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What Causes Sudden Pain On One Region Of Your Head?
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain condition that can affect any area of the body, but often affects an arm or a leg.
Alternative Names
CRPS; RSDS; Causalgia - RSD; Shoulder-hand syndrome; Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome; Sudeck's atrophy
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Doctors aren't sure what causes CRPS. In some cases, the sympathetic nervous system plays an important role in the pain. Another theory is that CRPS is caused by a...
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Nerve Loss with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Consequence or...
Source: eOrthopod
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a mystery. Every year 15,000 people in the United States are affected. After trauma of some kind to the arm... Read more »
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Source: eOrthopod
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Source: eOrthopod
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Source: eOrthopod
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Source: eOrthopod
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