I really feel sympathy for all the patients who see doctors who know little to nothing about treating RSD. These doctors have never had it, have had little medical training about it, and have not researched methods to treat it. Some of them are kind, caring, and bewildered. Others are hostile, belligerent, and dismissive. Some don't even believe it exists.

In Texas, Dr. Donald Rhodes not only is kind, caring, and knowledgeable about RSD, he has had it himself, so he knows what you are experiencing. He never tells a patient, "It's all in your head." He knows the disease is real, he spent an enormous amount of time back in the 1990's researching the disease, and he found bits and pieces of research that led him to design an FDA approved machine that he has used for 17 years to successfully treat RSD. He used it to put himself into remission. It is non-invasive, does not involve drugs, and is painless.

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I have been treated by Dr. Rhodes. I know many of his patients. They come from all over the state, from all over the U.S., and from foreign countries. They usually learn about him by word of mouth or from finding him on the Internet. His success rate if very high. His goal is to make you pain free. He never speaks of Cures. He speaks of Remissions. That is because most people with RSD do not produce enough of two primary substances that keep the body from overreacting to trauma and stress. Some remissions may last a life time. Some may not. But with the machine, the patient can go back to Dr. Rhodes for an update and then retreat him/herself with his/her personal machine and typically regain remission.

Typically, remission is not instantaneous. The machine causes the body to produce substances that allow the nerves to heal, and that healing takes times. However, some patients see results right away, some in two or three days, some in weeks. It depends on their past history and other factors. Drugs damage the nerves, so the patient has to get off the heavy-duty narcotics to get results. Dr. Rhodes has gotten more patients than I can recall off of morphine pumps. You are way ahead of the game if you haven't had such drastic treatments yet.

Dr. Rhodes recommends that after patients begin the healing process and return home with a machine, they continue to use the machine regularly for six months to get the maximum benefit from it. After that, some patients use it every day indefinitely. Some use it only if they have flare ups. Others stop and may never need to use it again.

If you go to the doctor's website, you will find a tab for patient testimonials. If you click that, you will get a list of videos you can view on YouTube. Do not be surprised at the different ailments you will find listed there. While medical science is beginning to recognize that autoimmune diseases stem from some common underlying malfunction of the body, Dr. Rhodes figured this out long ago. As he treated patients for RSD and got better and better at it, he found other conditions also cleared up. It happened repeatedly, so he could only conclude that his machine was treating some basic disorder in the body that manifested itself in different ways. If it affected the extremities, it was diagnosed as RSD. If it showed up in certain trigger points in the body, it was called Fibromyalgia. If if affected the joints, it was labeled arthritis. Many, many seemingly unrelated conditions are basically diseases of the nerves, and Dr. Rhodes' machine treats the nerves.

If you have the means to travel to South Texas, you may want to check this doctor out. He is certainly worth considering. He is getting results and has been getting results for 17 years. He has a cadre of loyal patients who have been given back their life by him, and they are forever grateful to have found this marvelous doctor. They feel blessed. I hope you, too, can be blessed to be one of his patients.Link