Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Comparing chiropractic neck adjustment to hanging

This is over the top but I need even more readers.
From Science-Based Medicine by Mark Crislip comes this quote.
I once calculated that the force of a neck crack is about 40% that of hanging by the neck and it has the same pathologic changes if it goes wrong. Every time I see a death in the movie where the neck is twisted to break it, I think chiropractic, although some tolerate it better than others.
Full post here:
Whack em hard/Whack em once and Stroke

This  is the paper that supposedly supports chiropractic.
Risk of Vertebrobasilar Stroke and Chiropractic Care
Results of a Population-Based Case-Control and Case-Crossover Study
Spine. 2008 Feb 15;33(4 Suppl):S176-83.
by Cassidy JD, Boyle E, Côté P, He Y, Hogg-Johnson S, Silver FL, Bondy SJ.
(5)
Dissected(pun intended) quite ably here;
Chiropractic and Stroke: Evaluation of One Paper

I will never have this done. Would you trust your chiropractor to not go over 40%?  Does your chiropractor even know about this limit?
Posted by at
Labels: ,

1 comment:

  1. JenniferSaake.blogspot.comOctober 28, 2013 at 5:56 PM

    "should" and sometimes reality don't always match. :(
    - chiropractic stroke survivor http://strokeofgrace.blogspot.com/2013/10/2-years-rest-of-story.html

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)