Has Anyone Died from Chiropractic Adjustment?

Are Chiropractors Safe? ... However, death caused by chiropractic manipulations is very rare. A RAND study states that the rate of serious complications caused by chiropractic adjustments are one in one million.

Has anyone ever died from going to the chiropractor?

Results: Twenty six fatalities were published in the medical literature and many more might have remained unpublished. The alleged pathology usually was a vascular accident involving the dissection of a vertebral artery. Conclusion: Numerous deaths have occurred after chiropractic manipulations.

How many people die annually from chiropractors?

Therefore, there are about 40-50 manipulation-caused strokes in the US per year, and perhaps a dozen deaths.

Maya Lin-Takahashi

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