Re: Deadly twist at the chiropractor's office: Chiropractor's move can trigger strokes in healthy patients

" Never, and I mean never, have I seen a Chiropractic adjustment cause a stroke. Never."

From doc10's posting on this forum (quoting chiropractor Alan Bragman):

"Current studies estimate that one out of every two practitioners may have a patient suffer a serious cerebrovascular injury in his or her professional lifetime. Recent high-publicity deaths of young adults in Canada from cervical manipulation prompted a population-based case-control study. The results from this study have prompted some medical experts to conclude that the risk of a vertebrobasilar injury from cervical manipulation may be as high as 1.3 incidents per 100,000 cervical manipulations. In March 2001, The New England Journal of Medicine estimated that the incidence of vertebral or carotid artery dissections may even be as high as one incident per 20,000 cervical manipulations. As more information is obtained, the risk factors have steadily increased."

Bear in mind that most strokes resulting from chiropractic neck manipulation are not reported to medical journals, and don't get included in statistics.