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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
And I've had to pronounce a few. Not to mention a few quadriplegics and 2 strokes from dissection of the vertebral arteries after "manipulation".
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A dissection is what caused my good friend’s stroke. The doctors in the Neurological Trauma department suspect a neck manipulation caused it. Because of the location of the dissection, the Neurosurgeon elected to treat it via angiogram. The dissection was so severe it took two stents to open up the damaged artery. The before and after images of blood flow to his brain were absolutely amazing. The doctors told him he is one of the very few they have treated for this that ever got to go home. They had to give him medication to temporarily increase his blood pressure, to force some blood through the dissection, before the surgery. I am extremely happy to report that he appears to be on his way to a full recovery. We now call him the “stent double”.