My husband was diagnosed with rsd from a bone scan. what do we expect?

Rsd bone scan: The diagnosis is not made on bone scans - it is a clinical diagnosis - please see a pain specilaist.

Bone scan can help: Bone scans can certainly help to confirm a clinical diagnosis of rsd with classic findings of unilateral diffuse periarticular uptake. I have certainly had cases in which a person suffering chronic pain has had the diagnosis of rsd suggested only after getting a bone scan. That being said, imaging findings must always be correlated with the clinical findings to arrive at a proper diagnosis.

Need therapy: Reflex sympathetic dystrophy is characterized by group of symptoms including pain (often "burning" type), tenderness, and swelling of an extremity associated with varying degrees of sweating, warmth and/or coolness, flushing, discoloration, and shiny skin..May be associated with injury to the nerves, trauma, surgery. Some therapy medication NSAIDS or sympathetic blockade.