Actress Carolina Montoya, during a theatre play fell off a skateboard and broke her scaphoid. This break developed Sudeck’s syndrome. “I was told there was no solution, I was in terrible pain. I took a lot of pills and they didn’t get rid of the pain”.

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

“I was told there was no solution, I was in terrible pain. I took a lot of pills and they didn’t get rid of the pain. In the operating theatre I could already move my hand, I was in shock”.

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