How is RSDSA using your donation to advance innovative research into new diagnostic methods and treatments for CRPS and other neuroinflammatory diseases? Paul Charlesworth, RSDSA board president, Karen Richards, and others share their personal stories and commitment to RSDSA. Mark Cooper, PhD, member of the RSDSA board and the Scientific Advisory Committee explains some exciting new research that could greatly impact treatment.
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Author: Siegel SM, Lee JW, Oaklander AL
Title: Needlestick Distal Nerve Injury in Rats Models Symptoms of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Source: International Anesthesia Research Society. 2007;105:1820-1829. Supported by Public Health Service grant NINDS R01NS42866, The Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association of America, and the National Organization for Rare Disorders.
Clinical Study at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York Pilot Study on Safety and Efficacy of the Non-Invasive Transcranial Stimulation to Relieve Neuropathic Pain in Patients with CRPS. Click here for details.
View the interim report of the study here.
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Research Opportunities
Free Integrative Pain Medicine Assessments Offered in Philadelphia
The Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Jefferson University in Philadelphia invites participants with chronic pain to receive a free Integrative Pain consultation and evaluation.
Participants will participate in an assessment designed to help people manage chronic pain and to study the effectiveness of an integrative treatment approach to pain.
Eligibility:
chronic pain of any kind (e.g., back pain, joint pain, headaches, etc.)
pain for at least 3 months
have never been treated for pain at the Center
(you’re still eligible to participate if you’ve treated at the Center for other disorders besides pain, or if you’ve received treatment somewhere else for pain)
To learn more, call the Center at 215-503-7329. Dr. Daniel A. Monti is the Director of the Center and conducting this study.
CRPS Research Study in San Diego
RSDSA has received information about an exciting new CRPS Research Study being conducted by the UCSD Center for Brain and Cognition. They are currently looking for study participants in the San Diego area. For details please email UCSD lab at: ramalb@ucsd.edu or call weekdays 858.534.6240.
Regional Anesthesia Military Battlefield Pain Outcomes Study (RAMBPOS)
The purpose of this study is to examine the short and long-term benefits of implementing early advanced regional anesthesia techniques for pain control, such as reducing pain disability and the incidence and severity of mental health disorders, following major traumatic injuries to extremities encountered during combat in the Iraqi/Afghanistan war.
Clinical Trials
From In Pain, Out of Work, and Can't Pay The Bills
Medifocus
Guide to Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome
A resource guide for the person with CRPS. Each guide has
current and relevant CRPS research organized into categories
for easy reading. Free updates are provided for 1 year.
ResearchMatch is a not-for-profit effort that brings together researchers and people who are willing to learn more about research studies via a secure and convenient online web portal.
ResearchMatch has a simple goal - to bring together two groups of people who are looking for one another: (1) people who are trying to find research studies, and (2) researchers who are looking for people to participate in their studies. It is a free and secure registry that has been developed by major academic institutions across the country who want to involve you in the mission of helping today's studies make a real difference for everyone's health in the future.
WBZ News
Radio show (12 MB mp3)
Jordan Rich's interview with Anne Louise Oaklander, MD,
PhD, director of the Nerve Injury Unit at Massachusetts
General Hospital, April 2006.
New Study Finds Nerve
Damage in CRPS Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have
found the first evidence of a physical abnormality underlying
CRPS I. In the February 2005 issue of the journal Pain,
they describe finding that skin affected by CRPS-I pain
appears to have lost some small-fiber nerve endings, a change
characteristic of other neuropathic pain syndromes.
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