International Association for the Study of Pain | CRPS: Current Diagnosis and Therapy

Product Details
Publish Year: 2005 (reprint 2012)
Format: softcover, 328 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-931092-79-4

Complex regional pain syndrome is a medically and economically significant condition that is disproportionate to the inciting event. Until now, it has been difficult to make the diagnosis, but this volume presents validated diagnostic criteria for the condition. Treatment for the condition has been hampered by the lack of good clinical evidence. This volume summarizes all reported treatments and evaluates the scientific evidence for each. A treatment algorithm is presented. This is a text that will be invaluable for the clinician, and for all those who address the issues of CRPS in the medical, rehabilitation, public health, or medicolegal fields.

List of Contributing Authors
Preface

Part I: Overview of Taxonomy of Syndromes and Diseases
Section Editor: Peter R. Wilson

Introduction
John D. Loeser
Taxonomy and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Harold Merskey
Retrospection, Science and Epidemiology of CRPS
Peter R. Wilson and Nikolai Bogduk

Part II: Taxonomy and Diagnosis: Clinical Experience
Section Editor: Peter R. Wilson

Diagnostic Criteria: The Statistical Derivation of the Four Criterion Factors
R. Norman Harden and Stephen P. Bruehl
Factor I: Sensory Changes—Pathophysiology and Measurement
Anne Louise Oaklander and Frank Birklein
Factor II: Vasomotor Changes—Pathophysiology and Measurement
Gunnar Wasner and Ralf Baron
Factor III: Sudomotor Changes and Edema—Pathophysiology and Measurement
Paola Sandroni and Peter R. Wilson
Factor IV: Movement Disorders and Dystrophy—Pathophysiology and Measurement
Jacobus J. Van Hilten, Helmut Blumberg, and Robert J. Schwartzman
Laboratory Tests for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Oliver Rommel, Heinz-Joachim Häbler, and Matthias Schürmann

Part III: Management of CRPS
Section Editor: R. Norman Harden

The Rationale for Integrated Functional Restoration
R. Norman Harden
Physical and Occupational Therapies
Jan H.B. Geertzen and R. Norman Harden
Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy for CRPS and Related Conditions
Anne Louise Oaklander
Psychological Interventions
Stephen P. Bruehl
Traditional Interventional Therapies
Allen W. Burton, Timothy R. Lubenow, and P. Prithvi Raj
Implanted Therapies
Timothy R. Lubenow, Asokumar Buvanendran, and Michael Stanton-Hicks
Miscellaneous and Experimental Therapies
Michael Stanton-Hicks, Richard L. Rauck, Mark Hendrickson, and Gabor Racz
Management of Pediatric Patients with CRPS
Robert T. Wilder and Gunnar Olsson

Part IV: Epilogue
Section Editor: Peter R. Wilson

Future Perspectives
Wilfrid Jänig

Index

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"The editors have done an excellent job. I would recommend this book to anyone who treats CRPS patients regularly and wants to be up to date on the latest concepts and treatments for CRPS."
Robert Teasell, MD, FRCPC, in Pain Research and Management, Vol 10, No 2, p 113, Summer 2005

"Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is increasingly viewed as a multi-system disorder involving the sensory, sympathetic, motor and cortical components of the nervous system with regional inflammatory changes and psychosocial and functional effects. This book reflects these up to date viewpoints with excellent chapters on these topics by respected authors in the field. This book is an excellent, easy to read and topical review of the issues surrounding the diagnosis, pathophysiology and treatment of CRPS, and I strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the field."
Eric J. Vissers in Acute Pain, Vol. 7, Issue 3, August 2005

"Three editors along with twenty-six other contributing authors have put together an excellent state-of-art volume of one of the most controversial and mysterious conditions in the field of pain medicine - Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. [...] Overall, this text paints a superb picture of where clinicians and scientists are in current efforts to understand, evaluate, and treat patients with complex regional pain syndrome at a very reasonable cost."
Howard S. Smith in the Journal of Neuropathic Pain & Symptom Palliation, Vol. 2(2) 2006

"This book provides a useful update on CRPS. It is relatively short (just over 300 pages), readable and informative, and is recommended for anyone who treats patients with this condition."
R. Atcheson in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, 96 (2): 272-4 (2006)

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Peter R. Wilson, MB BS, PhD, is Professor of Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology at the May Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He is Past-President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Board of Pain Medicine, and is on the Editorial Board for Pain Medicine. He works full-time in clinical pain medicine at the Mayo Clinic, with emphasis on chronic pain syndromes.

Michael Stanton-Hicks, MB BS, Dr med, FRCA, ABPN, FIPP is Vice-Chairman, Division of Anesthesiology Pain Management and Research at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Pain Management Center, Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. His specialty interests are pain, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, regional anesthesia, and intensive care.

R. Norman Harden, MD, has served as the Director of the Center for Pain Studies since 1994 and was the founding director of the Chronic Pain Care Center at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He is an Associate Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University and is the first holder of the Robert G. Addison, MD, endowed Chair in Pain Studies.

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