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At times, severe pain suffered after an injury may seem out of proportion to the injury itself or underlying diagnosis. When this occurs in litigation, defense lawyers will usually claim that the victim is simply making up the pain to inflate his/her claim. But a serious underlying condition is the possible culprit. RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy) and CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome) are synonymous terms for a rare, often undiagnosed, condition that physicians have been reporting on since around 1865. About 200,000 individuals a year experience this condition in the United States. CRPS/RSD can be the result of a serious injury but in many cases, CRPS results from a relatively minor injury. The diagnosis is often made when the pain experienced is disproportionate to the level of injury.