Dear Madam or Sir,
We are writing to you on behalf of the IASP Special Interest Group (SIG) for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS (formerly ‘Pain and the Sympathetic Nervous System’). We are interested in whether CRPS is a problem in your country and, if so, how you deal with it, and whether or not you would be interested in working together with us towards reducing the burden of CRPS in your country and ours.
As you may be aware, we have recently devised guidelines for the management of CRPS in the Netherlands, Germany, the US, and the UK (referenced below), however we’d like to learn more about you how you treat your patients.
We would be grateful if you might consider completing this questionnaire on CRPS and its management in your country – or forward it to someone whom you think is best suited to complete it.
We have sent this questionnaire to all IASP national chapter leads; we will collate responses, and then would like to begin to engage in a dialogue on how we can achieve reduced illness burden from CRPS in our countries.
Sincerely
Yours
Andreas Goebel, Roberto Perez, Lorimer Moseley, Candy McCabe
