We all know that pain is a symptom of many disorders such as tumors, infection, broken bone, or even a post-op condition, but in as far as one in ten cases, the pain will persist for months and often for years and when that happens, it becomes a disease. This was the experience with one of my patients who was a ballet dancer. During one of her rehearsals, she fell on her arm and sprained her wrist. Now, normally, we'd bandage it and have her take ibuprofen for the pain. However, there was something else going on with her. This is what her arm looked like when she came two weeks after the accident. It was all red in color, discolored, cold to the touch, the muscles were frozen. Basically her arm was in a diatonic state. The pain spread from her wrist down to her fingertips. It also spread up her arm as well, going all the way up to the shoulder. The worst fact was that there was random pain 24 hours a day. She had what is known as allodynia, Even a simple touch of the hand brought her excruciating and burning pain.