Aspiring to be a higher class than one is. Derived from bourgeois - meaning middle/upper class, traditionally despised by communists. When my friend Miya wears a blazer or Lucy gets a massage I call them bougie cause we're unemployed college students. by indi June 23, 2004.
But since the nerve pathways of the spine and the brain are involved in the syndrome, the heart can be involved in addition to the stress of the RSD/CRPS and the losses it entails and the pain and depression that are part of it.
Treatment of RSD is not simple. That is because the disease in general is complicated. Some people report no known cause for the onset of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. For others, the disease originates after an injury such as a fall, a broken bone or sprain, a head injury, a heart attack or stroke, or after a surgery.