• Provide a forum for members to engage in free and frank communication on the diagnosis and management of complex regional pain syndrome with its variable clinical presentations.
• Bring attention to new developments in the fields of basic and clinical research on CRPS.
• Promote person-centered interdisciplinary research and care by integrating knowledge and expertise from basic science, medicine, psychology and rehabilitation science disciplines as well as lived experience (patient) reports about pain in CRPS.

During this webinar, we showcased the research of early career researchers in the field of CRPS. In this recording, the findings of four recent studies involving patients with CRPS were featured:

A community-driven project to establish the information needs of people living with CRPS.
Phenomenological interviews with consumers across Australia identified a clear need for patient information at the time of diagnosis, informing the development of an infographic co-designed with consumers, industry partners, and a CRPS pain specialist.

A longitudinal study to assess early prognostic factors in CRPS.
Preliminary results from a large ongoing prospective cohort study of patients with early CRPS was shared, specifically focused on the identification of biopsychosocial prognostic factors (i.e., which patients recover, and why?) and potential subtypes.

Understanding variability in body perception disturbances and how this can inform personalized virtual reality rehabilitation.
This presentation explored how patients with CRPS can be grouped according to the severity and nature of body perception disturbances, patients’ desires for changes to their affected limb, and how changes in body perception can inform novel rehabilitation approaches.

Visuospatial attentional bias in CRPS.
Using temporal visual order tasks, visuospatial attentional bias was explored in patients with CRPS to establish whether it is specific to the personal space of the affected limb, or generalizes to the personal space of other parts of the affected side of the body.

Participants included:
-- Colleen Johnston-Devin, PhD, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Sciences, Central Queensland University, Australia
-- Marc-Henri Louis, MD, Institute of NeuroScience, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
-- Caitlin Naylor, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, United Kingdom
-- Monika Halicka, PhD, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

-- Michael Ferraro, Centre for Pain IMPACT, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia (moderator)
-- Janet Bultitude, PhD, Department of Psychology, Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath, United Kingdom (moderator)