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Concussions, PCS, and AMPS
Concussions, PCS, and AMPS
Concussions
Concussions
Mayo Clinic Definition: Concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury that usually happens after a blow to the head.
Concussions are caused by your brain hitting your skull because of a direct hit to your head, or a whiplash injury.
Post Concussion Syndrome
Post Concussion Syndrome
Mayo clinic Definition: Post-concussion syndrome is a complex disorder in which various symptoms — such as headaches and dizziness — last for weeks and sometimes months after the injury that caused the concussion. Concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury that usually happens after a blow to the
Post concussion syndrome happens when symptoms remain after 3 months, even though the "brain bruise" of a concussion is gone.
Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome
Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome
Mayo Clinic Definition: Amplified musculoskeletal pain syndromes are pain syndromes where excessive, acute and chronic pain are observed for which no overt primary cause can be found or surmised.
Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome is a condition where your brain receives pain signals despite the lack of pain stimulus. It can be in one region of the body (see CRPS ) or it can effect all of you. It is rare, and more common in women than men. It is not known why it starts. AMPS can make it seem like an injury has lasted way longer than it should, for example I have AMPS and my foot injury should have taken at most a month to heal, but I kept having pain, even when I wasn't walking on it. But with a concussion it continues the pain and symptoms even though they shouldn't be there. Because of my AMPS, I have pain all over. It will feel as though my foot is breaking under my feet when it is quite intact and it will feel like my knees and hips have aged 70 years overnight some times. AMPS is treatable, though no medications will work. Specific PT, OT and psychotherapies are required. I did the treatments and still am in a lot of pain, the treatments focus on function rather than pain level. While I loved the therapists that I worked with, all of the people at the hospital actually, I feel like the treatment wasn't ideal because I ended up with many PTSD triggers from it and I felt that if my pain wasn't gone that it was my fault, because the idea of the treatment is that if you do enough, work hard enough, that your pain will do away, which is just not accurate.
Ask your doctor if you think you may have AMPS
Symptoms of AMPS:
- continued pain
- not responding to any treatments (especially meds, but also typical vision, alignment and massage therapies.)
- Some people have extreme skin sensitivity where even air hurts.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Mayo Clinic Definition: Chronic arm or leg pain developing after injury, surgery, stroke, or heart attack.
This is often used as another name for AMPS, and may be accepted that way by doctors, but there are some differences that people who have it use to distinguish. CRPS is often in one area of the body (but can spread). CRPS is characterized by the feeling of being on fire, and the skin sensitivity for people who have it. I have AMPS all over, but CRPS in my arms and legs, meaning while my AMPS will make my foot feel like it is breaking, my CRPS makes my arms and legs feel as though there are bruises all over, and if anyone/thing touches my arms or legs it's like they are jabbing a bruise. Some days it just feels as if my arms and legs are on fire and there is nothing I can do to stop it.
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