(The Cut) – In 2016, 34-year-old Playboy model Katie May received a cervical adjustment, then suffered a fatal stroke; the Los Angeles County coroner determined her death was caused by the chiropractic visit. In 2022, 28-year-old Georgia resident Caitlin Jensen reportedly suffered a VAD and stroke after a neck adjustment. Her eyes turned inward, her vision was severely compromised, and she lost the ability to walk. And last year, a 40-year-old Missouri woman, Ashley Nelson, went to a chiropractor to cure a plane-ride-induced neckache. After her manipulation, she told a local news outlet, her “vision was completely crossed” and her face went numb. She learned at the hospital that a VAD had torn her artery, causing a clot which traveled to her brain and caused a stroke. A 2021 study in the journal Stroke estimates that 1 in 20,000 chiropractic neck adjustments results in an injury to vertebral arteries. While arterial dissection is not the only injury associated with chiropractic adjustments — some have experienced herniated discs and even vertebral fractures — it’s among the most devastating, and it’s almost certainly the one that triggers the most debate. (Read More)