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Rachel Aubrey
What is it?
Additional Symptoms: Headache, Difficulty Sleeping, Fatigue, Difficulty Concentrating, Memory Loss
Stage 1- Dysfunction
Stage 2- Dystrophy
Evaluation
•History
•MMT
•ROM
•Sensation
•Brush allodynia test
Goals
• Contrast baths
• Edema control and desensitization
• Picking up items in the water
• Vibration to bucket
• Mirror therapy
• Different textures, light touch à firm touch, joint mobs, mirror therapy +
contrast baths, vibration
• Gait training / treadmill training
• Weightbearing
• Aquatic Therapy- if they can tolerate it
• Gate control theory- stimulating as many nerves as possible to close the gate on
pain signals.
• Estim on at all times
• HEP
• This is super important for CRPS patients
• The more desensitization they do the better.
• Contrast baths, stretching, estim
It depends.. hahaha