[Truth Seeker]

I have often wondered how doctors/researchers come up with the names for diseases, but the following story really put the icing on the cake.
A couple of years ago I was watching a medical program on TV, it showed a man in his fifties who had suffered a stroke and who developed some very strange behaviours.
When the man was in the washroom and his hand touched the vanity, his hand would become like a vice grip, meaning, he could not get his hand away from the counter and he would have to call his wife to help him.
On other occasions, his hand would go involuntarily towards his throat and begin to strangle it.

It than showed a lady, approximately the same age, who also had suffered a stroke and when this lady stood in front of a mirror trying to button up the front of her blouse, her hand instead of going towards the blouse, would go towards the mirror and begin to claw it.
I was stunt by what I was hearing, yet after all of my "unusual" experiences with RSD, there was not to much that could shock me anymore, until a doctor started to speak.
This individual, to put it as kindly as I can, referred to this as "Alien Hand Syndrome."
Obviously, no thought was put into this to protect the innocent people, who will never be able to tell anyone what they are dealing with, without ridicule or being made fun of.

Not understanding something is one thing, but being stupid about it is quite another.

Truth Seeker

[plumb bob]

Hello hello,

Those poor mislabeled victims. Insulting an injury does not help. So, because they found a name for it, there will be no more investigating. They should be looking at the motor neurons in the spine.
The ones that instinctively move a limb. Like our RSD instigators. I learned that sympathetic NS
will move your limbs, before your brain knows about it. A cockroach can feel air from your foot.
Next thing it knows, is that it had already traveled over a foot and a half. Fast.

My favorite is Anal Fistula. Doesn't sound right.