NCT04597866

Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, a Long-term Follow-up

Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, a Qualitative Interview Study and a Case Series With Long-term Follow-up

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Uppsala University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Complex regional pain syndrome, CRPS, is an uncommon but often very disabling chronic pain syndrome characterized by, beside pain: sensory disturbances, peripheral autonomic changes and inflammatory features. The diagnosis is subdivided in CRPS type 1 where no nerve injury has been identified, and CRPS type 2 when a major nerve injury has been verified. A combination of exposure in vivo, a form of behaviour therapy where the patient is gradually confronted with avoided movements and activities, and interventions directly targeting a hypothesized cortical reorganisation is an interesting novel approach for treating CRPS. The present study consists of (1) a qualitative interview study with 10-15 subjects that has received this form of treatment, in order to better understand their experience and effects of the treatment, and (2) a case series with long-term follow-up of 3-5 subjects that received the treatment för 5-8 years ago, in order to study the long term effects of the treatment.

Conditions

• Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multimodal rehabilitation	A combination of exposure in vivo and interventions directly targeting the cortical reorganization for treating CRPS.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-21
• Primary completion: 2021-06-30
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2020-10-22
• Last updated: 2024-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden