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Old 10-29-2014, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ShaggyChic_1201 View Post
The Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC is starting a trial for CRPS. 5 days inpatient plus epidural, 4 hr infusions at 1, 2, & 3 months after, plus f/u visits.

Trial commitment is 6 months and probably won't begin until January, 2015.

Control group gets epidural and sedative, which would offer some relief at least.

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Here is the link to the trial: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02094352

Are you sure that the control group will be getting an epidural infusion with pain medications? It reads to me like it will be a 'saline' epidural infusion?

Thanks for sharing,
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