Is Chiropractic manipulation dangerous ?
I will ask you this question, is medicine dangerous? There are fewer documented cases of injuries from Chiropractic manipulation per year than from drug realated accidents: mis-prescribed drugs, drug overdose, bad drug combinations and interactions, side effects and treatments in the medical profession. Persons injured by a chiropractic-like manipulation are all too often the victims of a friend of the individual or the individual themselves trying to deliver a manipulation and not a trained Chiropractor. Chiropractic students practice and perform hundreds to thousands of manipulations before being permitted to deliver them to a patient in need. Chiropractic Students practice and critique each other while in school in order to ensure being capable of performing them on patients. The most recognizable part of the manipulation is a cavitation (a pop or click sound) which is often heard or felt by the patient as a result of the manipulation. This cavitation is the result of a rapid releas
I will ask you this question, is medicine dangerous ? There are fewer documented cases of injuries each year from manipulation per year than from mis-prescribed drugs, drug overdose, bad drug combinations and treatments in the medical profession. Sure we sometimes see (and all to often) a newspaper article in which a person was injured by a chiropractic-like manipulation. If you read further into the story you will probably see that it was a friend of the individual or the individual themselves that delivered the injury and not a trained Chiropractor. We as Chiropractic students practice and perform hundreds to thousands of manipulations before we ever deliver them to a patient in need. We practice and critique each other while in school in order to ensure we are more than capable of performing them on you, the patient. The most often notable symptom of the manipulation is a cavitation (a pop or click sound) which is often heard and or felt by the patient as a result of the manipulatio
