Mark,
If I remember, does fMRI stand for 'functional' magnetic resonance imaging?
Yes, I agree it would be great. However, it would only be beneficial if doctors would allow you to have it. I know that with traditional MRI, doctors would not let me have one and would become very hostile if I pressed them for one. I only managed to get a regular MRI when a sympathetic chiroparactor scheduled me for one- while it didn't show adhesions it did find an adrenal tumor that a CT scan didn't show or characterize nearly as well.
I can still remember the silence and embarrassed look on doctors' faces at Mayo when they asked me 'How did I discover that I had an adrenal tumor/pheochromocytoma? I'd then tell them that I'd wanted an MRI for a long time due to chronic pain and stuff and that it was finally a chiropractor who allowed me have one. They just hated the fact that a doctor other than a regular allopathic one- i.e., one of their own kind- was responsible for this tumor having been found and properly identified!
I have heard that it is because insurance companies frown on them due to
their cost- and maybe doctors get some kind of bad marks against them if
they schedule one or too many of them. So, if this fMRI becomes widely
available, the question will be how does one manage to take advantage of
it.
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