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Originally Posted by Dew58
Neuropathic pain is burning pain...be it CRPS I or II, the burning pain comes by the pain receptors changing to a hyper state. The burn is still a burn.
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Of course, I certainly agree that CRPS is a type of neuropathic pain!
I am not discounting the abstract at all! After reading it, my concern is whether or not CRPS patients are included by this study at all. They may well be. Within the body of this paper, which is not included, under the heading of "Methods," the authors would (usually) have listed their inclusion and exclusion criteria. The authors may have excluded CRPS patients (and/or others) from their study or only included a certain subset of chronic pain patients; we just are not given that information in the abstract.
It is just that in research methodology, "guilty by association" doesn't work and many otherwise good papers get in trouble for over-reaching, despite peer review, readers over-interreping the findings or taking the findings of one paper and applying the results to something similar, but not the same.
I am not disputing the findings, it is a very interesting abstract, rather just trying to provide a quick crash-course in research methodology. That's all!
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