CRPS After Minor Electrical Injury: Diagnosis, Disuse, Causation, and Medicolegal Analysis
Complex regional pain syndrome, commonly called CRPS, is one of the most challenging diagnoses in medicolegal evaluation. It is painful, disabling, controversial, and often poorly understood. In workers’ compensation, personal injury, disability, and independent medical examination settings, CRPS may be alleged after fractures, sprains, surgery, crush injuries, burns, electrical exposures, or even seemingly minor trauma.