Chiropractor + Stroke = The Stroke May Have Been The Chiropractors Fault
If you have had a stroke at anytime after seeing a chiropractor, you should research and consider whether the stroke was the fault of the chiropractor’s treatment. Did your chiropractor warn you that the neck manipulation you were undergoing could cause a stroke?
For more information on the rights of person’s injured by chiropractors, including persons who suffered a stroke at anytime in the near future after seeing a chiropractor, email attorney, Brent T. Ackerson.
From a former chiropractor:
"I have been doing a vascular surgery rotation for the past month, which is part of my postgraduate medical education. During my chiropractic training, when the subject of manipulation-induced stroke was brought up, we were reassured that "millions of chiropractic adjustments are made each year and only a few incidents of stroke have been reported following neck manipulation." I recently found that two of the patients on my vascular service that suffered a cerebrovascular accident (stroke) had undergone neck manipulation by a chiropractor, one the day that symptoms had begun and the other four days afterward. If indeed the incidence of stroke is rare, one M.D. would see a case of manipulation-induced CVA about every 10 years. But I believe I have seen two in the past month! I therefore urge my medical colleagues to question their patients regarding recent visits to a chiropractor/neck manipulation when confronted with patients that present with the neurologic symptoms of stroke. I also urge potential chiropractic patients to not allow their necks to be manipulated in any way. The risk-to-benefit ratio is much too high to warrant such a procedure."
—Rob Alexander, M.D.
Cited from: a reader’s comment to: Chiropractic's Dirty Secret: Neck Manipulation and Strokes by: Stephen Barrett, M.D.
