How Chiropractic Kills
Here is an important article from the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society. J.D. Haines, a doctor and professor from the University of Oklahoma, describes the numerous cases where neck manipulations done by chiropractors have led to death and serious neurological injuries.
Fatal Adjustments: How Chiropractic Kills
When Kristi Bedenbaugh wanted relief from a bad sinus headache, the 24 year-old former beauty queen and medical office administrator made the mistake of consulting a chiropractor. An autopsy performed on Kristi revealed that the manipulation of her neck had split the inner walls of both vertebral arteries, resulting in a fatal stroke.
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The real tragedy is that cervical spine manipulation is totally worthless in treating problems like Kristi Bedenbaugh’s. So, however rare the incidence of adverse outcome, the risk always outweighs any perceived benefit. There is no medically proven benefit whatsoever to chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine.
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The public is led to believe that physicians disparage chiropractors out of some sort of professional jealousy. Yet there is only one reason that physicians judge chiropractors so harshly. Medicine is scientifically based, whereas chiropractic is not supported by a single legitimate scientific study.
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under Skepticism & beliefs.
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Comment from wendell
Time: December 10, 2009, 8:38 pm
Spinal manipulation has been used for thousands of years around the world to try and fix health problems. The modern version was developed by Daniel D Palmer in the nineteenth century and called chiropractic from the Greek words for doing and hand (praktikos and cheiro).
Comment from rockford chiropractor
Time: December 10, 2009, 8:41 pm
We all know that chiropractic treatments are very fatal if it not performed correctly. Chiropractor deals with our backbone, Backbone is very sensitive one wrong move can kill you.
Comment from DDan
Time: February 5, 2010, 3:53 pm
Alright, in order to balance out this article, where are the:
“How drugs kill”
“How Western doctors kill”
“How electo-shock therapy maims”
“How babies are legally drugged with FDA Class II drugs”
,etc. articles?
(US FDA Class II drugs include heroin, cocaine, etc..)
Where are the numbers of each to prove which one is more dangerous? And if medicine were really scientifically based, why are there unusual side-effects and unknown reactions to so many of them?
You could go along with the ex-head of the US CDA and take your mercury-filled H1N1 vaccine, knowing that mercury is one of the most poisonous substances on earth (remember the mercury-in-tuna debacle?) and knowing that the same aforementioned ex-head of the US CDA is now working as a highly paid executive for the company that makes the H1N1 vaccine. Go ahead, take your vaccine, it’s scientific…
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