Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome is a progressive disease of autonomic nervous system. This could result from a simple or complex trauma you body has suffered. While a severe injury like a knife injury could cause it, a little sprain in the neck could trigger RSD or CRPS too.
During the civil wars, Dr. Mitchel was the first scientist who studied and identified RSD, sometimes called as the Causalgia. Thus RSD has different names under which it has been studied or documented. However, the reasons for this syndrome were yet to be discovered. Gradually, a consensus opinion arrived on the horizon that in most cases RSD is the result of some injuries.
Weir Michel and Moorhouse brought out the accounts of the symptoms and signs of peripheral nerve injuries that would cause RSD. They were the first scientists to notice the burning sensations accompanying the pains suffered as a result of RSD. It was perhaps the first documentation of RSD Progression and information.
Compilation of RSD Information by scientists revealed that the parts of the body that are most affected by it are the foot or the hand. Thigh or forearm of a person is rarely affected by this syndrome. Whatever be the affected area, a burning sensation always persists. Since exposure to air causes acute pain to the patient, they avoid it which to others seems something strange.
