Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Alternate Names : Causalgia, CRPS, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome, RSDS, Shoulder-Hand Syndrome, Sudeck's Atrophy
Treatment
Usually, the recommended treatment will include a combination of therapies. These will include:
- Medications -- pain medicines, steroids, blood pressure medicines that work on the sympathetic nervous system, bone loss medications (such as Actonel), and antidepressants
- Physical or occupational therapy
- Applications of heat and cold
- The use of a TENS (trancutaneous electrical nerve stimulator) unit
- Biofeedback
- Nerve blocks (injecting medicine to numb the affected nerves or pain fibers around the spinal column)
- Surgical sympathetomy (radical surgical that involves cutting the nerves to destroy the pain, but other sensations may be destroyed also)
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