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Originally Posted by lovefamilypets
Hi Ballerina,
I know he does implant SCS, but he has never offered me one. I think b/c he knows in my file it states that I have already refused them from several other Pain Specialists. He does a lot of medications and believes in the functional restoration model to help people manage their pain.
If I can get some research together, I would like to bring some in to him to see if he would be interested in taking a look at it. I've looked at some articles on PubMed; the frustrating thing is that they only offer abstracts. I don't think that would get his attention. Also, he seemed to stress the double blind research paper approach. Do you know if there have been double blind studies done with tDCS for chronic pain? Also, you mentioned training by Harvard. What do you mean by that?
Thanks for your help! I hope you are hanging in there and doing well.
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Tdcs should be right up your docs alley if he is committed to functional restoration!
Rather than wasting your time trying to educate your doctor how about having another one do it for you. You might put in a call to Jim Fugedy at the Transcranial Brain Stimulation clinic in Atlanta and ask if you could arrange for a long distance consultation between you, Dr. Fugedy and your pain doc. An alternative would be to schedule your own appointment with Dr. Fugedy and make your decision based on a physician who is knowledgeable with the treatment.
Just for fun why not ask your pain management doc why he requires double blinded studies for a non-invasive, low side effect treatment like tDCS but not for implantation of Spinal Cord Stimulators.
Harvard has physician training in tDCS if he is interested in learning so he doesn't continue to make misinformed comments to future patients.
The hardest part of my journey was not fining the correct treatments and avoiding dangerous ones, but learning how and when to leave a doctor behind who was impeding my potential improvement.