Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) In The Elderly: A Real Cause For Concern Or More 'Funny Medicine'?
Several years ago my office represented an elderly woman who suffered a broken arm related to a fall at an assisted living facility. The severity of the fracture required the application of a cast to align the bones. A round of physical therapy also ensued after removal of the cast. Despite the efforts of the doctors and physical therapists, pain originally thought to originate from the fracture continued on long after the bones had healed. As it turned out, our client was suffered from a relatively little known medical condition known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), also referred to as...
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Study Reveals Nursing Home Patients Chronic Pain Is Not Adequately Controlled
The results from a five-year study addressing the ability of care-givers and family to perceive pain in nursing home patients has revealed both parties fail to accurately assess chronic pain levels. In reaching this conclusion, researchers in the Netherlands studied 174 nursing home patients with and without cognitive impairments. The study also concluded that family members were better at accurately assessing pain levels in their loved ones compared with nursing home staff. Perhaps most disturbing, the study concluded most nursing home patients suffer from pain-- even while resting. When researchers questioned resting patients, most scored their pain as four out...
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