Attention all foot RSD sufferers. You MUST see this doc!
 

Hello!!! I hope you are having the best possible day today. I wanted to write for a few months now but had forgotten my password.

Any way... just wanted to let you know that I found the most wonderful chiropractor who is an expert on RSD. He is amazing! Nobody could touch my foot which has the RSD for over six years. Yet when he touched mine, it didn't hurt!! He knows exactly how to handle a foot with RSD. I see him every two weeks or weekly, depending on his schedule and he moves my joints. Restoring motion in my foot bones has been instrumental for my RSD starting to fade!!! He is amazing!!!!!!

His name is Thomas Michaud and has his office in Newton, near Boston in Massachusetts. If I had only found him sooner my RSD would have never gotten bad. Something that also has helped me a great deal in combination with Tom Michaud's foot mobilization is the Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber (there is one in North Reading Massachussetts called Hope Connection).

Good luck to all of you! Keep fighting as there is light at the end of the tunnel!:)

its awesome to see success stories like yours. it gives everyone hope for a better life!
thank you
Lori

Hi Jane, Thank you so much for sharing this information with us. I live in Arizona and have full body RSD and internal. My Dr. just built two clinics each with HBOT in them. Would you please tell me what your HBOT is like. Is it 2.4
and how long? how often? My Dr. is having wonderful success with other patients. So happy you are improving. I've had it 15 years following surgery. 4 year delay in diagnosis. Take care, your friend, loretta

Michaud is one of the great experts on foot biomechanics; wrote a great book on functional foot biomechanics and orthotics that I read 8 or 9 years ago. Heard he is an extremely intelligent and soft spoken man. Didn't know he was an expert on RSD. Good to know!

hello everybody! Thanks for your replies. Dr. Tom Michaud is really a great chiropractor, and RSD expert. I did know he wrote a book about nine years ago but now he’s finishing his second book. I wish I had known he is such an expert on RSD, but most people don’t know. I fully recommend him but I should tell you that if you see him you should remind him to be very careful every time because he can overdo the joint mobilization. He is the only person I can tolerate touching my foot, and he is very kind and knowledgeable. I was recently told that he is no longer accepting new patients. If you really want to see him, I recommend you have a chiropractor refer you to him. That is how I got to see him.

About hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments, I fully recommend that too. I don’t know how many atmospheres they do for me at the place in North Reading Massachusetts where I go to. They measured the depth, or I should say the air pressure, in feet. So they tell me that my treatment is like being at 34 feet under water. 37 does work for me as well. One time I tried 41 feet but that was too much and I had increased pain.

The day I have the hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment, and two days following that, I find that I have a window of opportunity to move much more than I normally can. That is the key to the hyperbaric oxygen treatment, in my opinion. There is increased circulation during the treatment, but it is the moving afterwards that makes a difference. I was going to the chamber every week but I had to stop for a month because I have a really bad ear infection. I hope I can get back to it very soon.



I hope we can all get well very soon. Good luck to everybody!hello everybody! Thanks for your replies. Dr. Tom Michaud is really a great chiropractor, and RSD expert. I did know he wrote a book about nine years ago but now he’s finishing his second book. I wish I had known he is such an expert on RSD, but most people don’t know. I fully recommend him but I should tell you that if you see him you should remind him to be very careful every time because he can overdo the joint mobilization. He is the only person I can tolerate touching my foot, and he is very kind and knowledgeable. I was recently told that he is no longer accepting new patients. If you really want to see him, I recommend you have a chiropractor refer you to him. That is how I got to see him.

About hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments, I fully recommend that too. I don’t know how many atmospheres they do for me at the place in North Reading Massachusetts where I go to. They measured the depth, or I should say the air pressure, in feet. So they tell me that my treatment is like being at 34 feet under water. 37 does work for me as well. One time I tried 41 feet but that was too much and I had increased pain.

The day I have the hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment, and two days following that, I find that I have a window of opportunity to move much more than I normally can. That is the key to the hyperbaric oxygen treatment, in my opinion. There is increased circulation during the treatment, but it is the moving afterwards that makes a difference. I was going to the chamber every week but I had to stop for a month because I have a really bad ear infection. I hope I can get back to it very soon.



I hope we can all get well very soon. Good luck to everybody!