Friends With RSD/Chronic Pain And Illnesses

Please print this terrific brochure
<http://www.rsds. org/4/resources/ pdf/hospital% 20protocol_ bw.pdf> and
carry it around with you, especially to doctors' offices and hospitals.
It's bigger than a MedAlert bracelet but a lot more useful.If you
encounter the police, ambulance, and hospital ED personnel and if you
have this with you it will avoid a lot of the trauma that worsens RSD:
- NEEDLES - botched and repeated needlesticks in RSD-affected areas, IVs

STRESS - conflicts accusations and arguments by health"care" providers
that increase stress (and therefore pain)
- SENSITIVITY - Do Not Touch!! unnecessary physican exams, undressing,
touching, noise, and light
- TEMPERATURE heat and cold - ice

It's called Hospital Protocol RSD/CRPS Patient: Handle With Care!
<http://www.rsds. org/4/resources/ pdf/hospital% 20protocol_ bw.pdf>

It is relevant to all health care settings, not just hospitals. I highly
recommend it and thanks to RSDSA <http://www.rsds. org/index2. html> for
publishing it.

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