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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Fibromyalgia Class for Continuing Education Credit

Fundraising Flyer for PT/OT CME Program

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Tools

CRPS Slide Kit (Revised October 2006)

Clinical Treatment Guidelines

Hospital Protocol for the CRPS Patient: Handle With Care!
The document goes lists over two dozen specific suggestions for a care plan in areas including: setting up the patient room, performing medical procedures, taking blood pressure and pulse rate, transporting, feeding, and identifying CRPS patients.

"Telltale Signs of CRPS" HandiCard
HandiCard-two-sided laminated card with a pain scale on one side and symptoms on the other.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Hope Now and for the Future
By Bradley S. Galer, MD
Vice President of Nuvo Research, Inc.

Articles

Medical Article Archive
A library of articles on CRPS from the leading professional journals.

The Pain Practitioner Special CRPS Issue

Ketamine: Does Life Begin at 40?

Does CRPS Spread?
By Steve Stanos, DO
Medical Director, Chronic Pain Care Center, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Seven Tips for Managing Pain Patients after they Return from the Specialist
By Bill McCarlberg, MD
Founder, Chronic Pain Management Program, Kaiser Permanente

When the shoe is on the other foot...
By Melanie Swan, OTR/L

The Craftsman and His Tools
By Norman Harden, MD

Focus on Dr. Robert J. Schwartzman

Recognizing and Managing Breakthrough Pain in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
By Howard L. Rosner, MD

Presentations from the Second International Update on CRPS
San Diego, September 11-12, 2004

Treatment of Movement Disorders Associated with CRPS
By Dr. JJ van Hilten
Department of Neurology, Leiden Unvesity Medical Center, The Netherlands

Co-Morbidity and CRPS: Implications for Treatment
By Stephen Bruehl, PhD
Vanderbilt Univesity School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

RSD/CRPS: What's in a Name? Taxonomy and its Revisions
By Stephen Bruehl, PhD
Vanderbilt Univesity School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome I: Clinical Presentation and Diagnositic Workup
By Srinivasa N. Raja, MD
Director of Pain Research, Division of Pain Medicine, Professor of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Approach to Treating the Person with CRPS
By Dennis C. Turk, PhD
John and Emma Bonica Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain DoeResearch, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington

Update on CRPS
By Joshua P. Prager, MD, MS
Director, California Pain Medicine Centers at UCLA: Center for the Rehabilitation of Pain Syndromes (CRPS), Los Angeles, California

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Pathophysiology
By Mark S. Wallace, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego

Is There a Visceral Component of CRPS?
By Thomas Janicki, MD, Associate Clincal Professor of Reproductive Biology, CASE School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio

Videos Available Online
The following are presentations from the 2002 International Update in Tampa, Florida. Download Windows Media player for free here.

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Updated January 9, 2008

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