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Keith Orsini 


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(3/13/05 2:47 am)
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SYMPATHECTOMY 
There are many versions of this procedure, sometimes the nerve is simply cut, or it can be burned with chemicals, and there are a few other types. 

However, Sympathectomies have EXTREMELY LIMITED POSITIVE RESULTS and can have very damaging results. 

Once thought to be "the answer" to RSDS pain is now shown, according to a National Survey of RSDS Patients conducted in 1998, to have a very low rate of long-term success and in three out of four patients makes the RSDS spread and/or worsen. The study also showed that there is a 70% failure rate within the first year. 

This procedure is irreversible AND THANKFULLY LESS AND LESS DRS ARE PERFORMING THEM! 



"One of the biggest positive change is that in the past year more and more Drs. have come to realize that the practice of performing Sympathectomies is barbaric and nearly always fails and is usually the cause of even more pain and spreading of the disease; (sympathectomies are the cutting/burning of nerves to stop the pain of RSD). This kind of nerve damage also removes the possibility of some of the newest treatments
ability to work." Keith Orsini, Director of American RSD Hope (www.rsdhope.org) - April 2003  