CRPS awareness month

November is (among other things) CRPS awareness month.

CRPS - or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a chronic pain syndrome which can affect individual limbs to the whole body. It is poorly understood currently by medical science, and there is currently no cure.

As someone who has suffered with CRPS - I want to raise awareness for this condition.

So, for the next four weeks I will be posting once a week some tips/advice that I have learnt over the last three years living with this condition.

I am also hoping to release a journal/pain tracker for people with CRPS (currently only available in the UK). Keep an eye on the blog for the release day post!

This tracker/journal is designed to help you create your own guidebook to your CRPS. Part traditional pain tracker (e.g. Mon 1st pain was 7/10), this book also contains a journal section. Here you are given different tips and suggestions to help you better manage living with your condition, and given space to then write down your own experiences.

This makes the journal unique to you, and your condition. Because while CRPS is a set medical condition, it can affect people differently depending on where it is in the body.