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. 2016 May 5;11(5):e0154553. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154553

Table 6. Treatment of CRPS patients.

Treatment in patients (No) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Pharmacological Treatment
Antidepressants 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
Anticonvulsants 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
Opioids 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
NSAID 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
All 3 4 2 0 3 3 1 1 4 1 3 0 1 2 2 0 4 3 1
Other Noninvasive Treatment
Physiotherapy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Psychotherapy 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
TENS 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
All 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 0
Invasive Treatment
Interventional Therapy 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0
Other Treatment 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
All 1 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 6 0 0 0
All Therapies [n] 4 4 4 7 3 4 1 1 11 1 4 1 1 2 3 11 4 4 1
Subjective Improvement [NRS] -6 6.5 10 10 0 5 8 2 6.5 9 8 7 10 5 5 10 10 7 9
QST LoGa Classification L3G2 L2G3 L0G3 L0G2 L0G3 L3G2 L0G0 L1G2 L0G3 L0G0 L0G3 L1G3 L1G0 L0G0 L2G1 L0G3 L0G0 L1G3 L0G2
Pain [NRS] 5 5.5 3.5 2.5 2 7.5 1 2 5 0 4 0 0 3 5 1 7 5.5 1

The table shows treatment in the individual 19 patients. Subjective improvement: Improvement/worsening at time of follow-up examination compared to first examination. Antidepressants: Tricyclics. Anticonvulsants: Pregabalin, Gabapentin. Psychotherapy: Behavior therapy. Interventional therapy: Sympathetic blocks. Other treatment: Sympathectomy, spinal cord stimulation, neurodestructive procedures. Subjective improvement: Judgments by NRS in which -10 is the worst and +10 best improvement. QST hyperalgesia upon follow-up examination: LoGa Classification (Maier 2010); L0: no loss of detection, L1: only thermal loss, L2: only mechanical loss, L3: mixed loss of detection, G0: no gain (= no hyperalgesia), G1: only thermal hyperalgesia, G2: only mechanical hyperalgesia, G3: thermal and mechanical hyperalgesia. QST: Quantitative Sensory Testing, TENS: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, VAS: visual analogue scale, NRS: numerical rating scale.