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.
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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?

1 comment:

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

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