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Table 1 Budapest clinical diagnostic criteria for CRPS [21] that served as inclusion criteria for this study

From: ICF-based multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for complex regional pain syndrome of the hand: efficacy, long-term outcomes, and impact of therapy duration

(1) Continuing pain, which is disproportionate to any inciting event

(2) Must report at least one symptom in three of the four following categories:

Sensory: reports of hyperesthesia and/or allodynia

 Sudomotor/edema: reports of edema and/or sweating changes and/or sweating asymmetry

 Motor/trophic: reports of decreased range of motion and/or motor dysfunction (weakness, tremor, dystonia) and/or trophic changes (hair, nail, skin)

(3) Must display at least one sign at time of evaluation in two or more of the following categories:

 Sensory: evidence of hyperalgesia (to pinprick) and/or allodynia (to light touch and/or deep somatic pressure and/or joint movement)

 Vasomotor: evidence of temperature asymmetry and/or skin color changes and/or asymmetry

 Sudomotor/edema: evidence of edema and/or sweating changes and/or sweating asymmetry

 Motor/trophic: evidence of decreased range of motion and/or motor dysfunction (weakness, tremor, dystonia) and/or trophic changes (hair, nail, skin)

(4) There is no other diagnosis that better explains the signs and symptoms