KIMinTX

Ken, Thanks for the suggestions. I repect your experiences.... but, ICE??? LOL.. Sorry, just can't go that way. After a few surgery's on my femur, they had to apply ice to my knee where the rod was taken.
The combination of the surgery's and I believe the ice made the RSD MUCH worse. Anyway..... this is a piece from one of my favorite sites for research. You've probably seen it, but here it is again.
Wish I knew how to include a link on here and I would send it... but the site is.. [url="http://www.rsdrx.com/rsdpuz4.0/index.html"]http://www.rsdrx.com/rsdpuz4.0/index.html[/url]

Everyone take care of you! And here's wishing you all a pain free day!
Kimmie

The application of ice plays a major role. In experiments regarding the conductibility of the nerve impulse to the nerves, cold has shown to play a major role. If the temperature of the extremity drops from 37 centigrade to 10 centigrade, then the larger somatic sensory nerves stop conducting electricity through the nerve fibers. It takes the temperature to drop to 0 centigrade (freezing temperature) for the sympathetic nerves which are small thin fibers to stop conducting. The reason is the smaller the nerve fiber the less fatty sheath of myelin (insulator) surrounds the nerve. The fat in the myelin freezes more readily with the drop of temperature and stops the conduction of the nerve impulse.

What the above implies is the fact that once the extremity is cooled down with ice to 10 temperature or lower, the normal conduction of the somatic nerves (touch, vibration, and position sense) is blocked off and the extremities left with purely the sympathetic nerve fibers function (constant burning pain).

The above clearly indicates that cooling of the extremity that had minor injury will tilt the scale towards the hyperactive sympathetic burning pain function at the expense of excluding the
normal good senses of touch, vibration and position senses.


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