Classification of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Langford
- Minor causalgia
- Purely sensory nerve to distal portion of limb
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Minor Tramatic dystrophy
- Most common type
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Shoulder hand syndrome
- Proximal trauma or painful visceral lesion (shoulder or neck injury, cervical disc, PU, MI, pancost tumour etc)
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Major traumatic dystrophy
- Trauma that produces swelling, redess, dysfunction e.g. crush injuries & colles fractures head list
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Major causalgia
- Partial injury to major mixed nerve in proximal part of extremity
