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COMPLEX REGIONAL<br />

PAIN SYNDROME:<br />

New Hope After a<br />

Decade of Dispelling Myths<br />

BY BRADLEY S. GALER, MD<br />

Stephen Spagnoli<br />

C Fibers Backfiring<br />

Mixed Media on Canvas 30x60<br />

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)<br />

is a perplexing condition that has been<br />

relatively ignored and misunderstood by the<br />

medical community because it is so unusual.<br />

Perhaps the confusion that is invoked by this<br />

condition is precisely due to its atypical clinical<br />

presentation: the pain in CRPS patients<br />

does not follow a pattern expected in painful<br />

neurologic conditions, the affected body part<br />

changes color and temperature quite dramat -<br />

ically, and patients often display protective<br />

behavior that looks odd to a practitioner.<br />

T H E PA I N P R A C T I T I O N E R | V O L U M E 16 , N U M B E R 1 | 33

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