Dr. Pradeep Chopra, MD Speaks at RSDSA's Learning to Live Well with Chronic Pain Conference - RSDSA

Dr. Pradeep Chopra is a gifted and compassionate pain specialist with a special interest in treating CRPS and its comorbid conditions in adults and children. He practices in Pawtucket, RI.

[pujajaiswal]

This man has studied, observed, researched and explained CRPS phenomenally.

[aprilhunt-vail]

Thank you Dr Chopra. I'm stunned by the detail and thoughtfulness you put into this seminar. I'm also both saddened and excited: sad because my husband has suffered unspeakably due to this condition, while there was info available that failed to reach him, and excited that it's finally reaching him via my research, and via your video. He is going to Cleveland Clinic next month, at last, but they are starting him in the epilepsy center for seizure testing. He is upset about this and feels it's just going to one more waste of time, but I'm desperate for him to have a captive audience so I'm encouraging him to go, regardless, and maybe when we show them this video they will take a serious look at CRPS, and treatments for my husband. He's reached a place where he must decide if life is worth living each day. If they don't offer him more relief - and merely continue trying to get him to stop taking pain medication - I fear he may decide this planet is no longer the place. Your video may have just made the difference.

[cynthiacormany]

Thank you for all the information. I have had RSD for 18 1/2 years. It started after I had a fusion on 3 discs in my neck. The doctor was an orthopedic surgeon. So they go through the front of the neck. He told me that instead of using a halo to hold my head still during surgery he pulled my head back as far as possible and taped it to the table and then pulled my left arm down as far as possible and then taped it down. After surgery I was in more pain than before surgery. Especially in my neck and left shoulder. It felt like a knife was stabbing me in the neck and shoulder. Plus my arm turned red and my left hand was freezing. Over the years after injections into my neck and a SCS put in twice because the first time the leads slipped down. It was put at level C2. Any how all these years later I have pain from my face and back of my head all the way to my feet and my stomach. I feel like I am on fire and I break out into blisters all over but my back and neck are the worst. It looks like 2nd degree burns from a fire. I also have knife stabbing pain. I wish so much that I could see you. I live about 2 hours from Chicago. I wish there was a way I could show you how bad my back looks. But I fear my insurance would not pay for Ketamine treatments. Thanks for all you do for people with this awful disease.

[mahoganyhorizons]

I have watched this so many times and it is a reference that I keep going to in order to help carve out a treatment program with my pain management Dr.

[skiroll]

OK because i have crps for eight years now and its very hard any other conference near Illinois

[blessedrjj]

Thank you so much for this informative video. My CRPS Journey has been filled with numerous twists, turns, ups and downs, this video shed light on my symptoms and additional treatment options. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[RussEastburn]

I've had CRPS for 9 years. It's a lonely place that no one including those closest to me truly believes or can begin to understand. Its spread through my whole body My end game I see as only being suicide I can't do this any longer.

[cristobalmanuelmoreno.llan]

Pain worst than the amputation of a digit or cancer pain. Minute 1:20:28

[Somuchfalsehistory]

Everything he just said I had a jerk pain doc say it is not

[dlny]

VERY frustrating to hear Dr Chopra skate over Medical Marijuana saying someone else would be presenting on it. This ADDS to the stigma. I cannot fathom why he could not take one moment to give HIS thoughts on MMJ for RSD/CRPS. What made this even worse was to search your videos and there is NOTHING from the presentation mentioned as the reason for Dr Chopra to say nothing about it. He could have placed one graphic and said useful or not, recommended or not, helps or hurts... he speaks to everything from Benadryl to Cialis to Ketamine and yet nothing about MMJ. Such BS. I actually wanted to know what Dr Pradeep Chopra thought about MMJ and RSD/CRPS. I would like a reply that contains one or two links - on for the video of the presenter at this conference on MMJ and RSD/CRPS, and a link to anything covering Dr Chopra's views on MMJ and RSD/CRPS.

[TheDimachaerus]

This guy is no different than any other doctor...