Dr. Elliot Crane

Actually, I retired on May 1st, but prior to that, Stanford University in the School of Medicine.

May 1st.

I went to medical school at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, graduating in 1977. And from there, I did a pediatric residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Following that, an anesthesiology residency at the same hospital. And then a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia and critical care medicine at Boston Children's Hospital.

And that was all finishing at the end of 1983.

Maya, I think, was about 10 years old at the time. And I would say that 10-year-old girls, and I say girls because it's about seven or eight times more common in females than in males. Almost all of our patients are females who have CRPS. We don't know why that is, but 10-year-old girls with CRPS are our favorite population to take care of with CRPS. Why?

Because they're the easiest to take care of, they recover the fastest, and they don't recur. Of all the kids we've taken care of, we've never had a recurrence of CRPS in a child whom we've treated at the age of 10 or 11 or 12. As kids get older, it becomes more difficult to treat, more challenging.

And as children advance through adolescence, their teen years into their young adult years, it begins more and more to take on the pattern of adult CRPS, which is a much more difficult condition to treat.