Saturday, October 11, 2008

Sympathectomy in the treatment of RSD

The book classifies the different stages of RSD and describes the qualitative and quantitative differences between natural endorphins and synthetic narcotics. Included are long-term follow-ups on sympathectomy patients. This important reference explains why sympathectomy fails, but nerve block and physiotherapy is successful in the treatment of RSD.
Author: H. Hooshmand
Chronic Pain
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780849386671
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