Complex regional pain syndrome: practical diagnostic and treatment guidelines

"Budapest Criteria" CRPS diagnostic and treatment consensus, with explicit pediatric section. Pediatric CRPS differs from adult: female predominance, lower-extremity predominance, better prognosis, response to intensive physical therapy (without sympathetic blocks) as first line. Multi- disciplinary day-treatment programs show best outcomes; opioids contraindicated as first-line in pediatric CRPS.