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Review of CRPS (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 50(4)2004

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 
- Orthopedic Topics: Orthopaedic Complications 

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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Associated with Fractures of the Distal Radius and Ulna

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), i.e., traditional reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) or causalgia, is a frequent complicating factor following fracture of the distal radius with or without fracture of the ulna and may produce significant long-term sequelae.

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 
- OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Fractures: Radius Fractures: Distal Radius Fractures 

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Complex regional pain syndrome complicating total knee arthroplasty

Conclusion. When managed early, patients complicated with CRPS after TKA have a similar prognosis to patients with uncomplicated TKA.Complex regional pain syndrome complicating total knee arthroplasty
AWR Burns, DA Parker, MRJ Coolican, K Rajaratnam Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 2006;14(3):280-3 full text

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 
- OCOSH Classification: Orthopaedic Procedures: Arthroplasty: Replacement Arthroplasty: Knee Replacement Arthroplasty 

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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome eMedicine Emergency

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSDS) has been recognized since the Civil War when it was called causalgia, a name chosen to describe intense, burning extremity pain after an injury. Since then, RSDS has had a number of name changes. Bonica coined the term reflex sympathetic dystrophy in 1953. The American...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Page

Patient Information from Dr David Nelson but a very good review for those not that conversant with this problem.

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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Complex Regional Pain Syndromes Causalgia and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

A myriad of terms has been used to describe post-noxious or traumatic pain accompanied by autonomic dysfunction and impaired extremity capacity. The most commonly used descriptors of this condition are reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) in the United States and algodystrophy in Europe. However, the use of the term complex regional...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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Complex Regional Pain Syndromes eMedicine PMR

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,...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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Complex Regional Pain Syndromes PatientPlus

Synonyms (commonly used interchangeably although they are not strictly speaking all the same entity): reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia, Sudeck's atrophy, post traumatic dystrophy, shoulder hand dystrophy, reflex neurovascular dystrophy.
In 1979, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) stated that pain is “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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Diagnosis of post-traumatic complex regional pain syndrome of the hand

Purpose. To evaluate the role of sympathetic skin response (SSR) and three-phase bone scintigraphy (TPBS) in the diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).
Conclusion. TPBS is a very sensitive corroborative test to confirm the clinical suspicion of CRPS during the initial stages, but not in late cases. SSR can be used to document...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
“RSD” is an imprecisely used term; has been used to describe changes in soft tissue and bone;
- RSD may not involve the sympathetic nervous system and may not be the consequence of a reflex;
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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 
- Orthopedic Topics: Orthopaedic Complications 

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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy aka RSD, Sudek's Atrophy Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) affects extremities. It is also known as Sudek's atrophy. Hand-shoulder syndrome. Etiology unknown but felt to be neural s/p Trauma of any degree. Myocardial infarction (usually left hand). Post surgical. Many others. Clinically, one observes Pain. Skin findings including STS,...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 
- OCOSH Classification: Investigations: Radiology - General: Radiology - Conditions 

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reflex sympathetic dystrophy CHORUS

Sudeck dystrophy, causalgia, shoulder-hand syndrome, post-traumatic osteoporosis
* pain, tenderness, soft tissue swelling out of proportion to injury
* vasomotor instability (Raynaud, vasoconstriction/-dilation)
* end stage (6-12 months): contractures, atrophy (skin and soft tissues)
* location: hands and...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 
- OCOSH Classification: Investigations: Radiology - General: Radiology - Conditions 

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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy eMedicine Neurology

RSD is a descriptive term meaning a complex disorder or a group of disorders that may develop as a consequence of trauma affecting the limbs, with or without an obvious nerve lesion. RSD also may develop after visceral diseases or CNS lesions or, rarely, without an obvious antecedent event. It...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy eMedicine Orthopedics

Author: Satishchandra Kale, MD, FRCS 2005
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is a condition that is often described under various synonyms that point to its incompletely understood etiology. In 1864, Weir Mitchell coined the term causalgia to designate severe pain following nerve injury. In 1900, Sudeck described regional demineralization accompanying posttraumatic pain....

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy eMedicine Radiology

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is an incompletely understood response of the body to an external stimulus, resulting in pain that usually is nonanatomic and disproportionate to the inciting event or expected healing response. As early as the 1930s and 1940s, a short circuit in the reflex arc between somatic afferent...

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- OCOSH Classification: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes 

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