Strokes Due to Chiropractic Cervical Manipulation

Textbooks

 Chiropractic textbooks that admit (more or less) the chiropractic subluxation may not exist (then go on to teach how to detect and correct subluxations and the many conditions for which this is supposedly efficacious):

Alana K. Callender, Gregory Plaugher, and Claudia A. Anrig, "Introduction to Chiropractic Pediatrics," in Pediatric Chiropractic, ed. Claudia A. Anrig and Gregory Plaugher (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1998), at 9.

Carl S. Cleveland III, "Vertebral Subluxation," in Fundamentals of Chiropractic, ed. Daniel Redwood and Carl S. Cleveland III (St. Louis: Mosby, 2003), at 129-146.

Joseph C. Keating Jr., Gregory Plaugher, Mark A. Lopes, and Edward E. Cremata, "Introduction to Clinical Chiropractic," in Textbook of Clinical Chiropractic, ed. Gregory Plaugher and Mark A. Lopes (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1993), at 5-6.

David H. Peterson and Thomas F. Bergmann, Chiropractic Technique: Principals and Procedures, 2nd ed. (St. Louis: Mosby, 2002) at 40-42.

Howard Vernon, "The Treatment of Headache, Neurologic, And Nonmusculoskeletal Disorders by Spinal Manipulation," in Principles and Practice of Chiropractic, ed. Scott Haldeman, 3rd ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2005), at 176.

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