If the thought of finding a trained doctor who is comfortable with tDCS is daunting in itself, I would suggest checking out the geographically based index of physicians listed as "diplomats" of the American Board of Pain Medicine, the most selective of such groups in the country. (It requires that every physician seeking its certification both complete a one-year clinical fellowship, over and above a basic residency, and thereafter pass an 8-hour written exam.)

Once you are there, you can search by "specialty of origin," i.e., the field in which the physician took her/his residency. Without a shadow of a doubt, I would then go for "psychiatry."

Then, armed with a bevy of articles I would be only too happy to share, you might well stand a fighting chance of getting the professional assistance you need.


PPS Forgot an extremely important point: you want to see a pain specialist, trained in psychiatry, who offers "medical treatments" for CRPS: something the person making the appointment in the doctor's office should know off the bat.

I make the point because the entire school of cognitive-behavioral pain management, aka exposure therapy, aka stress inoculation training, aka cognitive processing therapy, aka dialectical behavior therapy, aka acceptance and commitment therapy ("there is no cure so just learn how to function without the assistance of opioids of any kind") comes out of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Washington's School of Medicine. Ditto, for all intents and purposes, the Mayo Clinic. On account of which they are the last people who are willing to acknowledge that there are effective treatments for chronic pain conditions. After all, they've built what is essentially an industry around the proposition that resistance is futile. (That said, I fully concur in the proposition that bringing resistance - either physical or emotional - to the experience of pain in the moment of its arising only leads to suffering.)