Introduction: Complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS) are disabling pain syndromes that can develop after minor tissue injury or trauma and are characterized by sensory, motor, and autonomic abnormalities distributed in a glove-like or stocking-like manner. Complex regional pain syndrome is well known in adults, but is relatively rare in children. Most of the reported cases of CRPS in children a...

pinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapy enhances pain relief over a long-term period, decreases the need for opioid analgesics, improves quality of life, increases the rate of return to work, and manages pain economically. These benefi ts make SCS therapy a viable treatment option for seriously injured soldiers with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). The United States has recently been faced w...

Although the major mechanism of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) involves dysfunctional central or sympathetic nervous system activation, the peripheral nervous system also contributes significantly to its clinical manifestations. Pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) is a recently developed treatment option for neuropathic pain syndromes. Here, we report a case of CRPS Type II after a femur fractur...

complex regional pain syndrome (crps) is a variety of painful conditions following injury which appears regionally having a distal predominance of abnormal findings. this study, evaluate the use of phentolamine for sympathetic block and regional anesthesia in treatment of crps related pain. in this study, 68 patients with crps who were referred to pain clinics of imam hossein and akhtar hospita...

abstract explaining the etiology of complex regional pain syndrome (crps) from the psychogenic model is exceedingly unsophisticated, because neurocognitive deficits, neuroanatomical abnormalities, and distortions in cognitive mapping are features of crps pathology. more importantly, many people who have developed crps have no history of mental illness. the psychogenic model offers comfort to ph...

ABSTRACT The complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS I and CRPS II), also known as reflex sympatheticThe complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS I and CRPS II), also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia, have been recognized for the past 2,500 years and believed in for the past 150, but they have yet to be understood. These syndromes can be characterized by discrete sensory, motor, a...

The nonselective alpha-adrenergic antagonist, phenoxybenzamine, has been used in the treatment of neuropathic pain syndromes, specifically, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) types I and II. This agent has also previously been used in intravenous regional peripheral blocks for treatment of CRPS I; however, an intravenous preparation of phenoxybenzamine is not currently available in the U.S.A...