SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Astrid Pérez, met today Monday with the president of the National Association of Disability, Rare Diseases and Social Integration (Aderis), María del Carmen Hernández Cabrera, and other representatives of this group on the occasion of World Health Day of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or Sudeck Syndrome.
It is a disease characterized by intense and persistent pain, accompanied by swelling and changes in the skin, which affects one or more extremities, and usually appears after some type of injury or operation.
Experts remember that it can affect any age and both men and women, although statistically it is more common in young women. The incidence of the disease is variable, although in Spain there are no official figures.
María del Carmen Hernández explained that Aderis is working on a census in the Canary Islands of people affected by this syndrome and other rare diseases, “which according to the World Health Organization affect between 6 and 8% of the population as a whole. world, what was transferred to the Canary Islands means some 140,000 people affected in total. Regarding Sudeck syndrome, the association is aware of at least five confirmed cases on the islands.
Astrid Pérez recalled that tonight, starting at 7:30 p.m., the façade of the Parliament of the Canary Islands will light up orange to “give visibility to the disease known as Sudeck Syndrome, which affects the extremities and is characterized by intense pain “And to remember that early diagnosis improves the quality of life of affected people.”
For the president of the Chamber, “it is essential that from the Parliament of the Canary Islands we help to publicize the work of groups that, like Aderis, work so that these realities, so often hidden, are better known and attended to.”
The objective of Aderis, whose headquarters are in Puerto del Rosario, on the island of Fuerteventura, is “to work for the dignified treatment of people affected by rare diseases and functional diversity throughout the Archipelago.”
