Session: Breaking Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndromes

	23rd Annual Meeting February 7-10, 2007 New Orleans, LA
Annual Meeting Highlights Supported by an educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc. © 2006 American Academy of Pain Medicine


Saturday, February 10, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Breaking Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
Functional MRI (fMRI) provides a new window to view brain changes that occur, and that can possibly be reversed, in patients with complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS). Innovative treatments are being used increasingly to treat the central and more peripheral presentations of the syndromes. This symposium provides an in-depth view of the use for fMRI to examine CRPS. Novel treatments such as use of ketamine and cytokine inhibition to treat central components of the syndrome are described in detail. Use of Botulinum toxin to interrupt cholinergic transmission in the sympathetic pathway is explained.

Submitter:	Joshua P. Prager, M.D., M.S.
Moderator:	Joshua P. Prager, M.D., M.S.
8:30 AM		Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM		Functional MRI to Describe Changes in Brain Activity in CRPS Sean Mackey, MD, PhD
9:00 AM		Role of Cytokines in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of CRPS Guillermo Alexander, PhD
9:25 AM		Rationale and Use of Intravenous Ketamine for Treating CRPS Robert Schwartzman, M.D.
10:00 AM		Review of Breaking Concepts in CRPS Joshua P. Prager, MD, MS
10:15 AM		Question and Answer Session