Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I: Update on Therapeutic Coverage

Algodystrophy; Medicinal treatment; Psychological coverage; Reeducation

Authors

  • Saloua Khalfaoui Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Military Instruction Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
  • El Mustapha El Abbassi Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Military Instruction Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
January 6, 2020

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Management of the algodystrophy is not limited to the management of pain. It can turn out to be difficult, in front of pathology with an evolution which is known by severe pains, incapacitating and most of time refractory to usual analgesic treatments. The functional echo is often severe; the persistence of pains is besides frequently responsible of unfavorable psychological echo. In the absence of a definite curative treatment of the algodystrophy, every doctor has to consider immediately, facing a trauma, an illness or a therapeutic act may become complicate of an algodystrophy, early coverage as soon as possible and efficient of the pain to put the patient in best conditions in order to prevent such a complication.

The best approach is then multidisciplinary; especially for patients with treatment failure referred to the pain centers. It associates with different degrees a medicinal and / or infiltrative treatment, a psychological approach, a reeducation, and an irregular reevaluation in a view of a vocational integration.