Selective criticism confounds objective evaluation of case report on spinal manipulation and vertebral artery dissection

Selective criticism confounds objective evaluation of case report on spinal manipulation and vertebral artery dissection

Abstract

Objective: The author, Steven Brown, responds to criticism (by Albertson et al.) of a recent case report by Romozzi et al. that described a patient who developed a vertebral artery dissection (VAD) after receiving spinal manipulative therapy (SMT).
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Romozzi et al.'s case involved a 25-year-old woman with a long history of migraine without aura. After SMT, her headache pattern changed: she developed longer, worse headaches that didn’t respond to usual treatments. Romozzi et al. proposed that the SMT triggered the VAD.
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