Chiropractic spinal manipulation may be connected to strokes: report

Experts are calling on chiropractors to abandon the practice of spinal manipulation, saying it is both unnecessary and inadvisable.

Spinal manipulation is used to treat neck pain, and appears to have the medical community divided.

Writing in the British Medical Journal, Neil o’Connell and colleagues at the Brunel University Research & Rehab Centre said that cervical spine manipulation carries a low risk of stroke, which results from damage to the major neck arteries.

However, in the same edition, Professor David Cassidy of the University of Toronto, argued that cervical spine manipulation should not be abandoned as a treatment for neck pain.

He pointed to high quality evidence that “clearly suggests that manipulation benefits patients with neck pain” and raised doubts about any direct relation between spinal manipulation and stroke

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