Gateshead woman died after chiropractor ‘cracked her neck’
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24892133.gateshead-woman-died-chiropractor-cracked-neck/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3Yr-1iYDXnaNvDCuq2FgzRZXqezEk171vFB1mFfLiE2nL7DYfHnulVDmk_aem_xaMoEvoEGzBlSjc-d6JTjQ
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I remember when I used to think Chiropractors were just stretching/massaging muscles and the like.
Then I found out they basically beat the shit out of your arms, legs, back and neck to “fix” you.
Utterly insane profession.
How many people need lifelong health problems or just to fucking die after seeing a chiropractor for the “profession” to be seen as the bullshit it really is?
Fuckin hell this just made my neck retreat into my shoulders. It sounds weird but my neck is mad sensitive so anything like this makes me shudder
Chiropractry is an insanely normalised pseudoscience. You’d be surprised how many people don’t know how insane the origins of the practice are.
Saw [this on popular earlier](https://www.reddit.com/r/HairRaising/s/1FE1Y1RLO4), fuck that
I read about this the other day and there were remarks made that the chiropractor didn’t have access to her medical records and this is where the problems began.
I nearly choked on my coffee, why the HELL would a chiropractor have access to anyone’s medical records? It’s like giving a hairdresser access to them before a blow dry. And that’s not to put hairdressers down, but chiropractors are NOT medical professionals at all. The whole practice of them is absurd !!!
There’s a few important details in that story. It’s not as simple as it seems
So if you read the article, you’d see that this woman had particularly bad issues in and around her neck, had been to hospital years prior and the chiropractor was told, by her, that she was **just out** of hospital the day before.
Say what you will about chiropractors, they should have definitely not cracked her neck that day.
Sounds like a complicated case with the chiropractic council expected to respond on the part of the “health professional” that worked on her that day.
Stay away from chiropractors and osteopaths folks, whether you think they help or not, their naivety on medical issues involving their “patients” is the fault here.
Theirs quite a famous YouTube one who goes around half naked for views, caught it looking for ASMR. She nearly breaks the patient’s necks routinely.
Remember there is no advantage of chiropractic adjustment over a decent sports massage.
Sports massage just doesn’t have the risk of death or disability
All you need to know about chiropractic is the man who invented it claimed he got the idea from a ghost.
It’s really poorly written. “Joanna Kowalczyk, 29, from Gateshead, Tyneside, discharged herself from Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, and sought alternative treatment from a chiropractor after the incident.” It’s referred to later as a “naturally-occurring medical event, on a background of an undiagnosed medical condition” but the lack of earlier clarity was confusing.
And needless to say, those scumfucks and their pseudoscience are inexpiable.
Sadly too common this.
I’d advise anyone with any sort of troublesome injury to steer clear of any ‘alternative’ medicine, even the more ‘benign’ ones like various massage treatments.
My Thai ex gf put a customer in hospital with an over vigorous Thai massage at her “spa” in Leeds. I saw the complaint and it looked like a herd of cows had trampled over the woman’s back. (Scary thing was she was doing pregnancy massage too)
Just for balance how many people have been killed by medical doctors? All interventions risk.
The failure was not technique but the omission of ensuring all facts were taken at history. This lead to poor decision making.
I know of someone who had a stroke and they think it was due to chiropractor
I think this might be linked to a form of intentional whiplash that is done, but uncommon among chiropractors. It’s not as bad as it sounds but chiropractors can be a sketchy type of medical practice. Two famous people who died from it are Katie May and Robbie Basho. Both from possibly either weak arteries or a condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The thing is it’s a hard thing to get diagnosed with unless you have another issue.
Would anyone like me to put them through a series of manipulations and adjustments?
It will never not be insane that chiropractors are still allowed to do these dangerous maneuvers. I have bad neck pain, so I understand the desperation, but would never risk being paralyzed or killed. This poor woman was taken advantage of, the chiropractor should have turned her away.
A public service announcement for anyone who needs it: the first chiropractor came up with the idea when a ghost told him about it in his dream. It’s not a legitimate medical treatment so in a best case scenario you get absolutely nothing out of it. But clearly as this case illustrates, the worst case scenarios are horrifying.
Absolute snake oil. Ludicrous fucking nonsense based on nothing more than the placebo effect of cracking your knuckles passing off as medical fact.
Should be banned.
We’re all ignoring the part where she discharged herself from hospital the previous day? Cool.
Honest question.. is chiropracty actually a recognised medical… Thing? It seems to be in there with acupuncture on the kind of “some evidence” sort of space but sounds a lot more medically (if that’s a word).
Is it really that difficult to believe?
Just look around, people still believe that blaming asylum seekers for all our problems is going to fix anything.
Can publishers stop Americanising the titles. What the fuck and where the fuck is Gateshead?
Just say Tyne and Wear…
Had a really fucked up neck for a while, was causing me all sorts of grief, had brain fog, dizziness, felt almost disassociated.
Doctor was useless “It’ll go away with time” (had already been two months) so out out desperation I want to a chiropractor. No bullshit about being able to cure cancer with “adjustments” or any thing like that, just advice about posture, stretching, some exercises and some other bits. Was ship shape in two weeks.
I don’t see an issue with them as long as they stay in their lane and don’t go down the quackery route.
Misleading headline for this story she was already suffering with a condition that she sought help for at hospital and left before further testing could be done, she then refused to goto hospital after her condition deteriorated more after she seen the chiropractor.
I remember when I pulled my back my mate recommended a chiropractor and that quack wanted to do an assessment and a course of 15 sessions, went to a sports therapist who sorted it in an hour
This is like the 4th time I’ve read this. I have some type of neck arthritis, won’t to a regular doc about it & certainly will never see a chiropractor. Yoga was the only thing that helped me across the last decade anyways, so back to that.
Dunno chiropractor worked miracles on me fixed my posture , improved my lower back pain and cured my wrecked shoulder in 2 sessions.
Don’t ever let a chiropractor get away with calling themselves a Doctor. Any that does has a PhD in Chiropractic which is not the same as being an actual doctor. You wouldn’t let someone with a PhD in anything else fuck about with your body.
These snake oil salesmen absolutely hate being called out on the fact that they’re not doctors. Ask yourself why.
Ah yes the study of “your back hurts because there’s evil ghosts in your bones” honestly look it up