It seems a chiropractor in Canada was manipulating a patient’s neck and paralyzed her. Luckily she isn’t dead from a stroke.
Sandy had been going to Stiles regularly for more than seven years, receiving adjustments to her back and neck that she believed helped maintained her health. Minutes after a routine chiropractic visit that included a neck adjustment, on September 13, 2007, Sandy felt ill and had to compose herself in the clinic’s waiting room. She tried to drive home but only got as far as an off ramp south of Edmonton’s Yellowhead Highway. That’s when she called her husband, David who took her directly to hospital where she suffered a massive stroke.
Stiles said he could not comment on Sandy’s experience, nor on her condition citing patient confidentiality. He declined to comment on the suit.
After life-saving surgery at the University of Alberta Hospital, Sandy, a senior land administrator in the oil and gas industry, was left almost completely paralysed, a quadriplegic totally dependent on machines, hospital staff and her husband for her life support and care.
Some youtube video.
Complete Statement of Claim here:
Sandra Nette v. Gregory John Stiles et al.
For news footage of another quadriplegic chiropractic victim, Diane Rodrigue, see here
(About 25 min 45 sec in)
Chiropractic spinal manipulation can be beneficial, but conventional treatments are usually equally effective and much cheaper. However, spinal manipulation applied to the neck can cause stroke and death. So if you see a chiropractor or know someone who does please do not let them touch your neck. You could die.
(HT to the JREF forum)