par Brihaye, Jean 
;Jurfest, Anita
Référence Acta chirurgica Belgica (Ed. bilingue), 77, 3, page (195-200)
Publication Publié, 1978
;Jurfest, Anita Référence Acta chirurgica Belgica (Ed. bilingue), 77, 3, page (195-200)
Publication Publié, 1978
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | The authors present the clinical course of a 48 year old workman who developed a progressively extending pain after having injured his left second finger with a metal rod at work. This pain increased despite multiple surgical and medical treatments, including repeated amputations of the segments of the finger and the resection of the corresponding neurovegetative chain. When, two years later, the patient was seen by the authors, psychological analysis clearly showed an imbalanced evolution since childhood: the pain is a focus of various physical discomforts. A neuropsychological treatment was started in accordance with the background and the pain subsided within a few weeks. The result was stabilized in many months of treatment. From this clinical case, the authors stress the often dominant influence of the mental state in pain in general, and more specifically, in so called causalgic pain. |
