Facebook Live w/ Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD | Updates on CRPS From Basic Science to Clinical Practice

Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD is a board-certified Anesthesiologist and Pain Medicine physician who specializes in the treatment of complex chronic pain disorders including chronic post-operative pain, complex regional pain syndrome and peripheral nerve injury.
After completing her undergraduate degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, she obtained her MD and PhD in Neuroscience, with a focus on basic pain mechanisms, at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH, USA. She then moved to California to join the Stanford Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine as an anesthesiology resident in the Fellowship in Anesthesia Research and Medicine (FARM) program, of which she now serves as the Director. After completion of her subspecialty fellowship training in Pain Medicine, Dr. Tawfik joined the faculty at Stanford and continues to research the immune contribution to persistent pain using clinically-informed basic science while also caring for patients suffering from chronic pain. Her lab uses a variety of approaches, from single cell sequencing to complex behavioral paradigms in mouse pain models, to investigate the contribution of spinal cord glial cells (microglia & astrocytes) to the transition from acute to chronic pain.
View Dr. Tawfik’s slides here: bit.ly/3lOyea6
To learn more about complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), visit Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDSA)’s website at rsds.org.
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[@andrea4246]

RSD 32 years. Thanks you for your help through the years.

[@karindella]

Excellent presentation

[@rudykent]

Thank you so much

[@DB26423]

It changed my life 5 years ago. I am now a shadow of my former self and as the shadow i feel invisible in society. This disease is still so grossly misunderstood or not even recognised by a number of medical professionals I have come into contact with over the years. Here in Australia it is not recognised as well as it should be. Describing this disease as a pain problem I.e CR(P)S makes this disease less relevant and urgent in this country when attempting to secure specialised medical supports. If it was recognised for the physical disabilities and bone, nerve, and muscle changes and damage it results in etc, it would be looked at differently.

[@RSDSA]

Are you looking for a new physician?

[@DB26423]

@@RSDSA whatever information you can give me I will take

[@michelledcarter]

@@DB26423 Have you received any help? In America, however have had this for many, many years and feel your pain. Have alot of knowledge.

[@susannahcollingwood7395]

I’ve had it for eight years, and in England it doesn’t see to be recognised AT ALL!

[@judyrollings8930]

My daughter developed CRPS after a neck fusion. She's seeing a pain doc who put her on Belbuca and is recommending a spinal cord stimulator. She's very nervous about this. She gets the pain right side, also chest, abdomen, back and extreme daytime fatigue. This disease has ruined her life. Some of the modalities mentioned here have not been tried. Thank you for your expertise in this area. You were recommended by an anesthesiologist friend.

[@dorenehendricks6627]

If it's to late there is no cure its horrible to have 18 years