quote:Since starting my training in neurology in 1993, I have seen virtually all the complications of chiropractic care that one can imagine. These include compressed spinal cords, crushed nerves in the neck and back, torn arteries and muscles in the neck, broken necks, a wide variety of strokes, and at least two deaths. I have also seen patients with huge tumours compressing their spinal cords, which their chiropractors were treating with a lengthy series of manipulations, needlessly delaying the urgent medical treatment that these patients required. My experience, unfortunately, is hardly unique. The vast majority of practicing clinical neurologists have similar stories to tell. The practice of chiropractic provides a steady stream of injured patients for an already grossly overworked medical community.Dr. Brad Stewart, neurologist and assistant professor of neurology, Univ. of Alberta, in the foreword to Wayne MacPhail's and Paul Benedetti's book Spin Doctors

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