TitleReflex Sympathetic Dystrophy [electronic resource] / edited by Michael Stanton-Hicks, Wilfrid Jรคnig, Robert A. Boas
ImprintBoston, MA : Springer US, 1990
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0685-6
Descript XIX, 210 p. online resource

CONTENT

Section I General Considerations -- 1. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy: Clinical features -- 2. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy: Incidence and epidemiology -- 3. Chronic pain mechanisms -- 4. Sympathetically maintained pain principles of diagnosis and therapy -- 5. Psychosomatic aspects of reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- Section II Basic Researches in Pathophysiology of RSD -- 6. Pathobiology of reflex sympathetic dystrophy: Some general considerations -- 7. Spinal hyperexcitability in sympathetically maintained pain -- 8. Neuropharmacologies aspects of reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- 9. Clinical and neurophysiological observations relating to pathophysiological mechanisms of reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- 10. Mechanisms and role of peripheral blood flow dysregulation in pain sensation and edema in reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- Section III Therapeutic Techniques in BSD -- 11. Sympathetic nerve blocks: Their role in sympathetic pain -- 12. Intravenous regional sympathetic blocks -- 13. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy โ Neurosurgical approaches -- 14. Peripheral nerve stimulator implant for treatment of RSD -- 15. Psychological support of the patient with reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- 16. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy non-invasive methods of treatment -- 17. Multi-disciplinary management of reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- Section IV New Techniques -- 18. Three-phase bone scanning in reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- 19. An investigation of the role of clonidine in the treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- Summary Comments -- Proposed Definition of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy


SUBJECT

  1. Medicine
  2. Anesthesiology
  3. Medicine & Public Health
  4. Anesthesiology