María Eugenia, a patient of Dr. Piñal’s, had been suffering from pain for seven years, and thanks to the pain elimination surgery for Sudeck’s dystrophy, “it has changed my life…”.

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, Sudeck’s dystrophy or complex regional pain presents as a very painful chronic musculoskeletal pathology that affects the upper limb with particular intensity. It produces stiffness of the joints, with poor mobility, burning sensation accompanied by cutaneous hypersensitivity, severe swelling (due to abnormal fluid accumulation in the tissues), redness, sweating, etc.

“I had neuropathic pain, I had been suffering from it for 7 years…. It wouldn’t let me live. I had no mobility in my dominant hand. Now that I am cured I want to look for work and make a normal life….”

This is a surgical procedure that requires an exhaustive previous analysis and great experience and technique to discard, locate and address the source of a problem that has gone unnoticed by other surgeons.