As the wet, cold winter weather sets in, many people with CRPS notice a sharp increase in their pain and dysfunction. Let’s discuss why some of this happens and a few practical actions that may help mitigate it. This pain increase is primarily due to our vasomotor dysfunction, which as a result exacerbates nociceptive small … Read More “CRPS and Cold Weather: Increased Pain Due to Dropping Temperatures” »
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A simplified summary of Schwartzman’s 2013 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Systemic Complications, reviewing the severe, longstanding subtype, which has spread, has all of the syndrome’s components, and whose full significance is frequently overlooked or misunderstood.
Breakdown of the 2021 paper The Valencia consensus-based adaption of the IASP complex regional pain syndrome diagnostic criteria by Goebel et al, regarding perceived ambiguities in the Budapest Criteria and creating pragmatic updates to the assessment instructions for the ICD-11.
Breakdown of the 2011 Spreading of complex regional pain syndrome: not a random process by van Rijn et al discussing Single-CRPS vs Multiple-CRPS and spontaneous spread vs spread after a separate trauma. a video essay.
Breakdown of the 2011 Spreading of complex regional pain syndrome: not a random process by van Rijn et al discussing Single-CRPS vs Multiple-CRPS and spontaneous spread vs spread after a separate trauma. a video essay.
Breaking down the 2020 paper A role for microbiota in complex regional pain syndrome? by Crock & Baldridge, discussing how our gut microbiome may play a part in the development, maintenance, and treatment of CRPS. a video essay.
Breaking down the 2008 journal paper Abnormal Gray-White Matter Interactions in Emotional and Autonomic Regions, part 2, discussing gray matter atrophy and white matter connectivity in CRPS. A video essay.
Breaking down the 2008 journal paper Abnormal Gray-White Matter Interactions in Emotional and Autonomic Regions, part 1, discussing gray matter atrophy and white matter connectivity in CRPS. A video essay.
Breaking down the 2008 journal paper Abnormal Gray-White Matter Interactions in Emotional and Autonomic Regions, super simple version, discussing gray matter atrophy and white matter connectivity in CRPS. A video essay.
Simplified breakdown of Wasner’s 2010 Vasomotor Disturbances journal article. A video essay.