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Examples of causalgia
causalgia
The discovery may lead to better drugs to treat the condition, known as causalgia.
From the newscientist.com
First described after the Civil War, causalgia can appear after accidental nerve traumas, such as automobile crush injuries and industrial mishaps.
From the sciencedaily.com
Researchers believe that causalgia occurs because the process of wound healing increases the number of adrenergic receptors in nerve cells.
From the newscientist.com
Health psychology attempts to find treatments to reduce and eliminate pain, as well as understand pain anomalies such as episodic analgesia, causalgia, neuralgia, and phantom limb pain.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Causalgia involves the spontaneous occurrence of persistent burning pain that begins days or weeks after traumatic injury to a large nerve, usually in a limb.
From the sciencedaily.com
American doctors first noted the symptoms of causalgia after the Civil War, when soldiers complained of a burning, persistent pain set off by a light touch or emotional distress, for instance.
From the newscientist.com
- A burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changes
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic progressive disease characterized by severe pain, swelling and changes in the skin. There is no cure. The International Association for the Study of Pain has divided CRPS into two types based on the presence of nerve lesion following the injury. ...
- A constant, burning type pain
- Pain, usually burning, that is associated with autonomic changes -- change in color of the skin, change in temperature, change in sweating, swelling. Causalgia occurs after a nerve injury.
- A persistent, often severe burning pain usually resulting from injury to a peripheral nerve.
- An intense burning pain following an injury to a sensory nerve.
- A burning pain and sensitivity to vibration or touch, usually in the hand or foot, at a site removed from an injury of a peripheral nerve that has healed.
- Persistent severe burning sensation of the skin, usually following direct or indirect (vascular) injury of sensory fibers of a peripheral nerve, accompanied by cutaneous changes (temperature and sweating).
- Burning pain associated with previous tissue injury (sympathetic dystrophy)
