Both Fibromyalgia and RSD/CRPS have a lot in common, especially when it comes to weather sensitive pain. While in the end these are clearly different people with both conditions can benefit by remembering that they have the condition rather then the condition having them. At Piedmont Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, PA we place particular emphasis on conditions with weather sensitive pain and helping people to enjoy life today.
Dr. Schwartz is the Medical Director of the St. Francis Bon Secours Hospital Fibromyalgia Restorative Care Program. He is also the Medical Director of the South Carolina Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Fibromyalgia Support Group, which he founded in 1990.
Dr. Schwartz has numerous publications and lectured extensively on both Fibromyalgia and RSD/CRPS. His practice has special emphasis on patients with complex, chronic pain that have weather sensitive aspect to their symptoms.
He has a unique approach that reduces Total Load, the total number of things that do not allow someone to be well, and addresses autonomic dysfunction (eye, bowel, bladder, heart, skin, and movement disorders) associated with these conditions.
RSD/CRPS is a severely painful condition characterized by weather sensitive pain, cold skin, bone changes, and a poor prognosis. There is hope however. We have seen excellent results through autologous (your own) structural support cell harvesting and then implantation into the affected limb. Conditions such as RSD/CRPS can cause worry and tension. By assessing the situation and then coming up with a treatment plan such as Structural Support Cells for RSD/CRPS afflicted patients can still enjoy life today. Learn more at piedmontpmr.com.
