Death from chiropractic
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:29 pm
A man broke his neck during a chiropractic treatment and died.
What's most terrifying is that the chiropractor clearly had no idea how to respond to adverse events:
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What's most terrifying is that the chiropractor clearly had no idea how to respond to adverse events:
Someone who's been having treatment on their back who says they suddenly can't feel their arms and falls unconscious is manhandled into a chair?! Surely everyone knows you don't move people who may have damaged their spine unless absolutely necessary. And you definitely don't put an unconscious person in a chair."She started on the shoulders and went round his body.... Then the table dropped and he shouted 'You're hurting me. You are hurting me. I can't feel my arms,'" Mrs Lawler told the inquest.
She said Dr Scholten carried on treating her husband for a moment but then realised he was unresponsive and asked him to turn over.
He did not respond and the chiropractor manoeuvred him into a chair.
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The more I learn about chiropractic the more scared I get. The risks are so great, the benefits so small, and the chiropractic doctors appear to be so poorly trained that they panic when things go wrong.She said when paramedics arrived Dr Scholten did not inform them of the table drop element during the treatment only that she had been applying "gentle manipulation".