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Treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy with topical capsaicin. Case report
William P Cheshire1, Clyde R Snyder
1Department of Neurology, 751 Clinical Sciences Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7025 U.S.A.
Pain
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
A 31-year-old woman with intractable reflex sympathetic dystrophy experienced nearly complete, though temporary, resolution of pain following 3 weeks of topical capsaicin. We propose that capsaicin may be a useful treatment for reflex sympathetic dystrophy, either by depleting substance P from primary afferent neurons that mediate allodynia, or by modulating sympathetic efferent activity.