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CRPS findings can change in type and intensity over time. Temperature or skin-color asymmetry, swelling, sweating abnormalities, sensory changes, and movement limitations may be more apparent at some examinations than others. Reviewing the longitudinal record can help distinguish historically reported symptoms from objective signs documented at a particular evaluation and show how the clinical pattern evolved.
No. Continuing pain that is disproportionate to any inciting event is required under the Budapest clinical criteria, but pain alone is not sufficient for diagnosis. The patient must report at least one symptom in three of four categories, sensory, vasomotor, sudomotor or edema, and motor or trophic, and must display at least one objective sign in two or more of those categories at the time of evaluation. No other diagnosis should better explain the signs and symptoms.
No. There is no single imaging, electrodiagnostic, laboratory, or bone-scan finding that independently confirms CRPS. These studies may provide supportive information or help identify another neurological, vascular, musculoskeletal, or other condition that could explain the symptoms. The diagnosis is primarily clinical and depends on the overall pattern of symptoms, observed signs, and exclusion of a better explanation.
Documented nerve injury may affect CRPS subtype classification. CRPS Type I is generally used when a qualifying nerve injury is not identified, while CRPS Type II is associated with an identifiable nerve injury and was historically called causalgia. The same core CRPS diagnostic criteria apply to both types, so evidence of nerve injury by itself does not establish CRPS.
No. Fractures, surgery, and other injuries commonly precede CRPS, but the sequence of events alone does not establish individual causation. The analysis may consider the nature of the injury or procedure, when regional pain and associated signs developed, how the findings progressed, prior medical history, intervening events, and whether another neurological, vascular, musculoskeletal, or pain condition better explains the presentation.
