Year 2020

Face Masks – American Sizing

Plague Era Mask
Face Masks - part of our 2020 world and COVID-19. Physical therapy is much more difficult with a mask, so I have been looking at mask designs that are more accomodating of exercise and my glasses. I have also been looking at how these masks should fit, which seems to be quite different than how Americans wear them.

Hello, My Name is CRPS Story

This is an old story that has been floating around the internet for some time on RSD and CRPS sites. Medical research is slowly making headway and but the feel of the story is still true. The name was changed…

Risk Factors For CRPS

On September 24, 2018, Katsuhiro Toda, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kitohiroshima Toyohir Hospital, Japan, published a research article for risk factors of complex regional pain syndrome in the Juniper Online Journal of Orthopedic & Orthoplastic Surgery. ( Katsuhiro T. Risk…

DNA and Complicated Cousins

Just to be upfront, I don’t have an answer yet to this only the questions. I have been working with genealogy for most of my life and with the DNA aspect of genealogy for several years. I already had my…

More Pain – CRPS

The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) set the diagnostic criteria for Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome in 2003 in Budapest. It is called Budapest Criteria. The IASP created a list of 4 high-level conditions. Two of those conditions…