Arm Weakness in a Child Following Chiropractor Manipulation of the Neck

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Vertebral artery dissection has been previously described following chiropractic maneuvers to the neck region. Usual clinical findings include unilateral or bilateral neck pain associated with cerebellar and lower brainstem infarctions. Hundsberger et al1 report a 31-year-old previously healthy woman with a spontaneous bilateral vertebral artery dissection. She had spontaneous right-sided neck pain for 3 weeks when the pain suddenly radiated down both arms, and she developed a transverse

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    Nine articles on safety were included and summarized as background literature but were not formally reviewed for quality.47–55 The 9 articles on safety were as follows: 1 expert opinion,47 2 case reports,48,49 1 “best evidence topic,”50 3 narrative reviews,51–53 and 2 systematic reviews.54,55 The 2014 systematic review summarizes this topic as follows: “Published cases of serious adverse events in infants and children receiving chiropractic, osteopathic, physiotherapy, or manual medical therapy are rare … no deaths associated with chiropractic care were found in the literature to date.

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