I don't know if he is very far south, But Roland Staud is a name I have seen several times. I came across an interview with him in the Gainsville paper. And another article as well.
I wrote a review of all of the studies that used vibration for fibro pain, and he did one of them (beware of vibration if you are a mast cell patient).
He did a study about
something he called "Temporal summation". To me it sounded a lot like what's called "wind-up pain". (I think I read that someone tried to duplicate it and couldn't)
What I saw him say in the newspaper interview made me think he really gets it about
our pain. It was something along the lines we shouldn't misinterpret such and such (my bad memory,) because maybe it happens to fibro patients because their pain is rarely resolved well enough, and the brain being plastic (moldable/changeable), pain could be causing brain changes, not the other way around. With my bad memory for details, that is about
as clear as mud, but my point is that he really gets the pain picture.
He also has a fibro brain functional imaging study.
One of my facebook friends just posted this maybe 2 days ago, and a new Staud ME/CFS/SEID study is in it. So many people have both fibro and ME/CFS/SEID, not sure if you do. Anyways, Roland Staud is here:
www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/study-shows-why-exercise-magnifies-exhaustion-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-patientsI have seen him give journalists opinions about
new research more than once, for instance about
the fibro blood test from Epigenetics. He must make himself available.
I don't know if you have chronic fatigue? I gave one of the CFS patients at mypatientmatch another florida dr's name, that I had come across. It's not been that terribly long ago, but I can't remember his name at all. And the gal at myPatientmatch changed her screen name, and I can't remember her new name just this second...I can work on it tho if you are interested. My brain might keep going thru the mental rolodex and find it. Ya never know! I think I had seen something about
him in an old CFS thread (or blog?) at either PhoenixRising or ProHealth.
edit:
Here is a U of F page for Staud:
/ufhealth.org/roland-staudAnother edit: if he is too far away, maybe ask his staff if he can suggest someone where you live? Or email him?
Post Edited (Rockon) : 7/7/2016 1:44:45 PM (GMT-6)