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CITY OF IOWA CITY
"QR T-4 COUNCIL ACTION REPORT
November 3, 2025
Color the World Orange for CRPS/RSD Awareness Day
Attachments: Color the World Orange for CRPS/RSD Awareness Day proclamation
City of Iowa City
PROCLAMATION
wnereas, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CAPS), also known as Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy (RSD) is a nerve disorder that causes chronic pain; and
Whereas, the symptoms of CRPS/RSD are often described as burning that is out of proportion to
the severity of the initial injury and can include swelling and extreme sensitivity to touch; and
Whereas, while CRPS/RSD was first identified during the Civil War, it remains a poorly
understood condition which has no cure', and
Whereas, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and other institutes of the
National Institutes of Health support research relating to CRPS/RSD; and
Whereas, members of the CRPS/RSD community will spread awareness in November; and
Whereas, On Nov. 3, 2025, members of the CRPS/RSD community will celebrate the 12th-
annual Color The World Orange day to spread awareness of this poorly understood pain disorder.
Now, Therefore, I, Brace Teague, Mayor of Iowa City, do hereby proclaim the month of
November 2025 to be
CRPS Awareness Month
And do hereby proclaim Monday, November 3, 2025 as
Color the World Orange for CRPS/RSD
Awareness Day
in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Signed in Iowa City, Iowa,
this 3rd day of November 2025.