More research showing a link between spinal manipulation and stroke.
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/60/9/1424
Another reason to be wary of chiropractic "adjustments&
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Mary Plummer
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Wow..remember all the times we saw this recommended for...ms
...dogs?? This is actually pretty frightening; I know quite a few people who get this done regularly - not me 
when i was in Miami at one point the nespapers were
full of a story of a lady with cervical cancer who was killed this way...most chiros will send these people to a MD when they diagnose this but a lot just go into neck jerking without an exam...saw this happen while on hurricane rescue. one of the doctors who was at the center was a chiro and he popped every ones neck, even people who were panicky....didn't do any good but made him look like the Ahol that he was....