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Accordingly, what are the risks of chiropractic treatment?

Serious complications associated with chiropractic adjustment are overall rare, but may include:

• A herniated disk or a worsening of an existing disk herniation.
• Compression of nerves in the lower spinal column (cauda equina syndrome)
• A certain type of stroke (vertebral artery dissection) after neck manipulation.

Secondly, do chiropractors actually help? Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. If you are contemplating or receiving chiropractic care, it might help protect both your pocketbook and your health.

Keeping this in consideration, has anyone died from a chiropractor?

RESULTS: Twenty six fatalities were published in the medical literature and many more might have remained unpublished. The alleged pathology usually was a vascular accident involving the dissection of a vertebral artery. CONCLUSION: Numerous deaths have occurred after chiropractic manipulations.

Is chiropractic a pseudoscience?

Chiropractic is a pseudoscientific complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) that is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. Chiropractors are not physicians or medical doctors.