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Key questions on complex regional pain syndrome (1.5 CPD hours)

Pain medicine consultant Dr Andreas Goebel answers questions from GP Dr Mandy Fry on this difficult condition.

Learning objectives


This module will give you a primary-care focused update on complex regional pain syndrome:

  • Diagnosing CRPS
  • The prognosis for a patient with CRPS
  • Referring patients to pain specialists
  • Treating CRPS with anticonvulsants and antidepressants
  • complementary therapies

This module will be available free to all registered members of Pulse Learning until 21 December.

Author


Dr Andreas Goebel is senior lecturer and honorary consultant in pain medicine at Liverpool University and The Walton Centre NHS Trust

Dr Mandy Fry is a GP in Cirencester and senior primary care lecturer at Oxford Brookes University

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