Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a wide spectrum of painful conditions which usually occur after an initiating event and diagnosed clinically (1). S.W Mitchell was the first physician who reported the first CRPS patient in 1864 under the term of “causalgia” (2). In 1995, Stanton et a l called the disorders, including reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and causalgia, CRPS after a common decision from a conference in Orlando (3). This syndrome has been diagnosed more frequently in women between 40 to 60 years of age after injuries (2). This is a neurological disorder and, in most of the cases, will end up causing debilitant pain (4). Changes will happen in the sympathetic, motor nervous system and somatosensory system, causing severe pain and disability (5). Signs and symptoms are often in the dista l part of the extremities (5). Based on expert panel U.K. guidelines for CRPS, the Budapest Criteria is used for the diagnosis of CRPS (6).
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