complex regional pain syndrome(English)

• previously known as Sudeck’s atrophy or reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), it affects around 200,000 persons in the United States each year. It is a poorly understood positive feedback loop of severe pain which is out of proportion with the inciting injury. There is a clinical constellation of sensory, autonomic, motor, and trophic symptoms which can no longer be explained by the initial trauma. The inflammatory response is exaggerated, involving—at a minimum—the endocrine and immune systems
• EFIC, IASP, RSD, PD, MVF, CPSS, FBSS, SCS
• Pain, Care giver/provider, Education, Post-traumatic state, Endocrinology, Immunology, Injury
• https://www.nin…rome-Fact-Sheet
• https://doi.org…ain.2013.06.002
• https://doi.org…147/JPR.S320923
• https://www.emb…ling-descartes/