Reflex sympathetic dystrophy - A complex regional pain syndrome

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 939-947

  Turner Stokes, L ^a  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; GUANETHIDINE; MORPHINE;

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; DESENSITIZATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LIMB PAIN; LUMBAR SYMPATHECTOMY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE LESION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SOMATIC CELL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY;

EID: 0037115411     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0963828021000007950     Document Type: Review

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