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Papers: 25 Jun 2022 - 1 Jul 2022


Human Studies


2022


Front Psychol


13

Body Structural Description Impairment in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I.

Authors

Biran I, Book A, Aviram L, Bregman N, Bahagali E, Tripto A
Front Psychol. 2022; 13:853641.
PMID: 35756256.

Abstract

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a clinical syndrome composed of chronic pain, motor impairment, and autonomic dysfunction, usually affecting a limb. Although CRPS seems to be a peripheral disorder, it is accompanied by parietal alterations leading to body schema impairments (the online representations of the body). Impairments to body structural description (the topographical bodily map) were not assessed systematically in CRPS. A patient we encountered with severe disruption to her bodily structural description led us to study this domain further.