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ReferencesInteresting Materials and WebsitesVisit PARC: Early diagnosis brings the best prognosis.www.rsdcanada.orgTe Budapest criteria is used to diagnose CRPS. Tis criteria is on PARC’S link page:http://rsdcanada.org/parc/english/RSD-CRPS/whatis.html#1Please scroll down to the table Current Budapest diagnostic criteria (Moscovitz 2010). Diagnosis is no longer difcult if this criteria is followed.CRPS has been around since the Civil War in USA when Silas Weir Mitchell, a Philadelphia neurologist wrote about it. Soldiers coming back from the Civil War had causalgia which is what he called it then. More on PARC’S site at: http://rsdcanada.org/parc/english/RSD-CRPS/history.htm• Living a life of pain: Te Story of RSD/CRPS A documentary video chronicling four CRPS patients; Sarah Panas, flmmaker; video available through PARC PARC, P.O BOX 21026 St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2M 7X2 ($12.25 including shipping charges in Canada) For questions, please e-mail parc21026@yahoo.ca• Te Brain that Changes itselfA book on neuropathic pain that makes us believe that the problem is our body when it is in our brain which is not functioning properly. In CRPS, the brain map needs to be ‘rewired’ and it has also shrunk. Mirror therapy fools the brain into thinking that movement does not equal pain. It ‘retrains’ the brain; distortions disappear and the limb is owned again by the patient.(Source: PARC PEARL, Volume 15, Issue 41, Fall 2013) • Why are my nerves so sensitive? Dr. Adriann Louw (Colleen Louw & Corey Zimney) Suggestion from PARC magazine• Neuro science education for patients with CRPS• Living with RSDS Your guide to coping with Refex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Linda Lang & Peter Moskovitz• Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_NzhnAXX2c For an excellent lecture on CRPS by Harvard trained Dr. Pradeep Chopra of Rhode Island who treats CRPS in his busy pain clinic.