Regional pain syndrome: Clinical characteristics, mechanisms and management

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 504-511

  Littlejohn, Geoffrey ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PREGABALIN; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMOTIONALITY; ERGONOMICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL STRESS; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIZATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE DISEASE; TENDON INJURY;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANALGESICS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34548402199     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0598     Document Type: Review

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