I have been pain free now for 2 weeks. I have been receiving 2 new treatments for the last 3 weeks and have seen a great benefit from them.

The 2 treatments I have received are High Power Laser Therapy and Hypnotherapy.

High Power Laser Therapy (HPLT): This is a class IV laser that will go into your body up to 7 layers deep. It goes into your cells energizing them and getting them to heal themselves.

First, the laser, which on high gets warm but not hot, is placed above my main blood vessel for my right lower extremity (right leg) to get the blood flowing again. Which in turn makes my leg warmer.

Second, the laser is ran up and down on the nerves in my leg to get them to energize and open up and not constrict anymore as is the case with RSD/CRPS. Then the laser is ran directly over my initial injury site, my knee, to help energize the cells there to heal damage that has been done as a result of the injury and the result of the RSD/CRPS. Lastly, the laser is placed upon my stomach which reaches through to my back to energize the sympathetic nervous system.

My doctor is Dr. Barold. He has been trained to use the laser on patients with RSD/CRPS. His website is http://www.doctorbarold.com/avicenna.aspx


Hypnotherapy: This is where I am most worried about my readers being offended and confused. This does not mean that RSD/CRPS is in our head. Please continue to read.

I will tell how my CD plays: My hypnotherapist and I came up with a vision of how I see my RSD working through my body and my brain. I came up with a spot in my brain where the "fire alarm was going off, even though there wasn't any smoke/fire" and a suggestion was placed in my head to have little men go and fix the broken alarm system.

Then we talked about how it felt when the pain inmy leg was bad. The way I describe it to her was like on a heartmonitor when the heart beats there is a beep and the little line shootsup to show the heartbeat, well that is how I see my pain acting. Whenit starts it's small lines with time in between them. When the paingets bad the monitor shows many jumps in extreme intensity. Thesuggestion placed was that the group of little men then went to my legto flatline the nerve that was jumping.

The last suggestion placed wasfor my brain to again act and think like it did before my accident.

The chemistry in my brain changed after that day and she is helping me get it back to straight again.

Here is a site found online to help explain hypnotherapy and pain:
http://www.psychologymatters.org/hypnosis_pain.html

I realize that there will be many people who balk at this form oftreatment because it implies that our problems are mental related; butthat is not the case. Obviously our bodies have been reprogrammed withthis new set of pain facts and maybe some of us can benefit from beingreset.

Here is the example I gave to a friend, Jason with USARSD.org: USA: ... doesn't the premise of hypno...suggest its in the mind?ME: Ina way it is. Cause if nothing is wrong with your limb then where is itbeing manifested. This is another reason i am afraid to mention itItsdefinitely diff than saying you are mental its more like saying thatyour brain controls all functions in your body so why not teach it tocontrol differently


I am hopefulthat studies can be done to see if these forms of treatment are beneficialto us sufferers. We have definitely tried everything else under the sun.

Please email, comment, anything to let me know what you think. I am curious if other people have tried this. Is this something you would try?