Trauma and Complex Regional Pain Syndromes

A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature for Personal Injury Lawyers

Publisher: Medifocus Legal
Publication Date: August 23, 2022
Number of Pages: 96

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic and often debilitating pain condition most often affecting one of the extremities following trauma to a limb. Although the pathophysiology of CRPS is poorly understood, it is thought to involve either an injury or a malfunction of the peripheral and central nervous systems. Two types of CRPS have been recognized that share the same clinical symptoms and treatments. CRPS-I, formerly called reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) where the pain is not associated with an identifiable nerve injury and CRPS-II, formerly known as causalgia, where the pain can be traced to a nerve injury. The one common cardinal feature of both types of CRPS is severe pain that is disproportionate to the initial trauma or insult which, in many cases, can be minor. In addition to severe and unremitting pain that can lead to physical disabilities, people with CRPS are also prone to developing a variety of mental disorders such as depression, fear, and anxiety.

Litigating CRPS cases can be challenging because there is no single diagnostic test to confirm CRPS and the diagnosis is often based on the patient’s medical history and signs and symptoms. Distinguishing CRPS from other conditions that can cause similar symptoms is also challenging from a diagnostic perspective. Since many people with CRPS gradually improve over time, diagnosis may be more difficult later in the course of the disorder. Moreover, the treatment of CRPS is also challenging and is often protracted thereby leading to considerable claim expenses for both medical care and disability benefits. Treatment failure in CRPS is not uncommon and a subgroup of patients continue to experience severe, chronic pain that can cause functional impairment, absence from work, psychological disturbances, and a reduced quality of life.

Experienced trial lawyers have learned that one way to maximize their success with CRPS cases is to read the literature. A substantial body of literature has been published over the past 2 decades in well respected medical journals implicating trauma as the leading cause of CRPS and documenting the severe and often debilitating nature of the pain that frequently necessitates long-term ongoing treatment for people with CRPS. Finding the critical articles that can help attorneys support their claims in CRPS cases, however, can be a tricky and time-consuming process. Medifocus Legal has solved this problem by researching the medical literature and compiling a reference Guide of over 140 hand-picked journal articles specifically for personal injury lawyers who litigate these often hard-fought CRPS cases.

Trauma and Complex Regional Pain Syndromes is a one-of-a-kind literature reference Guide that includes:

• A comprehensive bibliography of 218 journal article references indexed in MEDLINE published in well respected medical and scientific journals.
• Online access to the abstracts (summaries) of the articles.
• Online access to the free full-text version of 21 articles.
• Links to full-text sources of other articles that are available for purchase directly from individual journal publishers.
• A unique “Author Directory” consisting of the names and institutional affiliations of experts who have published and have specialized knowledge about Trauma and Complex Regional Pain Syndromes . The “Author Directory” is a valuable resource for quickly identifying and locating experts for case reviews, opinions, and testimony.

Select examples of topics that are covered by the articles referenced in this Guidebook include:

• Lawsuit verdicts and settlements involving reflex sympathetic dystrophy and complex regional pain syndrome.
• Complex regional pain syndrome: the role of the psychiatrist as an expert witness.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Distal Radius Fracture: Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
• The long-term effect of complex regional pain syndrome type 1 on disability and quality of life after foot injury.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Following Total Knee Arthroplasty.
• Complex regional pain syndrome: A rare but potentially disabling complication of transradial cardiac catheterization.
• Complex regional pain syndrome following a centipede bite: a case report.
• Factors associated with complex regional pain syndrome type I in patients with surgically treated distal radius fracture.
• How big of a threat is needlestick-injury-induced complex regional pain syndrome?
• Health-related quality of life in 975 patients with complex regional pain syndrome type 1.
• Complex regional pain syndrome type I: incidence and risk factors in patients with fracture of the distal radius.
• Complex regional pain syndrome type I after diphtheria-tetanus (Di-Te) vaccination.
• Symptom validity testing in medically unexplained pain: a chronic regional pain syndrome type 1 case series.
• A review of psychosocial factors in complex regional pain syndrome.
• Complex regional pain syndrome following spine surgery.
• Acute worsening of clinical presentation in CRPS after SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination: a case series.
• Complex regional pain syndrome following transfemoral catheterization.
• Complex regional pain syndrome after hand surgery.
• Development of Upper Extremity Complex Regional Pain Syndrome After Prolonged Surgery in Lithotomy Position.
• Complex regional pain syndrome (CPRS type I) after a burn injury of the hand.

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