Origin, Symptoms, and Description of CRPS Posted: 01-21-06 08:19am
I had a motorcycle accident and sustained
a crush injury to my right knee
I had protective clothing on and was lucky
not to suffer to many abrasions.However
after the accident i had continuos pain
over the front of my Knee and after 17
months of treatment i finally had a
patella tendon decopression operation. the
damaged part of the tendon was sent for
histoligy and it came back with mucoid
degeneration with staining, focal
degeneration and neovascularisation. do
you think that these degenerative changes
could have taken place during the 17
months betwwen my accident and the surgery
as prior to this accident i had not
suffered any problems with either leg. i
am still having treatment and have
recently been diagnosed with crps as i
still have a lot of swelling to the
knee.
Yes, histological changes can develop
after a tendon injury even if they
didn’t exist before an injury. CRPS
develops after injuries; its etiology is
unknown. I can not be sure if your knee
swelling is the result of CRPS or it is
post-operational (I need to know the date
of the patella tendon decompression
surgery). Pain during CRPS is constant
and can be caused by items that usually
don’t cause pain like clothing, wind,
cold, light touch (alodinia). Further,
CRPS is very intensive in occasions where
usually it shouldn’t be so
(hyperalgesia).
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