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College student left paralyzed, only able to communicate by blinking after chiropractic visit
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College student left paralyzed, only able to communicate by blinking after chiropractic visit
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The doctor who did this should have their license taken away, ohhh righhhttt…
That’s the thing that makes me nervous about all that cracking.
Unscientific quackery like Chiro needs to be revealed for the bullshit that it is.
[Study on the deaths resulting from Chiro quacks.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20642715/)
And before you tell me “Oh, wait… it wOrKs for mE!”, keep your anecdotal garbage to yourself and get massages instead which are far less dangerous and likely much more effective.
My cousin got her neck adjusted and the chiropractor pulled her head so hard she had several veins and nerves severed in her neck. She had multiple strokes and her blood pressure was almost 300/190 when she went to the hospital. Almost died.
Chiropractors Are Quacks. You don’t need “adjustments.”
So you’re telling me suddenly yanking on people’s necks is a bad idea
[D.D. Palmer is the fraud that founded chiropractic.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_David_Palmer)
Edited to add:
https://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(07)00783-X/fulltext
They admit they paralyze 1 out of every 100k people lol
That guy being interviewed at the end is hilarious. 300.000 adjustments in his 20 year practice. That adds up to over 40 adjustments per day if he worked every single day of the year for 20 years. That is over 5 per hour with an 8 hour workday for 20 years straight.
What a machine!
What is wild is that people just seem to be totally unaware that Physiotherapists exist
During my third year of medical school I rotated on a Child Neurology service. My attending and I saw a 3yo patient with an inherited seizure disorder.
When we told the mother that the girl would need an extensive workup, the mother threatened to take the patient to see the family’s chiropractor, who had offered to cure her seizures with an “adjustment.” Fortunately we convinced her otherwise.
On investigation we learned that the family was basically worried about cost. A chiropractor would be significantly cheaper, and the family had no insurance.
I think we assume that patients who seek out pseudoscientific treatments have an isolated epistemological problem. Oftentimes there are very real barriers that keep them from pursuing allopathic care. People pursue fake medicine for the same reasons they read fake news: it’s easier to get. Ideology and ignorance are big factors too, but we cannot discount the importance of access.
My dads good friend went to a chiropractor about 5 years ago. Later in the shower he noticed his right hand was numb. The numbness gradually moved up his arm and he called the chiropractor. They said to get to an ER right away. The next day he was paralyzed from the next down and told he’d never walk again. My dad, bring newly retired, drove him to physical therapy every day and now the guy can walk and get about. Not at all like most of us but he can drive and get around. Amazing that he was so fit and healthy and after one visit, his life changed.
Hi, former chiropractor here. Got out of the profession for multiple reasons, and stuff like was a big part of the reason. I stopped performing adjustments of the neck after my national boards (you were required to demonstrate the technique before you could even get your license, which is pretty messed up in its own right). Many of my colleagues continued to happily adjust away because they honestly believed the BS that was fed to them in school about how “aligning the vertebrae to induce proper and optimal function of the cervical spinal nerves”.
It’s fairly obvious that when you start getting to the “clinical science/practice” courses in the last few quarters of chiropractic school that 90% of it is unfounded and based on a couple whackos from the early 1900s (profession started with its current name in 1895), who knew nothing of anatomy. You don’t yank and twist on a vertebral artery that has a *natural* kink in it at the top of the cervical spine, that’s just common sense, but here this poor woman is. I obviously feel more sorry for her and her family, but I also feel sorry for the chiropractor, who was brainwashed as if in a cult to truly believe this maneuver is beneficial for the health of their patients.
Chiropractors are NOT DOCTORS.
Physical Therapists are better!
Not one major university or college in the United States offers a doctorate in chiropractics. You don’t need an undergrad degree to go to chiropractic school.
Chiropractic is complete horseshit! Not many know the origins of chiropractic, but it’s generally a Victorian, ghost based, made-up pile of hooey! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chiropractic
At best, it is glorified massage therapy. At worst, it can cause this kind of stuff. And it always takes the patient’s money. Why would you see a doctor whose first course of action is to get you on a payment plan
[How Chiropractic Started as Ghost Religion](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/how-chiropractic-started-as-a-ghost-48498573/)
Just in case anyone was wondering how this woo-woo snake oil became so widely accepted as ‘medicine’. Just because visiting a chiropractor helped your specific problem doesn’t mean it’s good medicine, there’s a reason no reputable medical school in the US includes chiropractic programs.
edit, additional listening links:
https://pca.st/ub6f26bl
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3yG3h7LLK9LYYwb3NbYLW6
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-chiropractic-started-as-a-ghost-religion/id1373812661?i=1000447913202
* “Do you blame the chiropractor?”
* “Blame is a strong word…”
Yup, daughter learned to go to the chiropractor from mom. The guy was probably the family chiropractor.
And about that sketchy dude they had at the end as some attempt at balanced reporting claiming it’s 1:100,000? BULLSHIT. I personally know of three people who have had this kind of issue (arterial tear) from an “adjustment”.
Orthopedic physicians are the ones to go see if you have actual back problems.
I work next door to a chiropractor and I’m shocked by how many of our customers are WEEKLY visitors to them. That money would be better spent on a physical therapist who can help educate you on ways to improve your physical health.
My grandma got off easy, just 3 broken ribs and a huge health spiral that put her in a nursing home for 3 months over Christmas. Chiro should be illegal.
PSA: go to Doctors of Physical Therapy (if you’re in the USA). Not Chiropractors.
It’s not even remotely equivalent, although chiros will lie through their teeth about it
I knew a lovely woman who used to come in to the place I worked, and she had some sort of speech impediment. She could speak normally, but it was like she couldn’t fully finish a sentence. Her voice would just drop out at random moments, and you could see some marks around her neck. I don’t remember how the conversation came about, but one day she told me that she had seen a chiropractor, and they ended up breaking her neck during a session and almost killed her. Had to go into emergency surgery, and rehab and all that, and that’s why she has those speech issues and she’ll have them for the rest of her life. She filed a lawsuit I believe, and won it because of what happened to her. It’s good that she got some money, but it’s terrible all around. She was a really nice lady, though, and I’m glad she wasn’t paralyzed like this story and many others. Real scary stuff.
“John Lawlor trusted a chiropractor. That chiropractor, Arleen Scholten, manipulated his neck to treat leg pain. The result? Mr. Lawlor died. Why do chiropractors keep doing neck manipulation?” https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/02/lawlor-death-by-chiropractic-neck-manipulation/. Far too many of these cases. No consequences for chiropractors, chiropractic professional organizations fail to protect the public.
This is why as a training osteopathic physician (DO) my school does not allow neck manipulation. We know the risks and doing neck maneuvers are dangerous. Honestly even cracking your back is just a short term feel good measure and proper physical therapy will always be better than any HVLA (high velocity low amplitude ‘cracking’).
New fear unlocked
I’ve had my neck adjusted twice. First time sent a lightning bolt down my left side. Told him right there “Yeah, don’t ever touch my neck again.” Two weeks later, with no warning he did it again with the same result.
Went and saw a Physio instead and once all the muscles were released, my neck naturally moved back into place with barely a tweak and zero jolts.