The Connection Between CRPS and Cortisol

What is the connection between CRPS and Cortisol, and a lot of the odd ball symptoms we endure with CRPS?

Now, anyone living with CRPS or chronic pain knows the pain creates stress… which leads to anxiety, for some – depression, and for most it leads to insomnia too.

Stress and pain are interweaved at multiple levels. This impact - in turn - manifests in other ways in the body.

One of the big things I talk to CRPS and chronic pain patients about in the office is the connection between the central nervous system (brain and spine) and the autonomic nervous system and how CRPS/chronic pain is propelled by both.

The brain is the best super-computer on the planet that is tasked with running our entire body.

A specific area of the brain – the limbic system – is tied to CRPS.

While your autonomic nervous system i ...