Positive Options for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): Self-Help and Treatment (Positive Options for Health)

This book is a MUST HAVE for CRPS patients, their families, and perhaps a gift for the primary care physician less familiar with this difficult condition. Would love updated URLs, as some are inactive, however, that is NOT a deal breaker. Helps to know where to look for support, and this book is tremendously informative, encouraging, & hopeful.

I must give this book 5 stars!! I have had CRPS for 2 years now and NOTHING else has given me so much hope and positive "vibes". I would literally sit and cry knowing that my chances of overcoming this disease were Slim to None (& Slim just left...) and I became a statistic that I once read online about and was no longer a productive part of society; nor did I attemt to reach any part of my potential. After reading this book and being given the fact that how you react to the pain is a large part of your health not only concerning CRPS but other aspects of your health,(depression, heart condition and the list goes on and on) I realized just how much of my brain plays an affect on CRPS. This book has changed my whole outlook and therefore has changed my life with CRPS. Yes, I have pain daily, yes it can be excruciating but I DO NOT HAVE TO LET CRPS DEFINE ME!! I have used the mindfulness techniques offered in this book and I still do them! Our minds are such powerful weapons against this awful disease. If you are willing (even when you think or you feel you aren't able ) to give this book a chance and begin it with hope and an open mind, I believe, because I am a positive result of this book, that you can benefit! Our world is full of negativity, negative people, negative situations, negative daily events worldwide and being negative is so easy to become...so why not try finding the positive??? It is a challenge but have faith in yourself, have faith in those you care for etc. This book is worth so much more than the dollar value put on it. I wish all others the same success with or without this book. You have the most powerful tool against this disease. It is YOUR brain, not a physician's brain that is going to make the difference!

I have had Full-Body (arms, legs too) RSD/CRPS for 30 years now. I look just like everyone else except for the red and purple coloring of my palms and feet. I do not use a cane or wheelchair and I don’t talk about it much. I am in Ca.and have the worst doctors but I did see a Specialist for awhile. I am on lots of meds for the 7 diseases that I’ve also gotten including depression. So, I tried to give up and die but it didn’t work! I had to keep living and doing all the things that people do like having to clean, cook, exercise and have the best life I can! I love this book because you need to know what’s going on, then you can use ‘The Power Of Positive Thinking!’ If you want to feel better, it really helps. If someone would have said this to me two years ago, I would have slugged them! But it’s TRUE!! I also use to go into online support groups and I was just wallowing in my suffering, you know? I know that works for some, but not me. I wake up each morning saying, “I Am Happy, Healthy and Strong!” And I say this to myself through out my day. I don’t like to read about this disease anymore, but It’s good to be smart and read about it at the time you are diagnosed. Also, read about the more up to date books too, then YOU NEED TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BEAT THIS! I’ve come a long way and I’m grateful for every beautiful day! ☀️We can beat this-we created it and we can stop it. I know some people aren’t ready to hear this but it’s true and no one deserves this and I’m sorry to hear other reviewers’ stories. I don’t want to feel sick and tired anymore and Meditation and Hypnosis has been really great, the apps are available for guided meditation in ‘The App Store.’ Plus eating right, supplements, sleep and excercising will help you so so much! I know it’s hard to get motivated when you don’t feel good! I do know, it’s so hard and it took me so long but I’m going to fight like hell. I hope this helps at least one person then I’ll be very happy! 💕 Take Care...

Exactly what I was looking for.....enlightment about a condition that not a lot of people, nor doctors or nurses, know about!!! If you have been diagnosed with RSD you need to read this book...it is simple, easy to read, fascinating, very informative, you will have a lot more control of your condition, the treatment, the therapies, and what you have to do to overcome it. Read it, is all I can say!!

This has been one of the most helpful resources I’ve found to date to help with the ongoing management of living with CRPS.

I have had CRPS for 29 years. During that time it has spread throughout my entire body, both legs, both arms, neck and face. When I was first diagnosed the disease was called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD). It took 1 full year to diagnosis and that is why it spread. I live each day in pain but with HOPE that research will someday remedy this disease. My daughter also has CRPS. The biggest problem, in my opinion and experience, is ignorance by the medical community and general public. I have been called crazy, treated as if I as imaging the pain-even in pain clinics, by neurologists, PT, OT etc. There are so few specialists and very, very, very... few doctors interested in learning or knowing about CRPS. (I was told CRPS is mentioned in first year medical school briefly for a couple of hours and that is all.) For those who have it or have a family member or friend who have it get them involved with RSDSA Foundation located in Philadelphia PA - there is a hospital which does research there. I am in California and there is few doctors here who are experts. I do PT and OT, I take lots of medication. I still walk with a walker but use a wheelchair in public. I fall frequently even with a walker. I am also a RARE case, please believe me. But I have HOPE and GOD on my side and if there is a miracle and a cure is found for this disease I will dance, yes boogie again like I use to!

Great book for someone that has been newly diagnosed with CRPS and great for friends and family to read as they provide support and care for the person who has it. It was well written and very informative.

Great resource

I was diagnosed with CRPS six months ago after complications from surgery. Although I am only part way through the book, it is great so far with lots of suggestions, tips, and even just empathy which is so hard to find with this condition. It gives me some hope for the future!

Very informative

i suffered this condition for a few short months. i would have suffered longer, had it not been for reading this book. if you know anyone suffering - buy them this book.

The only reason I haven't given this book full marks is that it is written by an American author and, from my experience, we just do not have the diagnostic capabilities in the UK nor the treatment and support services for living with the condition that they have in the USA. What it has made me realise is that I am not alone and can do things in my own right to help myself, which I have started to do and have seen improvement already in the movement in my right foot.