Debbie -

Please see my post #10 to you early Saturday morning on the thread Question about steroids . . . http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread114304.html including the links in the post.

The Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC) at Children's Hospital Boston in Waltham appears by all accounts to be the only program of it's kind, specifically dedicated to pediatric and adolescent patients with CRPS. Here's its homepage http://www.childrenshospital.org/cli...geS2585P0.html One tab away is the "About the Program" at http://www.childrenshospital.org/cli...geS2585P4.html

And as noted earlier, although several members of the staff of Children's Hospital Boston trained in pediatrics at the Mayo Clinic, and vice versa, The Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC) is purely a clinical service of Children's Hospital Boston (CHB), the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, at which most of its physicians hold faculty appointments. See, http://www.childrenshospital.org/abo...geS1394P0.html and http://www.childrenshospital.org/car...geS2115P0.html for a nice overview of Children's Hospital Boston.

"In 2006, through the generosity of Sara Page Mayo and Richard Mayo, Dr. Charles Berde was awarded an endowed chair in Pediatric Pain Medicine. The Mayo Family followed this with a second donation of start-up funding to establish the PPRC as an innovative approach for rehabilitative treatment of RSD/CRPS using a partial-hospital model." http://www.childrenshospital.org/cli...sublevel5.html

And as to Sara Page Mayo and Richard Mayo, please see the following from a March 13, 2006 press release of the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA:

Richard Mayo, whose wife Sara Page is a 1964 Mary Washington graduate, is founding partner of one of the nation’s largest investment management funds, GMO (Grantham, Mayo Van Otterloo & Co.), with holdings totaling more than $102 billion.

http://www.umw.edu/universityrelatio..._investors.php

That's the "Mayo Family" referred to in "The Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC)," as opposed to the Mayo Clinic, the Brothers Mayo, etc. In fact, the last "Mayo" to serve as a consultant with the Mayo Clinic was Charles (Chuck) William Mayo, M.D. (1896 - 1968), son of one of the two "Mayo Brothers," Charles (Charlie) Horace Mayo, M.D. (1865 - 1939). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...00256-0060.pdf

Mike