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Top left: Laura Simons, PhD, David Leslie, MD, and Penny Sullivan, PT, PCS
Bottom left: Katie Olson, PT, MSPT, Charles Berde, MD, PhD, and Judy Gaughan, RN |
This summer, Children's Hospital Boston will open the Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC) at Children's Hospital Boston in Waltham. The PPRC will primarily treat children with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), a nerve-based pain disorder
associated with hypersensitivity to touch along with circulatory changes, including coldness, skin discoloration and swelling of the affected limb(s).
Patients will spend eight hours a day in intensive rehabilitation provided by a team of physicians, psychologists and physical and occupational therapists.
This will make the PPRC the most
comprehensive, stand-alone day hospital program of its kind in the United States, offering intensive, multidisciplinary rehabilitation to children and adolescents ages 7 to 18 who have not responded to traditional outpatient treatment for CRPS/RSD. The PPRC is jointly sponsored by the Division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine; the Division of Rheumatology; the Division of Psychology; and the Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy. // cont
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