Safety

Safety

Here is some data that is reporting the relative safety of chiropractic management.

Adverse Events Following Chiropractic Care for Subjects With Neck or Low-Back Pain: Do The Benefits Outweigh the Risks?

JMPT Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 461-464 (July 2008)

This synopsis provides an overview of the benign and serious risks associated with chiropractic care for subjects with neck or low-back pain. Most adverse events associated with spinal manipulation are benign and self-limiting. The incidence of severe complications following chiropractic care and manipulation is extremely low. The best evidence suggests that chiropractic care is a useful therapy for subjects with neck or low-back pain for which the risks of serious adverse events should be considered negligible.

Adverse Effects of Spinal Manipulative Therapy in Children Younger Than 3 Years: A Retrospective Study in a Chiropractic Teaching Clinic

JMPT Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 419-423 (July 2008)

This study shows that for the population studied, chiropractic manipulation produced very few adverse effects and was a safe form of therapy in the treatment of patients in this age group.

Risk of Vertebrobasilar Stroke and Chiropractic Care: Results of a Population-Based Case-Control and Case-Crossover Study

Spine 2008;33:S176–S183

Because the association between chiropractic visits and stroke is not greater than the association between
PCP visits and stroke, there is no excess risk of stroke from chiropractic care.

What Are The Risks of Neck Adjustments?

Vertebral Artery Dissection: An Acceptable Risk?

Cervical Spine Manipulation: A Risk/Benefit Analysis

Safety of Spinal Manipulation in the Treatment of Lumbar Disk Herniations

How Safe Is Chiropractic Care?

A Brief Video Reviewing Safety Issues

Safety of Chiropractic Manipulation of the Cervical Spine: A Prospective National Survey.
Spine. 32(21):2375-2378, October 1, 2007

Haymo W. Thiel, DC, PhD; Jennifer E. Bolton, PhD; Sharon Docherty, PhD; Jane C. Portlock, PhD
We evaluated the risk of serious and minor adverse events following chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine in 19,722 patients. The estimated risk of a serious adverse event was, at worse ≈1 per 10,000 treatment consultations immediately after cervical spine manipulation, ≈2 per 10,000 treatment consultations up to 7 days after treatment, and ≈6 per 100,000 cervical spine manipulations. Risks of minor adverse events were more common. [more]

http://www.spinejournal.com

The Safety of Chiropractic article by Frank Painter, D.C.

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"In the past 65 years of history between 1934 and 1999, there have been only 19 deaths associated in some way shape or form with chiropractic care. If one person were to review all 19 deaths at a rate of 1 case per day, it would take only 19 days.

If we considered the same in medicine, it would take 542 separate people their entire lives, reviewing one case per day, to review the 14,625,000 deaths due to medical mistakes, drug reactions, and botched surgeries over the same period.

Another way to look at it, it would take one person 40,068 years to review the deaths due to medical mistakes compared to only 19 days for chiropractic related deaths."

~ Ronald J. Farabaugh, D.C .~

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