Table 1. International Association for the Study of Pain Diagnostic Criteria for Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1.
Diagnostic Criteria for Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 | |
1 | Presence of an initiating noxious event or a cause of immobilization |
2 | Continuing pain, allodynia, or hyperalgesia with which pain is disproportionate to any inciting event |
3 | Evidence at some time of edema, changes in skin blood flow, or abnormal sudomotor activity in the region of the pain |
4 | Diagnosis is excluded by the existence of conditions that would otherwise account for the degree of pain and dysfunction |