Dr. Piñal’s patient Dolores had been suffering from Sudeck’s dystrophy for four years after failed carpal tunnel surgery.

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, Sudeck’s dystrophy or complex regional pain is a very painful chronic musculoskeletal pathology that affects the upper limb with particular intensity. It causes stiffness of the joints, with poor mobility, a burning sensation accompanied by hypersensitivity of the skin, severe swelling (due to abnormal accumulation of fluid in the tissues), redness, sweating, etc.
“Four years ago I had carpal tunnel surgery and after four months I developed Sudek. I was doing rehabilitation, I was doing chiropractic, to see if it could be fixed, and taking a lot of medication. The doctors told me they couldn’t do anything for me, that I had to live with the pain”.
It is a surgical procedure that requires extensive analysis, experience and technique to rule out, locate and address the source of a problem that has gone unnoticed by other surgeons.
Dr. Piñal and his surgical unit have already cured dozens of patients with this diagnosis, using a clinical approach that involves re-evaluation of the case and – on occasions – also surgery, which in expert hands produces spectacular results.