Without Dr. Rhodes, these people would be dead today.

Most of the people who have come through Dr. Rhodes' doors have incredible stories. Many of them have been through the worst type of agony, all kinds of failed therapies, and have deteriorated, not improved before they find Dr. Rhodes. Let me tell you about one such person.

I met Colleen, a women in her thirties, a couple of years ago. She was on her way out of Dr. Rhodes' office as I was coming in to gather patient stories. Although she was headed to the airport to catch a plane back to Louisiana, she stopped to talk to me when I told her I was writing a book on Dr. Rhodes. She was furious. NOT at Dr. Rhodes, rather at the way she had been treated by pain doctors before she got to Dr. Rhodes.

An injury that led to chronic pain resulted in her undergoing a long list of standard and off-the-wall therapies that had almost killed her. She had endured operations, injections, a wide variety of physical therapies, hot water/cold water treatments, a pic line from her arm to her heart, drugs of every kind. In a nutshell, her life had become a nightmare. She said for the last year of her life, she had lain on the couch 24 hours a day, unable to walk, to feed herself, to think clearly, to do anything. She reached the point where she could no longer talk, couldn't even swallow, and was dying. Her pastor had gathered her family to arrange her funeral. Everyone in her church was praying for her. Then, at almost the last moment, through the grapevine, they learned of a woman in their vicinity who had been in bad shape with chronic pain, had gone to Dr. Rhodes, and was doing fine. Colleen's family decided they had to make one last try to save her. And here she was, three weeks later, up and walking out of Dr. Rhodes' office and telling her story.

I think the problem with treating chronic pain is that most doctors don't know how to alleviate it because there are really no good therapies for the intense type of pain that Dr. Rhodes treats, except for his method. He researched, uncovered information that others have not found, and designed a machine and a use for that machine that are unique. He is a brilliant individual, an all around nice guy, and a man who really cares about his patients. He continues to improve his methods to make recoveries faster and better.

I recently asked two of Dr. Rhodes' patients where they thought they would be today if they had not gone to him. One said, "I would be dead. I couldn't endure that kind of pain. I would have raised my children first, and then I would have killed myself."

The other patient said, "I would be dead. The drugs would have killed me."