Shin Dong-wook suffering from CRPS

Shin Dong-wook's CRPS is a rare disease that no one knows the cause of.

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While it has been known that actor Shin Dong-wook is suffering from a rare disease, attention for CRPS increased as well.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a rare disease he was diagnosed with in the army.

CRPS is a disease that occurs in a particular part of the body after an external injury and is rare but is chronic and pains like the nerve disease continues.

The problem is that the pain continues without external wounds and the degree is so severe and frequent. The pain can be caused with just a gaze of the wind or a piece of clothing but there is no proper cure for it.

There recently was a graph that showed the intensity of the pain caused by CRPS on a foreign website. If the pain of giving childbirth is 7, CRPS pains were rated 10.

The pains happen usually in the arms and legs and sometimes in other areas. About twenty thousand people suffer from CRPS in Korea.