Chiropractic manipulation: Reasons for concern?

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 922-925

  Gouveia, Liliana Olim ^a   Castanho, Pedro ^b   Ferreira, Joaquim J ^c   Guedes, Miguel Moura ^a   Falcão, Filipa ^a   Melo, Teresa Pinho e ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOSÉ   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOÃO LOBO ANTUNES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Chiropractic; Safety; Spinal manipulation

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHIROPRACTIC; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOALGESIA; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NECK PAIN; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPRAXIC INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARESTHESIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SEROLOGY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERTIGO;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, SPINAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LATERAL MEDULLARY SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC; QUADRIPLEGIA; RADIAL NERVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 35349001077     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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