Complex Regional Pain Syndrome SIG: Early Career Research Showcase

During this webinar, we showcased the research of early career researchers in the field of CRPS. In this recording, the findings of four recent studies involving patients with CRPS were featured:

A community-driven project to establish the information needs of people living with CRPS.
Phenomenological interviews with consumers across Australia identified a clear need for patient information at the time of diagnosis, informing the development of an infographic co-designed with consumers, industry partners, and a CRPS pain specialist.

A longitudinal study to assess early prognostic factors in CRPS.
Preliminary results from a large ongoing prospective cohort study of patients with early CRPS was shared, specifically focused on the identification of biopsychosocial prognostic factors (i.e., which patients recover, and why?) and potential subtypes.

Understanding variability in body perception disturbances and how this can inform personalized virtual reality rehabilitation.
This presentation explored how patients with CRPS can be grouped according to the severity and nature of body perception disturbances, patients’ desires for changes to their affected limb, and how changes in body perception can inform novel rehabilitation approaches.

Visuospatial attentional bias in CRPS.
Using temporal visual order tasks, visuospatial attentional bias was explored in patients with CRPS to establish whether it is specific to the personal space of the affected limb, or generalizes to the personal space of other parts of the affected side of the body.

Participants include:
Colleen Johnston-Devin, PhD
Marc-Henri Louis, MD
Caitlin Naylor
Monika Halicka
Michael Ferraro
Janet Bultitude, PhD