REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY - "RSD"

Since this web site was established in 1997, many of my inquiries have been about RSD. This injury is now called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or CRPS, but most experts still continue to use RSD as the acronym. I have been contacted by Australian doctors, English victims, and the Los Angeles Times.  However, most of my queries come from the RSD victims and the lawyers who represent them.

For an overview of RSD, please look on my CV page at the papers I have presented to the RSD Litigation Group of the American Trial Lawyers. The footnotes have the leading experts listed. For the convenience of attorneys, there is an outline of my deposition of an RSD expert.

Many inquiries I have had are not potential lawsuits and do not need an attorney. People have been coming to me for doctor recommendations and information about RSD. However, I am not a doctor and they should really be talking to their physicians. I really feel for these victims, especially when they have just been diagnosed and are surfing the Web to find out about RSD. It is a rude and cruel awakening.

However, the contacts I receive have become too numerous to respond to all of them, which I really regret. To reduce the number of e-mail inquiries, let me give the answers to the most common questions:

1. I no longer take workers compensation cases. However, if you were injured at work and there is a potential third-party claim, such as a machine manufacturer or a driver who was negligent in a car accident, please feel free to contact me. If you have a straight workers compensation case and reside in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, I recommend Barbara Lambrano Williamson (972) 259-1913 and Kay Goggin (972) 437-1965. Tell her Mary Alice referred you.
2. I primarily practice in Texas and Washington, D.C. If your case is significant with clear liability, I might be able to come help your local attorney try the damages aspects of the RSD injury. Have him or her contact me, as I have been admitted Pro Hac Vice in other states before.
3. Most of the experts agree that the doctor you need to be seeing should be an anesthesiologist or neurologist, not an orthopedic surgeon. Most orthopedic surgeons want to start operating, which could greatly aggravate your RSD.
4. Here are several known experts in RSD who can testify and treat patients:

   Gabor Racz, M. D.
   Head of Anesthesiology
   Texas Tech School of Medicine
   Lubbock, TX
   (806) 743-3112

   John Claude Krusz, M.D.
   Neurologist
   Dallas, TX
   (214) 750-6664

   Wilfrid Janig, Dr. med
   Physiologisches Institut
   Christian-Albrechts- Unisversitat zu Kiel
   Kiel, Germany

   Pain Management Center
   Cleveland Clinic Foundation
   Cleveland, Ohio
   Michael Stanton-Hicks MB BS

   Anthony F. Kirkpatrick, M.D., Ph.D.
   Department of Anesthesiology
   University of South Florida Tampa, FL.

   Aaron Calodney, M.D., Pain Management Specialist
   1814 Roseland Blvd., 2nd Floor
   Tyler, Tx 75701

   Joshua Prager, M.D., M.S., (associated with UCLA)
   CRPS (Center for the Rehabilitation of Regional Pain Syndromes)
   100 UCLA Medical Plaza, Ste 760
   Los Angeles, CA 90095

   Norman Harden, M.D.,
   Director of the Center for Pain Studies
   Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Northwestern University
   Feinberg School of Medicine and Anesthesiology
   201 E. Huron
   Chicago, Ill.

5. These publications might help the reader gain more knowledge of RSD:

   Clinical Practice Guidelines for RSD/CRPS
   International Research Foundation for RSD/CRPS

   Reflex sympathetic Dystrophy: A Reappraisal
   Dr. Wilfrid Janig and Michael Stanton-Hicks, Editors

6. Here is more information, which may be of interest:

   American Family Physician, Volume 56, Number 9, December 1997

To all RSD Sufferers out there:

I cannot pretend that I know how you feel. I never want to know that kind of pain and misery. I really do sympathize with you. The most graphic description I have heard about the pain, came in an e-mail from a woman in North Carolina. She said:

"There is not a day that goes by that I don't feel intense deep down burning pain as though your limb were in a charcoal grill and you never take it out."

Good Luck to You!!! May God Bless You and Keep You!!!

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