Pain Exposure Physical Therapy versus conventional treatment in complex regional pain syndrome type 1-a cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyze cost-effectiveness of Pain Exposure Physical Therapy compared to conventional treatment alongside a randomized controlled trial (NCT00817128) in patients with complex regional pain syndrome type 1, where no clinical difference was shown between the two groups in an intention-to-treat analysis.

Design

Randomized controlled trial with 9 months follow-up.

Setting

Patients were recruited from hospitals and general practitioners in the region around a university hospital.

Subjects

A total of 56 patients, 45 (80.4%) female, were randomized. About 4 patients in the intervention and 11 patients in the conventional group switched groups. The mean (SD) age was 44.3 (16.6) years, and in 37 (66.1%) patients, the upper extremity was affected.

Interve

SUBMITTER: Barnhoorn K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5971370 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature