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What leads to more pain spine surgery or rsd?
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Depends: Depends, but pain from spine surgery will improve as healing takes place. Rsd symptoms may persist. After any surgery, it is expected that there will be pain associated with the surgery and the surgical approach.
Answered 4/27/2013
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RSD is worse: Reflex sympathetic dystrophy is a pain syndrome that causes severe pain and usually also skin changes because of impaired sympathetic flow to nerves. Rsd is very difficult to treat. On the other hand spine surgery pain is generally limited to the recovery from surgery.
Answered 4/2/2016
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