the McGill Pain Scale

the McGill Pain Scale

what is it and how does it apply for chronic pain patients? Pain is difficult to explain. Everyone has experienced that at some level. At the ER, the Medical Staff would ask you a very basic exercise to label your own pain: “From a scale to 1 to 10, who bad does it...
An MTI Patient’s Journey

An MTI Patient’s Journey

What is it like to have your health cared for from the other side of the Ocean?  When a patient needs a treatment abroad, the things to handle are far more than simply get a doctor’s appointment and drive there. One has to think about airports, taxis, a map of...
ARTICLE: NERIDRONATE VS OTHER DRUGS

ARTICLE: NERIDRONATE VS OTHER DRUGS

CRPS cannot be treated easily: all major Health Institutions, such as NHS in the UK and Mayo Clinic in the US, agree on this statement, along with the Italian Health National Institution, where Neridronate has been labelled the standard drug for CRPS. Let’s take a...
Fibromyalgia and depression

Fibromyalgia and depression

RSD CRPS Why are the two so often linked to each other?  Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition that touches an estimate of 5 million people in the United States only. Women representing between 80 to 90% of the patients. It manifests through an intense and...
Bisphosphonates

Bisphosphonates

RSD CRPS Pros and cons of the use of different bisphosphonates for the treatment of CRPS Bisphosphonates are a class of pharmaceuticals used to inhibit bone resorption , they get their name from the two phosphate groups that characterize them on a molecular level....