I am 26 years old and have suffered many, many concussions through my lifetime. After my last two concussions (occurring within the last year 1/2) I've been experiencing increasing difficulty with brain fog, fatigue, flat emotions, and so on, which has prevented me to engage in the normally active lifestyle i love to lead. After finally realizing that I need help, I reached out to Dr Dane at Carolina Brain Center. After a very brief phone consultation, Dr. Dane assured me that she would be able to help and that attending her week-long Brain camp would address my issues. I flew out from Utah to attend this. I regret not seeking help elsewhere, as it was a waste of time and money.
Dr. Dane never cared to ask me for details about my extensive concussion history, but still concluded that Brain Camp would help after a few rounds of testing in the first hour of meeting me. She only cared about improving my initial test results (as she says, "data is data) but didn't address the every day, real problems I am experiencing. At one point she told me that this is all just my "new baseline" (what is the point of being here if nothing will change...?) and when I experienced painful headaches during the week, she told me to just take ibuprofen.
In the end, Dr. Dane surmised that my brain fog and fatigue were a result of long COVID; it is important to note that this wasn't talked about before I flew out from Utah, and I was actively looking to find a brain specialist to help with my post concussive symptoms. Dr. Dane intentionally led me to believe that she could help with these concussive symptoms, and when she couldn't, blamed it on COVID. It is also important to note that Dr. Dane talked very inappropriately of COVID, stating multiple times that she was "licking doorknobs during the whole pandemic" and never got sick, and called mask-wearing "r*tarded". It's hard to believe someone telling me I have long COVID if they clearly didn't take the pandemic seriously.
I worked with Dr. Dane's assistant often as well- on day two, I had asked him if he had experienced many concussions. He then asked me "What about you? Have you had many concussions?" They're 3 people that work in the Carolina Brain Center. It baffled me that one of them didn't even know why I was there for a week long of Brain Camp.
I could go on. Overall, I received inattentive, un-personalized treatment, which really was just going through the same tasks every day as Dr. Dane and her assistant sat on their cell phones. When doing hands-on work with me, Dr. Dane often used one hand to hold my head/neck and the other to pet her dogs. After day one of that, I experienced the worst lower back pain perhaps of my life, for weeks. I was extremely uncomfortable and wary of any other hands-on work she did with me following that, which is unfortunate given she is supposed to be a chiropractor. read more