This is so simple to prevent something like this. Never get your neck adjusted.
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/event/article/id/77150/group/homepage/
A local chiropractor has denied accusations from a local woman who claims a neck adjustment caused her to suffer a stroke.
In
a two-page answer filed Monday, Gary Hendrix, a chiropractor with an
office located at 310 N. Lawler St. in Mitchell, denies that a neck
adjustment he performed on Christie Gunkel caused her to have a stroke.
Gunkel,
who recently became treasurer of Davison County, filed a lawsuit in
January claiming a neck adjustment she received from Hendrix on Aug. 8
caused a “dissection,” or tear, in an artery in her neck, resulting in a
stroke. Hendrix admits to treating Gunkel, and admits she “had problems
following treatment,” but denies he did anything to cause the stroke,
court documents say.
Gunkel also claims Hendrix breached the
standard of care and failed to inform Gunkel of all the risks involved
in a neck adjustment, a claim that Hendrix denies in his response.
Gunkel is represented by Renee H. Christensen, of Sioux Falls. Hendrix is represented by J. Crisman Palmer, of Rapid City.
In
an interview with The Daily Republic in January, Gunkel said she went
to Hendrix’s office Aug. 8 because of soreness in her neck, and Hendrix
treated her with a neck adjustment.
Later that day, Gunkel went to
the emergency room at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital in Mitchell, where
she suffered a stroke, she said. From there, Gunkel was taken by
ambulance to Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, where she spent
four days undergoing CT scans and MRIs, as well as physical and
occupational therapy.
Gunkel claims she suffered permanent injury,
experienced and will continue to experience “great pain, discomfort,
mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life,” and has “been unable to
perform several normal functions of life,” her complaint says.
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