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About Road Back Foundation’s Doctor Search System
It is not easy to find a practitioner willing to treat rheumatic disease with antibiotics, so you may want to explore options such using the information on the website for the Road Back Foundation (www.roadback.org) and discussing this treatment option with your general practitioner as described in Frequently Asked Question #s 1 – 19 and the information at this link: Physician Packet: Pulsed Antibiotic Protocol and Rationale.
Additionally, while not necessarily trained in antibiotic protocol for rheumatic illnesses, we find that many practitioners trained to treat Lyme disease, and its common coinfections are well versed in treating chronic infections that may be triggering rheumatic illness symptoms. You may want to consider searching the Provider Search application on the website for the International Lyme and Associated Diseases (ILADS) website.
You can now submit an online request for Antibiotic Protocols (AP) practitioners in the United States, or Internationally, and receive an immediate automated email response.
The Road Back Foundation (RBF) practitioners lists are maintained by volunteers as a free courtesy service to rheumatic patients choosing antibiotic therapy for treatment. These lists are compiled entirely on the basis of patient recommendations and feedback. You can help us to keep the RBF practitioner lists current by providing feedback on things like doctor contact info corrections, new practitioners we may add, and/or feedback on a doctor you have visited. Please send any feedback or information on a practitioner that we may add to these lists to admin@roadback.org.
If there are no doctors near you and you are unable to travel, you can print out the Doctor Packets (Pulsed and Daily Protocols) and other Resources provided on the RBF website and take them to a local doctor of your choosing to ask for assistance. In addition to a Rheumatologist, some rheumatic patients have found that a local General Practitioner/Primary Care Physician, Integrative/Functional/Holistic/Alternative or Naturopathic Medicine Doctor will help.
Please read these important instructions before accessing RBF’s Doctor Search System:
- After clicking on one of the doctor list options below, an informational form will appear. Please read and click the “I AGREE” box before clicking the Submit button at the foot of that page to be directed to the automated doctor list system.
- To prevent your doctor list emails going to spam, add roadback.org to your safe-sender email address list.
- At the top of each of your 3 doctor list selection forms, you will be required to complete basic information fields, including your personal email address. Please note: business email firewalls may block automated email systems.
- Only one doctor list can be selected on each of the 3 consecutive forms, so be sure to click “Submit” at the foot of each doctor list selection in order for the next list to appear.
- Please be sure to make your doctor list selections carefully. Once your 3 separate doctor lists have been sent to your email, you will need to wait one month in order to make 3 additional doctor list requests on this automated system.
- If you have experienced difficulty in using the automated doctor search system, you will need to register for the Facebook Group or contact us at admin@roadback.org to ask a volunteer for further assistance. The lists are only as current as the feedback received by volunteers in these community discussion areas, so please let a volunteer know of any clinic contact info updates/corrections, new Doctor recommendations, or general feedback on Doctors you have visited.
For U.S. Doctor Lists: you may select 3 states or 2 states and the “most experienced” doctor list.
For Doctor Lists in Other Countries: you may select up to 3 different countries based on travel preferences. Australians may select up to 3 states or 2 states and the “most experienced” doctor list.