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Well, OMG, well-spotted...and there's more!
all the best :)

http://psychwatch.blogspot.com/2006_12_24_archive.html

Psychiatrist Accused In Drugs-For-Sex Case Sued
12/27/2006 09:11:00 AM

The Baltimore County psychiatrist who was suspended in February amid allegations that he traded pain pills for sex is facing more legal trouble.
As seen in the report from WBAL in Baltimore:
A lawsuit filed in Circuit Court alleges Dr. Nelson Hendler raped a female patient while she was under sedation. The woman is identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe II. She is seeking $50,000 in damages.

Hendler's lawyer said he was unaware of the lawsuit.

Hendler was the founder of the Mensana Clinic in Stevenson. He is scheduled to go on trial in February on seven charges of possessing a controlled dangerous substance with the intent to distribute.

http://wjz.com/local/local_story_046184459.html
Feb 15, 2006 7:09 pm US/Eastern
Baltimore Doctor Accused Of Sexual Abuse
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Mary Bubala Reporting

(WJZ) Baltimore, MD A prominent Baltimore County doctor has been suspended from practicing medicine after a criminal investigation unveiled he allegedly traded drugs for sex.

Nationally known pain specialist Dr. Nelson Hendler was suspended from practice after the Maryland Board of Physicians issued an emergency order. The order accused Hendler of handing out painkillers without prescriptions, failing to maintain his office in a clean and sanitary condition, and sexual misconduct with three patients.

One of the alleged victims has now filed a $5 million malpractice suit against Hendler. The victim's attorney spoke to WJZ's Mary Bubala about the lawsuit. "Between the combination of sexual abuse and the reckless handing out of pain medication this woman suffered, as did her husband," said Marvin Ellin.

Last month Baltimore County police raided the Mensana Clinic on Greenspring Valley Road, where Hendler served as the director of the residential treatment facility. They seized more than 5,000 tablets, including oxycontin and morphine, as well as three guns and computer equipment.

Hendler founded the clinic in 1978 and according to his website, the Mensana Clinic treats patients suffering from chronic pain. The website even takes viewers inside the mansion where the clinic is located to show them the residential treatment rooms.

The center, which is not licensed by the state, is now temporarily closed.

His license was suspended after the Maryland Board of Physicians accused him of sexual improprieties with three patients and handing out painkillers without proper prescriptions

I am not so sure I don't have some nerve entrapment going on.... I am not sure where to go to get the help I need. It is so frustrating. I was diagnosed 2 weeks in. The ER said I had metatarsalgia that developed into rsd. They did a bone scan a month at the most after onset and said it confirmed the diagnosis. Six months later I had another bone scan and they said that what was there before was now healed. I doesn't sound right. Anyone know of good doctor to find a nerve entrapment if it is there?

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Originally Posted by lisashea (Post 89731)

Hi count your blessings,
I had to respond to you question about is it time to accept your diagnosis by sharing my story with you.

In 2001 I was diagnosed with rsd type 2 from an ankle sprain. I immediately started nerve blocks and did everything a good rsd patient should do. Every doctor I went to told me to stop searching for a cure and to accept my diagnosis. This was my reality and I needed to go to a pain couselor to help me learned to cope and deal with the fate that was handed to me.

I DID NOT listen to any of them and continued on my search for MY cure. I tried everything I could - HBOT, accupunture, herbology,cranial sacral, applied kiniseiology, my list goes on and on. I was determined to get help somewhere, somehow.

Finally, in 2004 I had to find yet another doctor because mine was no longer going to see patients. I had no idea who to see since I had seen all the rsd/pain doctors in the area so I asked my chiropractor who he would recommend. He told me he had a personal friend who was like a medical detective and that he trusted her. I waited anothe 4 months to get an appt with her and upon exam she said that she thought I didn't have rsd at all but nerves entrapped in my ankle.

I knew what nerves they were because I had told doctors for 4 yrs that my pain spread on the path of 2 nerves beginning at the tendon I tore and the 2 ligaments but none of them would pursue this theory of mine. She told me I was her 8 patient in her career that was misdiagnosed with RSD and really had nerve entrapment. Her plan was to proove this and get a surgeon to operate.

Before my next appt, I went back to my chiropractor and told him. He said if it was trapped nerves he could do some manipulations to the bones in my foot and maybe it would help.

He did that and within 10 days my pain(which had spread up my entire left side to my face, nose and ear and my other leg) was gone!!! Those 10 days were not pleasant - my leg was twitching and jerking and spasming but I awoke to a no pain.

Since then it took me almost 2 yrs of intense rehab but I am finally back to being totally normal. I lift weights and even run on a treadmill! I began working again full time in december.

So.....
My answer to your question is NEVER STOP SEARCHING FOR A CURE! If I had accepted my diagnosis of RSD and stopped trying where would I be now???

Certainly not where I am.

If I could find the miracle cure then why can't you?

Check out the the mensana clinic and dr nelson handler. He has written a book on rsd being misdiagnosed as nerve entrapment syndromes. He did a study where 71% of the patients diagnosed with RSD really had nerve entrapments.

Peace and hope to you,
Lisa

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Originally Posted by countblessings (Post 89701)

Hello All,

My physiatrist has been trying to convince me that I have RSD for almost a year...as short as I can make it: I had a cervical fusion done in 2000. Was fine, and then took a fall on the ice a few years after that, put out my hand to brace myself. I couldn't turn my head the next day. Over the past 2 years, I have had reoccuring "bouts", in the past several months it has been continuous. My symptoms in a nut shell are burning, stabbing pain over my scapula [the spasms in my trapezius muscle are horrendous!] Inflamation in my joints, shoulder and neck...pain radiates down my hand, my hand is blue [although with manipulation, I can get it "normal"] sometimes red and swollen...always colder than the other....sometimes, my dh will walk by me and try and touch my shoulder area and I jump.
I have had: shoulder arthrograms with MRI, cervical and upper thorasic MRI's as well...all normal. Have done PT [with little relief, seems that a day goes by and the muscles are back to knots] Massage Therapy...have been on a pain contract for Vicodin for over a year as well [am very good about keeping my dosages way down], have done trigger point injections... I go back to the doc's today, and I believe the next step is for nerve blocks-which I will do, because the pain is unbearable...also seems to be [newly] on my left side as well--a kind of mirror...but I feel the pain mostly in my scapular area [those trapezius muscles] when I try to turn my head...although for the past several days I don't even have to move to feel pain. Oh yeah, a few weeks ago I had a "flare up", and the doc put me on steroids, which did seem to help...for the short term.
So--after all my blathering, do you, who know this disorder far better than I, think it is time for me to "suck it up" and deal? Or should I be searching for other answers?

Thank you so much!
As my grandmother always said...Count your blessings!:rolleyes:

Thanks to all and welcome , let's not forget the reason of this post, a new diagnose member suffering with rsd.
Countblessongs,I'm sorry to welcome you for this reason, we all learn by getting education from past posting ,from members ,doing our own research and try to accept was going on with our life's.
In www.rsds.org you will find a lots of information about rsd,treatments and updated researches. I also suggested you to read past postings,that helps me when I first got here. We all can help you with the process to accept and manage the emotional pain, eventually you will learn much more, blessing and welcome again, make sure ,about as much as you can stress, your body flares up with stress and the pain will increases , also relax and rest,get a pain management dr and hope you find a nice one and he gives you the right medical treatment, good luck and see you soon, :grouphug: Jeiska .