Amplified musculoskeletal pain syndromes are pain syndromes where excessive, acute and chronic pain are observed for which no overt primary cause can be found or surmised.[1]
Amplified musculoskeletal pain syndromes include:[2]
- complex regional pain syndrome, Types I & II (formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and Causalgia),
- fibromyalgia,
- diffuse idiopathic pain (also called diffuse amplified pain),
- localized idiopathic pain (also called localized amplified pain),
- neuropathic pain,
- reflex neurovascular dystrophy
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