What Causes CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) After an Accident?

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or CRPS is a chronic condition whereby the sufferer experiences pain in the limbs. It usually happens after a traumatic injury such as a car accident. This condition is triggered by fractures, sprains, strains or even surgery to help another part of the body to feel better. This condition is also called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), which is an older name for this condition. CRPS goes by several other names that all refer to this regional pain syndrome. A list of other names for CRPS includes:

• Causalgia
• Chronic traumatic edema
• Complex regional pain syndrome
• Minor causalgia
• Post-traumatic edema
• Post-traumatic pain syndrome
• Post-traumatic painful arthrosis
• Shoulder-hand syndrome
• Sudeck’s atrophy
• Sudeck’s syndrome
• Sympathalgia
• Sympathetically maintained pain

It is difficult to make a diagnosis for this condition, and many people suffer in silence who have it, but the pain is real to the people who experience this condition. If you have this condition, you need to call us right away to discuss your options for getting the money you need for a full recovery.

Diagnostic Testing of CRPS at the Hospital

Oftentimes, when someone suffers undiagnosed injuries after a personal injury or car accident, the individual does not know that CRPS will start on the individual’s body. CRPS affects only the upper and lower extremities. It is a relatively common chronic syndrome, but it is not well known in the medical communities on how to treat it. This condition is categorized as a neurological disorder, and can be triggered by an injury. There are several main characteristics of this condition, and patients usually experience:

• Allodynia or hyperalgesia
• Edema
• Skin blood flow changes
• Abnormal motor activity of extremities

The intensity that someone with CRPS will feel pain can vary greatly from one person to another person. This makes it nearly impossible to predict with any veracity how one person will respond to having CRPS. When this happens, many victims of this syndrome do not know where to turn. They just experienced a trauma, such as a car accident, and are left in this condition more times than not. If this happens to you after a car crash, you need to call us right away. You need a lawyer who is able to avert the disasters that seem to be coming your way, as a result of having experienced this accident. You need to put your life back together, and we are here to help you as you recover from this debilitating illness.

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What Are the Symptoms of CRPS?

There are many different symptoms that you can experience if you have CRPS. Some of these symptoms of this condition include:

• Continuous pain in the limbs
• Hot skin or flesh changes
• Swelling in the limbs
• Hyperalgesia (pain with pinprick)
• Allodynia (pain with light touch)
• Skin color changes
• Decrease in range of motion
• Tremor in the hands or feet
• Changes in nails, hair or skin
• Unfamiliar pain all over the body

This illness is characterized as a neurological disorder, and it may look like other unrelated conditions, such as an infection, vascular disease or other unrelated neuropathy. The pathophysiology of CRPS is not known at this time, but it is often triggered by a traumatic injury. The illness is diagnosed with a review by the healthcare professional team of the clinical signs and individual’s symptoms. There is no ultimate cure of CRPS at this time.

Delayed Diagnosis of CRPS

If you have experienced a serious accident, you may not be diagnosed right away with this condition. You need to tell the healthcare providers who review you after a car crash or other traumatic event, to tell them if you experience any of these above listed symptoms (either individually or collectively). If you have CRPS, or think you do, you should call us to discuss your case. We will let you sit down and talk to an attorney who will renew your hope that you will get back the money that you deserve in this case. We are here for you, and will carefully go over your case and your options for recovery of compensation from the people responsible for your losses and personal injuries. Our attorneys will work on a lawsuit for your benefit that will be the right move for you in this case.

If you suspect that you have CRPS, we understand that it can be a scary time for you. If your doctors have not diagnosed you with CRPS, that diagnosis may still be coming once they review all of the testing for your symptoms. Call our office now to ensure that you get to talk to a lawyer with experience in CRPS. We have an attorney on our team with expertise in people who have developed CRPS after a car accident or other traumatic injury. We are able to let you talk to attorneys who specialize in this condition, to help answer any questions that you may have regarding initiating this type of claim.

Fracture of the Leg Can Lead to CRPS

If you fracture your leg, the impact of the injury may affect the soft tissue to where it tears, stretches or becomes damage. This injury will likely disrupt the blood flow in this area, and reduce the chances to heal properly after the accident. If this happens to you, there is no need for you to suffer in silence. In this type of case, it would be a disaster if you did not work with a lawyer with specialty in CRPS injuries, to get you the recovery money that you deserve in this type of case. Call us today to talk right now to lawyers who can help you, if you are experiencing CRPS after a car accident or trauma injury to your arms or legs.

Fracture of the Arm May Start CRPS

If you experience a fracture in our arm, it may trigger CRPS. Here the joint mechanics are disrupted when you fracture you arm after a car accident or personal injury. There could be poor range of motion, which will lead to the poor healing of the ligaments after an injury. It can definitely become a snowballing effect, where poor healing of the ligaments after a loss creates a decrease in blood supply, which does not allow the ligaments and tendons to heal.

Fracture of the Knee Could Promote CRPS

If you experience a fracture to your knee, it could also trigger CRPS. The ligaments in your knee and soft tissues don’t connect well after a break or strain, and may start to initiate CRPS as a result of this blood disruption. If this happens to you, call us right away, in order that we can discuss this case with you.

Why Do Fractures Trigger CRPS?

Fractures can trigger CRPS because any time that there is a soft tissue injury or fracture, your body is going to react to that injury. For example, in a healthy person’s leg, the blood vessels travel on a predetermined path up and down each leg. As the blood flows from the heart to the legs in a specially routed way, the blood vessels are undisturbed and happy to roll along smoothly through your veins. But once you have a trauma to an extremity, there is a rerouting of the blood flow to those areas in the body. As you start to heal from your trauma, the blood vessels may not connect properly, not giving the proper amount of blood to those areas. This will cause major issues when blood flow is interrupted by an accident, strain or fracture.

Surgeries Can Also Trigger CRPS

CRPS is sometimes triggered by a person having a surgery. If an individual has a hand, foot or ankle surgery, there is a likelihood that the CRPS will be triggered to begin in these individuals. If you have had a surgery and developed CRPS, then the management of your postoperative care might be the cause of you having developed this condition. If you have had a surgery, and experience any of these conditions after the surgical procedure, you may have CRPS:

• Swelling of the joints in hands or feet
• Atrophy of muscles
• Cold hands and feet
• Pale hands and feet
• Muscle spasms and tightening of the muscles
• Distal radius fractures
• Carpal tunnel surgery
• Osteoporosis
• Pseudarthrosis
• Joint stiffness
• Tendon adhesions
• Some elective foot and ankle surgeries
• Possible genetic factors

Studies show that psychological and psychiatric conditions do not appear to be related to the initiation of developing CRPS at this time. Unfortunately, when some of these symptoms occur after a car crash or other traumatic event, the symptoms may not go away. The condition in some people is actually irreversible. This means that the individuals are going to have to live with a large amount of pain for many years to come. If this does happen to you, do not feel that you have to suffer in silence. You need to talk to an attorney who is ready to delve deep to understand your condition, what you are feeling, and discuss with you how to initiate a case on the merits of this type of claim.

CRPS Stages of the Condition

There are three definite stages of the condition CRPS. In Stage I, this is called the acute phase of the illness. The symptoms most commonly seen are burning pain in the limbs, which may last up to 3 months or more. The Stage II is the dystrophic phase, and it can last from 3 to 12 months, with minimal skin changes. In the Stage III of this condition, people can experience more pain, shiny skin and dry tightly stretched skin. In this stage, muscles can atrophy and tendons can retract. If the skin feels warm, it might also feel clammy or sweaty at any stage. Then, the skin can turn around and become cold and clammy as well.

If you have noticed that your skin has started to look or feel different after a trauma such as a car crash or after a personal injury, you need to give us a call right away. You may have CRPS and need to discuss a claim regarding this as it relates to your accident or personal injury.

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We are here for you, and we can assure you that we are ready to discuss your case today. You will work with an experienced attorney in Los Angeles and we will get you the recovery compensation that you need to feel whole again with CRPS. You may be wondering, “Can I sue in this type of case?” We are here to inform you that we can sue in these cases. We will always put your best interest first and foremost, and our Los Angeles case lawyers can file a lawsuit for you in this case.

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Remember, it is no problem for you to come to us to get a free second opinion regarding your case. We are here to accommodate you in every way, and once you sit down and talk to an attorney, you will feel more comfortable about making the claims that you need to make to get a full settlement. Our case attorneys in Los Angeles can sue to ensure that the good things that you deserve will come back to you, even after being in this type of loss.

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When you call us, we will answer your call and be ready to defend you in your individual case for CRPS. We understand that all CRPS cases are different. Even the same people injured in the same car will have different issues and concerns for their individual case. No two cases are the same. That is why talking to your friends and coworkers about your case is just a waste of time. They are not experts and cannot offer sound advice in this area. You need to call us now, we are ready to discuss your case right away, and get you the recovery compensation that you deserve.

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