• DOI:10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181557bb1
Corpus ID: 42353750

Safety of Chiropractic Manipulation of the Cervical Spine: A Prospective National Survey

@article{Thiel2007SafetyOC,
  title={Safety of Chiropractic Manipulation of the Cervical Spine: A Prospective National Survey},
  author={H. Thiel and J. Bolton and S. Docherty and J. Portlock},
  journal={Spine},
  year={2007},
  volume={32},
  pages={2375-2378}
}

H. Thiel, J. Bolton, +1 author J. Portlock

Published 2007

Medicine

Spine

Study Design. Prospective national survey. Objective. To estimate the risk of serious and relatively minor adverse events following chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine by a sample of U.K. chiropractors. Summary of Background Data. The risk of a serious adverse event following chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine is largely unknown. Estimates range from 1 in 200,000 to 1 in several million cervical spine manipulations. Methods. We studied treatment outcomes obtained from… CONTINUE READING

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