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Immediate stroke following chiropractic cervical spine manipulation: a case report with causal analysis in Gilbert AZ Cervical spine manipulation (CSM) performed in the presence of vertebral artery dissection (VAD) has been implicated in immediate thromboembolic stroke. We report a 27-year-old male who developed immediate ischemic symptoms after CSM, with imaging confirming bilateral VAD and bilateral…

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine in Gilbert AZ I read with interest the paper by Pierre Boucher, Cervical Spine Manipulation Therapy, Arterial Dissection, and the Law: Informed Consent and Causation in Goldie C. Arsenault. 1 While I applaud the effort of his causation analysis, the author could have evaluated causation of the dissection and…