Understanding Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
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Source: Consultant Live - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment
The associated pain is often described as burning. In most cases of CRPS, sudomotor and vascular changes will occur, most notably edema and changes in blood flow resulting in skin temperature changes in the affected body part. (Source: Consultant Live)
Source: Consultant Live - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

ARA29 in a Rat Model of Inflammatory Pain
Chronic pain affects as many as one in five people. A proportion of patients with symptoms of neuropathic ­pain do not have clinical signs of any obvious tissue or nerve injury. Such patients include those with diffuse limb pain, back pain, and complex regional pain syndrome type 1. These patients remain a clinical enigma. However, through the development of the neuritis model, it has become apparent that local nerve inflammation in the absence of gross pathology (i.e., axonal degeneration and demyelination) may underlie part of the mechanisms of pain. In this chapter, we describe a method to induce the neuritis model....
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biochemistry - March 6, 2013 Category: Biochemistry Source Type: news