EMG biofeedback??

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I'm getting info from my ex-wife who wants $600 to have my son tested with EMG biofeedback... the doctor in question has mixed reviews, ranging from "leader in his field" to accused of serious fraud in at least one serious legal case.

Normally this kind of testing costs nothing in Canada, but this guy is running a specialized private practice - doing his own thing.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure what his test would do for him and I get a "fishy" feeling from it. It sounds like just a money-pit which will do little or nothing to help my mini-me clone of a son improve his lot in life. Special social training, etc. I could understand... this just sounds like shenanigans from a self-absorbed manipulating doctor in it for the money.

http://www.myosymmetries.com/ <<< this is the doctor's site... tell me what you think.

Anyone have any experience for OR against? Opinions welcome, experiences very much appreciated!

Last edited by BlueMax on 10 Dec 2012, 5:18 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Scam.

Good luck trying to fight it. If your ex has physical custody and you've been ordered to pay half of your kid's medical expenses, then you are now out $300.

Although I've seen some posts from people who felt it helped them, the last forum member here to try it said it proved to be a scam, and a friend of mine who tried it with her son said it did absolutely nothing. So, I'm leaning less in the "can't hurt" category than I used to, and further into the "scam" category.

Face it, there are a lot of people out there willing to pray on hope and take your money. If you've got money to burn, it's fine, maybe it "could" work (or least trigger a placebo effect), but few people have that luxury.

One of our members posted this resource of Autism interventions and how well they stand up to research: http://www.researchautism.net/autism_tr ... tions.ikml Unfortunately, Neurofeedback (for some reason they use a different word as applied to autism) is there, but not rated - but they do list it and if you click through the links you can see the studies.

No, I've not been ordered as such. She's broke and wants me to pay for this mysterious brain-scanning. To what purpose is unknown - other than to give him a nice label explaining his unruly behaviour and freeing herself of being responsible for it.

Appreciate the feedback, folks... it seems my initial hesitation is justified and my answer is NO to this treatment and/or the money for it.

Edit: confirmed. The more reports and reviews I read, the worse it looks. It's a long-term expensive procedure preying on desperate parents to "cure" their "abnormal" kids. Most see NO improvement. Forget it... I'm not going to pay big bucks and subject my kid to the mild trauma of it.

Mystical lifestyle stuff without medicinal proof is everyones private stuff, but has nothing to do with medical expenses.

If it was that easy, then thousends of lousy parents could force their divorced partners to pay them the holidays because "Our kid .... must be brought to Lama Wise-Sensei to Tibet/Voodoo Priestess Mama Spirit in Tahiti, because the Lama/Voodoo Priest sensed via internet that our kids souls just must be cleansed of his corrpupted spirtits and then he would get healthy again."

No medicinal proof, no medical expense. Just a costing hobby.

lol... and to cap it all off, I found the same doctor is also in a big legal battle over fraud. Coincidence?

If the judge says, "Thou Shalt Pay" then thou shalt pay, regardless of what you or the medical profession thinks of the "treatment".

You've never been divorced with kids, have you?

I have.

I did not thought that esoteric private hobbies would have anything to do with divorcing. When i need medical treatment myself, my health insurance never asked if i am divorced or married or hetero or homo. Until now they only have been interested in medical proof of the treatment i need. Are there medicinal proofs. Then its a medical treatment and my health insurance payed, without asking if i am divorced or married. Else it would seem like nonsense to me, or why should a medication be influenced if i am married or divorced? The medication doesnt know it.

Is there no medical proof: Then it has nothing to do with medical treatment, according to that my health insurance doesnt pay, because its my health insurance and not my private esoteric fun hobby insurance.

If your wife decides to give an anonymous nigerian prince 3000 Dollar, because of his nice Emails, in which he promise to pay the money back, would you also have to pay that? If not, why should you be jugded to pay money to another deceiver?