Dr Fong categorizes improvements two ways. Patient reports are one. The other is a repeat of the fMRI. If she sees the brain functioning in the fMRI image in accordance with her 'normal' database, she considers it an improvement.

The patient reports are subjective and hard to substantiate. There have been self-reporting concussion symptoms check lists for 2 decades (SCAT I). They do not necessarily reflect the brain under stress or at its worst performance. Self-reporting in a therapy setting can tend to cause a bias toward improvement as the therapist reinforces the value of small improvements during therapy sessions.

I wish she was more forthcoming about these issues. Her claim to her high success rate flies in the face of every other protocol. She did not invent the holy grail of concussion recovery for every patient.

Keep in mind that 85% recover spontaneously in 6 weeks or so. How many of her successes are in that 85% ?

So just got done with a phone interview with Dr. Phong. It all sounds too good to be true, supposedly 85% of her patients have made a full recovery in her words, the other 15% have greatly improved. That is over 400 patients, maybe she has made " the holy grail of concussion recovery" it is $7900 for a week long therapy and can get more expensive if you need more days to get completely better.

She said they will monitor 54 different parts of the brain in real time and each part will have its own list of therapies depending on the dysfunction. I guess it's time to fork over some more money. I will tell everyone about my progress. If it works the world becomes my oyster all over again.

She does have some solid credentials, she is the second opinion doctor for the NFL. I told her I was skeptical, she said everyone is but everyone sees an improvement. So.. I am still processing this, is it possible I go do One week of therapy and I become my normal old self again? Sounds too good to be true....!


www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVI9dZ618Z0

There is no such place in the uk. No such option and no such hope.

If you can get the funds together I doubt it's more than a $1000 to fly out to Utah from UK. She supposedly sees patients from all over the world.

Cog FX is not yet admissible in court. They are trying to promote it for that purpose but according to Frye standards (general acceptance) and the more recent Daubert standards, it is a long way from court evidence levels.

Those expert witnesses would need to argue their qualifications and the evidence of the fMRI before a judge. It is called a Daubert motion.

Cog FX appears to be looking for legal opportunities to argue its validity in court.

Other systems with much broader use and acceptance have tried to get past this level of court acceptance.

Just don't use their comment about offering it to legal cases as any sort of validation.