Complex Regional Pain Syndromes eMedicine PMR

Description: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) may develop as a disproportionate consequence of a trauma affecting the limbs without nerve injury (CRPS I, or reflex sympathetic dystrophy [RSD]) or with obvious nerve lesions (CRPS II, or causalgia).
Synonyms and related keywords: complex regional pain syndrome, CRPS, complex regional pain syndrome I, CRPS I, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, RSD, complex regional pain syndrome II, CRPS II, causalgia, mimo-causalgia, Sudeck atrophy of bone, shoulder-hand syndrome, algoneurodystrophy, reflex dystrophy, reflex neurovascular dystrophy
Singh et al 2008