Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Old School CRPS

100

Term formally used to describe CRPS with a specific injury

What is Causalgia?

200

Term formally used to describe CRPS if there was no specific injury

What is Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy?

300

CRPS type I (RSD) was classically divided into three clinical phases (stages).

What is there is little evidence that CRPS “progresses” from one stage to another.

CRPS Theories

100

This theory is based on the body's system of imbalanced nerve receptors.

What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?

200

CRPS primarily involves the very large receptive fields.  

What are unmyelinated C-Fibers?

300

The criteria for clinical diagnosis for CRPS.

What is the Budapest consensus

CRPS Other Facts

100

Unlike traditional neuropathic pain, CRPS has

What is no dermatonal pattern?

200

CRPS is linked epidemiologically

What is with asthma and other hypersensitivity syndromes

300

Pain from a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain.

What is allodynia?

400

Cause of tissue hypoxia, ischemia, and inflammation.

What is loss of local microvascular control?

Treatments for CRPS

100

A gradually increasing exercise program to keep the painful limb or body part moving may help restore some range of motion and function.

What is Occupational Therapy & Physical Therapy?

200

This treatment helps those with CRPS who may suffer from depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder, all of which heighten the perception of pain and make rehabilitation efforts more difficult.

What is Psychotherapy?

300

These devices administer drugs directly to the spinal fluid, so that opioids and local anesthetic agents can be delivered to pain-signaling targets in the spinal cord at doses far lower than those required for oral administration.

What are Intrathecal drug pumps?

400

This medication is not recommended for chronic use in CRPS.

What is chronic glucocorticoid treatment? 

500

Current treatment paradigms for CRPS.

What are multidisciplinary?

(focusing on early mobilization, physical therapy, pain management, patient education, and psychological support.)