Journal article
Sympathetic blockade for complex regional pain syndrome
Pain, Vol.155(11), pp.2218-2219
2014
Abstract
In the 1990s, the dogma that sympathetic blockade was a first-line treatment for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) was shattered by accusations that benefits were due to placebo effects and that this treatment approach was “entrepreneurially inspired” [7]. Since then, systematic examination of the literature base has provided little support for the use of local anesthetic sympathetic blockade for CRPS, and has highlighted the scarcity of high-quality double-blind placebo-controlled trials with an adequate sample size and follow-up period [1,9]. However, as sympathetic blockade continues to be used therapeutically for CRPS in clinical practice [10], further examination of its efficacy is imperative...
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- Title
- Sympathetic blockade for complex regional pain syndrome
- Authors/Creators
- P.D. Drummond (Author/Creator)P.M. Finch (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Pain, Vol.155(11), pp.2218-2219
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Identifiers
- 991005542919007891
- Copyright
- © 2014 International Association for the Study of Pain
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology and Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 1 Clinical & Life Sciences
- 1.43 Anesthesiology
- 1.43.1905 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Web Of Science research areas
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- Clinical Neurology
- Neurosciences
- ESI research areas
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