Mechanism-based treatment in complex regional pain syndromes

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 518-528

  Gierthmühlen, Janne ^a   Binder, Andreas ^a   Baron, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BRADYKININ; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GABAPENTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORADRENALIN; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; PREGABALIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SUBSTANCE P; TRAMADOL; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ATROPHY; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDEMA; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTENSION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OPEN STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL INFORMATION;

COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; GANGLIONIC BLOCKERS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84908086005     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.140     Document Type: Review

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