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Tuesday, June 05, 20072

Chiropractors and carotid dissection

Paul Levy is wary about this association:
A few years ago, a very good friend of mine suffered a stroke from a dissected carotid artery. Once they had an image of her neck and saw the damaged blood vessel, one of the first questions the attending neurologist asked was, "Has she been to a chiropractor recently?" In fact, every single neurologist who saw her in subsequent weeks asked the same question.

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  1. Blogger Mike  

    Tell Paul Levy that its been a known association for YEARS!

    http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/chirostroke.html

    But of course their "college" disavows that complication.

    Criminal!

    9:56 AM

  2. Anonymous Anonymous  

    This is a well known complication of chirofraud. Then again, for those engaging in auto insurance fraud (given the broken "causation" system that the courts ridiculously allow), perhaps a bilateral carotid artery dissection is just comupence for their thievery. By the way, is anyone aware of even a single double-blind peer reviewed paper in which the chirofrauders were able to discern a "vertebral subluxation complex" from normative age and positional related findings on plain film spinal radiographs?

    ~Criminallopath~

    10:50 AM

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