, describes the pain associated with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) as greater than that of...
View ArticleCRPS-RSD Pain Affects Sufferers, Family Members Too
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, is a rare, incurable disorder that causes the brain to send pain signals to the body, even when there is no detectable reason...
View ArticleNew Study, Medication Gives Hope to CRPS-RSD Victims
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing therapies for the treatment of pain and other central nervous system disorders, announced last month that the first...
View ArticlePlasma Exchange Therapy a Potential Treatment Option for RSD/CRPS Sufferers
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS/RSD) has remained a mystery in terms of how to best treat it, but a new, potentially effective treatment known as plasma exchange (PE) therapy gives new hope for...
View ArticleConnecticut Board Votes to Cover CRPS/RSD Under State Medical Marijuana Law
On August 19, the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection’s Medical Marijuana Program Board of Physicians voted unanimously in favor of adding complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS/RSD) to the...
View ArticleWomen Connect on Twitter, Form Global RSD/CRPS Support Group
Throughout the 30 years I have been representing patients with CRPS/RSD, I have come to appreciate how helpful and comforting a support group is for these folks. Each has his or her own unique...
View ArticleCRPS/RSD Sufferers Can Learn to Rephrase Pain
In a medical context, words are more than mere puffs of air – they are neurological events. The McGill Pain Index, one of the most widely used pain assessment systems, relies completely on verbal...
View ArticleHigh Frequency Stimulation Could be Effective Treatment for CRPS/RSD, Study Says
A German study found that high frequency repetitive stimulation helped improve tactile ability and overall pain in patients affected by complex regional pain syndrome/reflex sympathetic dystrophy...
View ArticleStudy Says DRG Stimulation Effective Pain Relief for CRPS/RSD
According to a new study, those suffering with complex regional pain syndrome/reflex sympathetic dystrophy (CRPS/RSD) may be able to obtain significant limb pain relief with dorsal root ganglion (DRG)...
View ArticleDo I Have CRPS/RSD? How to Tell
For over thirty years, I have been handling cases in which the original traumatic injury evolves into CRPS/RSD. A clinical diagnosis is required which feature a variety of signs and symptoms. You do...
View ArticleWhy a CRPS/RSD Claim Can be Hard to Prove
Although the pain suffered is extremely real to a sufferer of complex regional pain syndrome/reflex sympathetic dystrophy (CRPS/RSD), it can be very hard to prove, particularly in court. Some of the...
View ArticlePain Drug Reaches Phase 3 Clinical Trials
A Pittsburg-based drug development company has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for phase 3 clinical trials of a product to treat severe, persistent pain. The medication,...
View ArticleCRPS/RSD Difficult to Diagnose, Harder to Live With
Articles surrounding complex regional pain syndrome/reflex sympathetic dystrophy (CRPS/RSD) often describe the disorder as “painful,” “misunderstood,” and “difficult to treat” for one very important...
View ArticleCDC, New England Journal of Medicine Weigh in on Chronic Pain
Chronic pain has been the subject of several recent sources of information, such as the proposed opioid guidelines released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and an...
View ArticleDoes Medical Marijuana Relieve CRPS/RSD Pain? The Debate Continues
Medical marijuana has been approved for use in 23 states, and the law in Illinois allows patients with one of 40 specified medical conditions, including complex regional pain syndrome/reflex...
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