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A 23-year-old paramedic was left partially paralyzed after stretching her neck and rupturing a major artery, she said.
Natalie Kunicki works for a London ambulance service and will be in physical rehab for as long as a year, she said. She was watching television in bed after a night out with friends when she stretched her neck and heard a loud crack, she told the Daily Mail.
When she got up 15 minutes later to use the restroom, she collapsed and couldn't move her left leg.
This really is a red flag for the chiropractic profession, and similar practitioners. Chiropractic adjustments used to be more extreme than they are now; now it's all very subtle movements, but there are some practitioners out there, who do the old-fashioned jerky treatments. Of course, they're trained in anatomy and physiology, so they (theoretically) know how to avoid damaging arteries and all, but stories like this raise alarm bells.
This really is a red flag for the chiropractic profession, and similar practitioners. Chiropractic adjustments used to be more extreme than they are now; now it's all very subtle movements, but there are some practitioners out there, who do the old-fashioned jerky treatments. Of course, they're trained in anatomy and physiology, so they (theoretically) know how to avoid damaging arteries and all, but stories like this raise alarm bells.
But this isn't even about chiros. This is about doing something that literally every human being does. She stretched her neck. She wasn't even trying to crack it. I have to wonder if she had some sort of preexisting condition that caused her arteries to be thinner/weaker than most people's. In that case, the danger is the condition, not the stretching of the neck, which is completely normal.
But this isn't even about chiros. This is about doing something that literally every human being does. She stretched her neck. She wasn't even trying to crack it. I have to wonder if she had some sort of preexisting condition that caused her arteries to be thinner/weaker than most people's. In that case, the danger is the condition, not the stretching of the neck, which is completely normal.
There was another similar case recently. A 40-year-old woman suffered a stroke while doing a yoga handstand. She tore her right carotid artery.
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