ArticleMedical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre2013
Complex regional pain syndrome acceptance and the alternative denominations in the medical literature.
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Effectiveness and Safety of NXsignal Applied Surface Neurostimulation Technology for the Treatment of Type I Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS I)
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Physiotherapy for pain and disability in adults with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) types I and II.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Physiotherapy for pain and disability in adults with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) types I and II.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Does Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Fall Within the Spectrum of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome? A Narrative Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2025Review
- Comprehensive Mechanisms and Non-Invasive Treatment for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Narrative Review.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- Mechanisms of complex regional pain syndrome.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Thirty-year survey of bibliometrics used in the research literature of pain: Analysis, evolution, and pitfalls.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Bier block as a successful management of a patient with intractable complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type 1: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2021Article
- Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome: New Terminology for a New Era.Journal of pain research · 2021Article
- Complex regional pain syndrome - Autoimmune or functional neurologic syndrome.Journal of translational autoimmunity · 2021Review
- Neuromodulation of the Dorsal Root Ganglion for Chronic Postsurgical Pain.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2019Article
- Physical therapy in patients with complex regional pain syndrome type I after distal radius fracture: a case series.Journal of physical therapy science · 2019Article
- Terminology, criteria, and definitions in complex regional pain syndrome: challenges and solutions.Journal of pain research · 2015Review
- Algodystrophy: complex regional pain syndrome and incomplete forms.Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism : the official journal of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism, and Skeletal DiseasesArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo analyze the use of the term 'complex regional pain syndrome' in the medical literature and evaluate whether or not the traditional names 'reflex sympathetic dystrophy' and 'causalgia' have already been replaced with the new terms 'complex regional pain syndrome type I' and 'complex regional pain syndrome type II', respectively. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe Scopus and PubMed databases were searched for reports written between 2001 and 2012 for the following descriptors in the titles: 'complex regional pain syndrome', 'complex regional pain syndrome type I', 'complex regional pain syndrome type 1', 'complex regional pain syndrome type II', 'complex regional pain syndrome type 2', 'CRPS', 'CRPS type I', 'CRPS type 1', 'CRPS type II', 'CRPS type 2', 'reflex sympathetic dystrophy', 'algodystrophy', 'algoneurodystrophy', 'causalgia', 'transient osteoporosis', 'Sudeck', and 'shoulder-hand syndrome'.
resultsSystematization of the 1,318 articles found yielded the following: 953 (72.31%) articles for the descriptor 'complex regional pain syndrome' and a further 94 (7.13%) for its abbreviation 'CRPS'; 180 (13.66%) for 'reflex sympathetic dystrophy'; 33 (2.50%) for 'shoulder-hand syndrome'; 29 (2.20%) for 'algodystrophy'; 13 (0.99%) for 'causalgia'; 13 (0.99%) for 'Sudeck'; 2 (0.15%) for 'algoneurodystrophy', and 1 (0.08%) for 'transient osteoporosis'. The total number of articles using new terminology represents 1,047 (79.44%) of all articles.
conclusionThe new neutral term 'complex regional pain syndrome' was most commonly used and will likely replace the traditional names 'reflex sympathetic dystrophy' and 'causalgia'. The new terminology is now widely accepted by the medical professionals who are mostly engaged in the treatment of CRPS patients, but not yet so in other medical spheres.
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