Warm and cold complex regional pain syndromes
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Results: Compared with patients who had warm CRPS, patients who had cold CRPS more often reported a history of serious life events (p 0.05) and chronic pain disorders (p 0.05). In cold CRPS, the incidence of CRPS-related dystonia was increased (p 0.05), and cold-induced pain had a higher prevalence (p 0.01). Furthermore, QST revealed a predominant sensory loss in patients with cold CRPS (p 0.05). In contrast, patients with warm CRPS were characterized by mechanical hyperalgesia (p 0.05) in the QST of affected limbs.
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