YSK That chiropractic spinal manipulation has been found to be causally linked to stroke as well as cervical cord oedema and carotid artery dissections.

The difference is that medical doctors have well-designed randomized controlled trials that support the efficacy of their interventions. There may be known, proven risks, but the known, proven benefits of the treatment must outweigh the known, proven risks to be recommended by medical doctors. Chiropractors do not even attempt to substantiate their claims with well-controlled randomized trials. Instead, they make claims that spinal manipulation works, hope you trust their word and their fake degree, and then charge you for their "treatment". The risks of chiropractic spinal manipulation out-weighs the benefits, because while there are known, proven risks, there are no known, proven benefits.

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