Of all of the people in Rochester, I found the best group for RSD in the Mayo Clinic to be in the Department of Physical Medicine. Their website (which is down at the minute) is http://www.mayoclinic.org/physicalme...t/doctors.html. The guy I saw, Keith A. Bengtson, M.D., runs a hand clinic there, but seemed to know as much about RSD as anyone I met at the Mayo Clinic (including an uber-specialist/peripheral neurologist, but I won't go into that). If you can be seen by the Department of Physical Medicine, perhaps on the referral of your current treating physician, I would go for it.

I have somewhat less confidence in the the Mayo Clinic's pain mangt. program, where it has a long history of teaching patients with chronic pain how to basically grin and bear it. They're real hawks on the use of long term opioiods and should in my opinion be avoided, certainly as a point of entry into system. If you get referred to them for an in-patient ketamine infusion, that's fine, but it's not where you want to have you intial consult.

Mike

P.S. With reference to my subsequent post, Dr. Bengtson is not the Mayo Clinic doctor who screwed me up the first time I was seen for RSD. I saw Dr. Bengtson on a subsequent and much happier visit. Nevertheless, the cautions set forth below would probably apply to whoever you are seeing there. I just happen to like Dr. Bengtson as a person.