Complex, regional, pain, syndrome

crps

• A lot of people wonder what is crps. Crps stands for complex , regional , pain, syndrome and is a horrible disease involving the nerves in your body ( your nerves help you to feel ). Basically from a nasty fall or a bad experience sometimes the nerves in your body tear and even thought there's only a little bit of pain in your body your nerves send messages to your brain saying there's lots of PAIN and this leads to not being able to move or touch that part of the body. This can lead to having to have desensitisation because like I said earlier the nerves help you touch and sometimes when you get touched instead of my nerves saying your getting touched they say your in realy bad pain.

WHAT IS CRPS

• Crps is very painful from me ( someone with experience ) some times there's burning , popping , spikes , like knives stabbing you and lots more pains. when you touch or feel a part of your body ( the hurt part that’s hurt ) and just regularly.

How much does crps hurt

This pain scale shows how painful crps is :

• The start of my story with crps started with a fall on the playground. I the got sent from school because I hurt my leg because of the fall. I went to the hospital 3 TIME and all they was you’ve twisted ankle. Then the 4th time they said that they were referring me to the specialist doctors. I went home and a couple of weeks later I went back with my Mom and Dad. They then said you’ve got crps. I went to go to hospital lots of times.

My story

• I also had to go to the doctors for medicine. Then hurt my other knee on the trampoline after 2 nights and 3 days in hospital I was let out I went to the hospital in case the thing in my leg was more serious then crps. I had to see sicolijist and a physio therapist at Walsall manor hospital. I was then siriously and badly ill. I was then a patient at the Birmingham children's hospital and I met my physio therapist called Rossan, a occupational therapist called Janine and a socialist called Sophie and I slepped in hospital for 2 weeks to get me better and now I am better. So that’s my story cut short.

• A lot of people think that crps can be cured by medicine but that’s wrong. The best treatment is phisio. Phisio is when you’ve hurt a part of your body and phisio therapists move the injured part of you body. Even though people have an operations to make there crps better.

Treatment

• When I had crps it affected my life so much and because it was in both of my legs so it made life very hard. I was up most of the night in pain, I couldn’t attend school full time, I couldn’t play without being in pain, I couldn't walk, I went through a faze of not eating, it was VERY hard to move and lots more.

How dose it affect your life

• The thing that made me believe was the fact that my family, pets and relatives believed In me an new I was going to get better. Looking back on it I thought every one was putting in effort for nothing but I think the best treatment is believing in your self and having other people believe in you. I couldn’t of got better without my family, pets and relatives.

Believe

• From this horrible experience I have learned if you have believe in your self and have people who believe in you. You can do anything. I think crps has made me a stronger person mentally and physically. I now want to help other people with my condition and raise money for Birmingham children's hospitals physio department and ward 7 the ward I slept on. Luckily I'm climbing Snowdon this year doing a sponsored silence, vising children in hospital and maybe doing west midlands fun run we want to raise £1000 all together but I don’t want money for visiting children.

What I have learned

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