CRPS/RSD RESEARCH
Mc Gill University, Montreal, Quebec.
UPDATE SEPT./OCT.
2011
PARC was able to donate a further $5,000 to Mc Gill
University to assist the NIRS studies at Montreal General Hospital.
The NIRS machine (laser) will be travelling to San Diego, CA this
winter to a busy pain clinic of CRPS patients at UCSD where space
and research personnel have been donated. Many thanks to the dedicated
Dr. Bennett who will travel and resume the study in California.
PARC's contribution will help make this happen. Please read about
the NIRS study below.
UPDATE APRIL 2010
Dr. Terrence Corderre (left) and Dr Gary Bennett (right), of Mc
Gill University shown with the near -infrared spectrophotometer
(NIRES) that was purchased with the help of PARC, Great West Life
Assurance Company, and the family of Mr. Jeffrey Owens. The NIRES
machine has the unique ability to measure blood flow and oxygenation
in muscles non-invasively and painlessly via a laser light source
and light sensor placed on the skin over the muscle. Drs. Bennett
and Corderre are using the NIRES machine to test their theory that
at least CRPS patients have pain due to an injury to the capillary
blood vessels in a muscle.
PARC NOTE: With your help, PARC can continue to support the research
of these excellent scientists at Mc Gill. Please give
generously.
RESEARCH PAPERS BY DRS. BENNETT AND/OR CODERRE
"Objectifying CRPS": Coderre
and Bennett
"Chronic Post-Ischemic Pain":
Coderre et al.pdf
This is only a partial list of research papers.
INTRODUCTION: DR. GARY BENNETT PhD
Gary J. Bennett, Ph.D., is Canada Senior Research Chair, Department
of Anesthesia and Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University in Montreal,
Canada. He earned his bachelor’s degree (Psychology) in 1970
from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology)
from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University
in 1978. In the same year, he joined the Neurobiology and Anesthesiology
Branch (NAB), National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes
of Health, as a Public Health Service Postdoctoral Fellow. He was
appointed to the permanent staff of NAB in 1979, and was made Chief
of the Neuropathic Pain and Pain Measurement Section in 1991. In
1996, he became Professor in the Department of Neurology at MCP
Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. He joined McGill University
in 2001.
He has served on the American Pain Society’s Board of Directors
and on the Editorial Board for Pain (1986-1999), the journal of
the International Association for the Study of Pain, and currently
serves on the Editorial Board for Pain Medicine, the journal of
the American Academy of Pain Medicine. He has served on the Board
of Directors of the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association
of America, where he was Director of Research, and received their
Scientific Achievement Award in 2000. He was awarded the American
Pain Society’s Frederick W.L. Kerr Basic Science Research
Award in 1996, and the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s
Founder’s Award in 2001. For the past 25 years, his research
has focused on the mechanisms underlying normal and abnormal pain
sensations, and the pharmacological basis of pain control.
UPDATE: APRIL 2010:
PARC was able to donate $10,000 towards CRPS research at Mc Gill.
Please see the photo at the top of this page for details.
UPDATE: December 2008
Due to the RIDE TO CONQUER CRPS 2008 and the fine efforts of
Dr D.L. Shulman, PARC was able to donate $5,000 towards CRPS research.
We urge all of you who are interested in finding a cure for CRPS,
to support the research being done at McGill.
RESEARCH UPDATE: Aug. 22, 2008:
Dr G. Bennett,PhD, Sr. Research Chair, McGill University, and
Montreal General Hospital will be holding a conference in conjunction
with:
RIDE TO CONQUER CRPS 2008 on July 28.
JULY 28
details.
UPDATE: FEB 2007: Astra Zeneca has donated $2.5
million to a new lab at McGill University. Dr Magali Millecamps
is the post doctoral fellow studying CRPS under the supervision
of Dr Gary Bennett and Terry Cordere. Our hats are off to these
dedicated researchers.
For more on McGill University please visit: McGill
Pain Research
RESEARCH PROJECTS AT MCGILL
CLINICAL INVESTGATION
FOR CRPS 2011
MUHC-Montreal General
Hospital Pain Center
INCLUSION CRITERIA:
- Sylvia Toupin or Laura Pallett
- TEL: 514 934 1934 ext 44348 or ext 42115
Complex Regional Pain
Syndrome Type I (RSD):
New data from the
clinic and the laboratory.
A Pain Forum presentation of the MUHC Pain
Center
DATE: Monday, 28 July 2008
TIME: 1:00-4:30 PM
PLACE: Livingston Hall Lounge (Room L6-500)
Montreal General Hospital
SCHEDULE:
1:00-1:05 Welcoming remarks (Gary J. Bennett, PhD;
McGill University)
1:05-1:45 CRPS-I: The clinical picture. (David L. Shulman,
MD CCFP FCFP DAAPM; Rothbart Pain Clinic, Toronto) RIDE
TO CONQUER CRPS 2008 STOP
1:45 -2:45 A new theory: Deep tissue microvascular pathology
as the cause of CRPS-I. (Terence J. Coderre, PhD; McGill
University)
2:45-3:00 Health break
3:00-3:30 The role of the endothelins in CPIP pathology
(Magali. Millecamps, PhD, McGill University)
3:30-4:00 CRPS-I breakthroughs: New data from Boston and
Haifa (G. Bennett, PhD)
4:00-4:30 Discussion
4:30 Adjourn
Many thanks to Gary Bennett PhD and colleagues for hosting the
successful and very informative CRPS conference on July 28 at Montreal
General Hospital.
Why is CRPS research important?!
BULLETIN: New research has found
markers for CRPS. From Boston, a skin biopsy can now detect distal
nerve damage. From Haifa Israel, a saliva test can measure high
levels of LDH (lactate dehyrogenase), the same substance found in
heart attack victims. It also found high levels of albumin.
DUTCH RESEARCH: In a database
of 800,000 patients from 150 GPs in Holland, (specifically patients
who attend a doctor), the rate of occurrence has been established
as 26.2 in 100,000 patients.This is approximately 1 in every 4,000
people.
For further information, contact:
Gary J. Bennett, PhD
Anesthesia Research Unit
McGill University (McIntyre 1202)
3655 Promenade Sir William Osler
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6
CANADA
Tel.: (514) 398-3432
FAX: (514) 398-8241
E-mail: gary.bennett@mcgill.ca
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UPDATE 2011: For updated research projects at
McGill University please follow this link:
McGill Pain Research
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING...........
WHY SHOULD I PARTICIPATE?
McGill University is known around the world for its pain research.
First of all, the research being conducted will help the researchers
better understand the "puzzle of CRPS/RSD", what causes
it, and how it works in the body.
Secondly, the scientific knowledge gained from these studies
will lead to the development of better treatments for this painful,
neurological syndrome. New treatments are desperately needed.
MORE IMPORTANTLY,CRPS patients living in Canada will benefit
from new treatments first.
Thirdly, the researcher in question, Dr Bennett, has a great
deal of experience studying and testing patients since he has already
conducted quality CRPS/RSD research for over 25 years in United
States.
Lastly, doing something NOW that will benefit you later, should
be considered as a very good reason to help this excellent researcher
gather his data.
PARC urges all Canadians to participate and we plan to offer ourselves
as subjects. What about you?
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