Syosset Family Bring Awareness to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano recently issued a Proclamation naming one week in November “Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Awareness Week.”

The week of Nov. 7 will recognize the condition which causes continuous, intense and often burning pain.

Symptoms can include changes in the skin color and temperature of the affected body part, as well as skin sensitivity, sweating and swelling.

In order to commemorate CRPS’s “Color The World Orange” campaign, which hosts an event to spread awareness of the condition on the first Monday of November, the dome of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola was illuminated in orange.

Syosset resident Kristen Haunss accepted the Proclamation along with her parents Patricia and Richard Haunss.

The local family has been working diligently to get information on CRPS out to the public.

Kristen, who has CRPS, knows only too well that more needs to be done to create a movement in the hopes of helping others discover information and support for the illness.