Evolving understandings about complex regional pain syndrome and its treatment

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 186-191

  Fechir, Marcel ^a   Geber, Christian ^b   Birklein, Frank ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BACLOFEN; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CALCITONIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GABAPENTIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GUANETHIDINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OPIATE; SCAVENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSTONIA; FRACTURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIMB INJURY; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING;

ANIMALS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48749096828     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-008-0033-2     Document Type: Review

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