OBJECTIVE To evaluate television and simultaneous electronic devices use in adolescents with musculoskeletal pain and musculoskeletal pain syndromes. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed in 299 healthy adolescents of a private school. All students completed a self-administered questionnaire, including: demographic data, physical activities, musculoskeletal pain symptoms, and use of s...

As suggested by this article, considerable advances in clinical management and research have taken place during the past 20 years. Although mechanisms underlying the pain syndrome CRPS I and CRPS II remain far from one's understanding, glimpses of the pathophysiology are beginning to take shape. There is now strong evidence that these syndromes exemplify a complex neurologic disease involving t...

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is characterised by constant regional neuropathic pain that is usually associated with abnormal sensory, autonomic, motor and/or trophic changes. Though it usually develops after trauma to a limb, in CRPS pain is disproportionate in time or intensity to the usual course of pain after injury. There are two subtypes of CRPS: in type I no overt nerve lesion ca...

Since the early musings in the mid-1800s of Claude Bernard and his French neurological colleagues on the association of pain with the sympathetic nervous system, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) has both fascinated and perplexed practitioners. Some of the clearest and most interesting descriptions of `causalgia' come from the American Civil War by one of Bernard's students, Silas Weir-Mitc...

Not all spinal contusions result in mechanical allodynia, in which non-noxious stimuli become noxious. The studies presented use the NYU impactor at 12.5 mm drop or the Infinite Horizons Impactor (150 kdyn, 1 s dwell) devices to model spinal cord injury (SCI). Both of these devices and injury parameters, if done correctly, will result in animals with above level (forelimb), at level (trunk) and...

Myofascial Pain Dysfucntion Syndrome is a heterogeneous group of signs and symptoms that affect the jaw joint and/or the chewing musculature. Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is defined as pain that originates from myofascial trigger points in skeletal muscle. It is prevalent in regional musculoskeletal pain syndromes, either alone or in combination with other pain generators like Temporomandibul...

Pain syndromes of cervical osteochondrosis are among the most common in neurological practice. The complex anatomic and physiological features spine result a variety clinical case osteochondrosis. formation refl ex compression steochondrosis were identifi ed as examination. In patients with pain syndromes, distribution over sclerotome myotome areas (myosclerotome pain)
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The occurrence of CRPS after a snake bite was very rare, only two cases were reported worldwide. Here we report a case that the 44-year-old female patient bitten by snakes CRPS type 1 was treated consecutive intravenous regional block, lumbar sympathectomy and antiepileptic drug therapy, also discuss the possible pathophysiology.

This case report describes the remarkable recovery of a patient with very long-standing, medically intractable and disabling, lower-limb, complex regional pain syndrome type II following the resection, crushing, and relocation of sensory nerves.