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Crps :l foot- meds, physio, steroid injections, considering scs. swelling a problem, can't wear shoes, walk properly-any advice to reduce swelling?

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Dr. Edward Hellman answered

Specializes in Orthopedic Surgery

Sympathectomy: If the swelling is presumably due to the dysfunction of the sympathetic nervous system, which is the underlying cause of CRPS, then a Sympathectomy would be the treatment of choice for it.

Answered 4/18/2019

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