When Sunny Boshoff, a healthy and active 58 year old, suffered a crush injury to her right hand she was assured she would make a full recovery in a matter of months, it didn’t happen. Instead she found herself assailed by a constant and excruciating pain that would eventually be diagnosed as CRPS, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, an increasingly common but little understood condition.
CRPS Awareness Moving against Pain is based on the diary she kept during the following two years as she sought desperately to find a means of eradicating the pain and regaining the use of her hand. Told with refreshing candour and wit this book fully details all the treatments she received during this time, both conventional and alternative, and the part they played in her recovery. Plus it offers really practical advice to anyone trying to get through the day to day with a debilitating injury. It’s full of fascinating diagrams and photographs and her own rather wonderful illustrations achieved with her left hand.
Not only will this book be a godsend to anyone who has suffered an injury to their upper extremities it should also be required reading for any healthcare practitioners working in this field.