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.
The cause of CRPS/RSD is unknown, and most treatments for the symptoms experienced by CRPS/RSD patients are not optimal. Current theories of the potential mechanisms of CRPS/RSD are based on the notion that a pathologic sympathetically maintained reflex arc is involved in the generation and maintenance of pain.