[History, classification and clinic of the complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)]. / Geschichte, Stadieneinteilung und Klinik des komplexen regionalen Schmerzsyndroms (CRPS).

Almost 150 years are gone since the first description of the classic symptoms, what is today summarized under the term CRPS. From a big number of different names, it has been agreed in 1986 to this term and has also defined more exactly the corresponding terms to it. In the pathophysiology of this complex of symptoms is today accepted that it is a combination of inflammatory, vegetative and central-nervous processes in different size and weight as a key position. There are hardly new findings in epidemiology and frequency. In opposite to this a number of results are produced by better methods for examination which let appear the connections in a new view and make new therapy options possible.