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HISTORY
OF
REFLEX
SYMPATHETIC DYSFUNCTION
| From: |
| Chronic
Pain: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Prevention and Management |
| CRC Press,
Boca Raton, Florida |
| H.
Hooshmand, M.D. |
History
| Year |
Author |
Contribution |
| 1700 |
Potts |
Burning pain and atrophy in
injured extremity |
| 1813 |
Denmark |
Amputation for treatment of
pain |
| 1853 |
Bernard |
Role of sympathetic system
in temperature control |
| 1878 |
Bernard |
Role of sympathetic system
in sustaining the balance of internal environment (Mileu Interne) |
| 1864 |
S. Weir
Mitchell |
Erythromelalgia |
| 1867 |
S. Weir
Mitchell |
Causalgia |
| 1882 |
Volkmann |
Posttraumatic bone
rarefaction: "acute atrophy of bone" |
| 1898 |
Destot |
Singular osteoporosis due to
longstanding sprained ankle |
| 1900 |
Sudek |
Atrophy and bone rarefaction
secondary to nerve damage |
| 1901 |
Santorio |
Thermoscope |
| 1908 |
Bier |
The first regional block |
| 1916 |
Leriche |
Sympathectomy |
| 1923 |
Orbeli |
Antifatigue effect of
sympathetic nerves (Orbeli effect) |
| 1926 |
Leriche |
Sympathetic nerve roots
dysfunction as cause of pain |
| 1926 |
Barré |
Barré-Lieou syndrome,
cervical pathology involving sympathetic nerves surrounding vertebral
arteries causing vertigo, blurred vision, and pain in the arms |
| Year |
Author |
Contribution |
| 1928 |
Lieou |
Sympathetic involvement in
cervical spine pathology (Barré-Lieou syndrome) |
| 1929 |
Zue Verth |
Peripheral acute
trophoneurosis |
| 1931 |
Morton and
Scott |
Traumatic angiospasm |
| 1932 |
Hisey |
Brain as an endocrine gland
(controlling ovulation) |
| 1933 |
Fontaine and
Herrmann |
Posttraumatic osteoporosis
and bone rarefaction |
| 1934 |
Lehman |
Traumatic vasospasm |
| 1937 |
DeTakats |
Reflex dystrophy |
| 1940 |
Homans |
Minor causalgia (in contrast
to Mitchell's major causalgia) |
| 1940 |
Ray and Wolff |
Trigeminal nerve role in
cranial vascular headache |
| 1943 |
Livingston |
Vicious circle of inactivity
and pain resulting in RSD |
| 1947 |
Steinbrocker |
1. Reflex neurovascular
dystrophy 2. Shoulder-hand
syndrome with atrophy of hands as a common form of RSD |
| 1947 |
Evans |
The syndrome of reflex
sympathetic dystrophy (RSDS) |
| 1947 |
Nathan |
Multiple level input of pain
to the spinal cord in RSD (mitigating against surgery): wide dynamic range
(WDR) |
| 1948 |
Sunderland |
Perpetuation of pain and RSD
at spinal cord level: "turbulence phenomenon" |
| 1955 |
Mitchell |
Sympathetic preganglionic
cell bodies in all levels of spinal cord |
| Year |
Author |
Contribution |
| 1957 |
Tracey |
Postsympathectomy pain (also
called sympathalgia pain to the spinal cord in RSD) mitigating against
surgery |
| 1964 |
Weirtz-Hoessels |
Paresis and weakness of
extremity due to RSD |
| 1970 |
Akil |
SIA (stress-induced
analgesia) in rats achieved by endorphines |
| 1971 |
Melzack |
Biasing mechanism of pain in
CNS perpetuating RSD pain |
| 1971 |
Goldstein |
Discovered opiate receptors
in the brain |
| 1973 |
Kleinert |
"Variable pain syndrome" as
symptoms of RSD |
| 1973 |
Duensing |
Thermography in nerve
injuries |
| 1973 |
Bonica |
Comprehensive 3-stage
classification of RSD; early diagnosis critical in outcome of treatment |
| 1973 |
Patman |
Mimocausalgia |
| 1974 |
Hannington-Kiff |
Gaunethidine regional block
with up to 80% relief |
| 1975 |
Lichtenstein |
Loss of vascular tone,
vasodilation, and bone resorption |
| 1976 |
Wallin |
Hyperpathic (sympathetic)
pain is different from somatic pain; injection of sympathetic amines
induces hyperpathic pain in causalgic limb but not in normal limb
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| 1976 |
Kozin |
Bilaterality in RSD; bone
scan |
| 1976 |
Travell |
Defined trigger points and
trigger point injections in management of RSD |
| 1979 |
Moskowitz |
Role of trigeminovascular
structure in vascular headache |
| Year |
Author |
Contribution |
| 1981 |
Kozin |
Diagnostic value of
scintigraphy, abnormal in 60% of RSD patients |
| 1983 |
Poplawski |
"The most important factor
in predicting improvement was ... less than 6 months between onset of RSD
and the administration of therapy" |
| 1984 |
Basbaum |
Descending analgesic
endorphin system from periaqueductal gray to spinal cord |
| 1986 |
Ochoa |
ABC phenomenon (angry
backfiring c fibers as a source of pain and RSD |
| 1986 |
Uricchio |
Thermography in
radiculopathy |
| 1988 |
Roberts |
Role of peripheral nervous
system and CNS in pathophysiology of causalgia |
| 1988 |
Wexler |
Standardized thermography
and its use in RSD |
| 1988 |
Hobins |
"Reflex sympathetic
Dysfunction" |
| 1989 |
Yokota |
Motor paresis and movement
disorder due to efferent manifestation of RSD |
| 1990 |
Schwartzman |
Movement disorders due to
RSD |
| 1991 |
Stein |
Peripheral release of
lymphocyte-mediated endorphin originates an analgesic system that is in
effect in all levels of CNS and PNS |
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