Können durch Chirotherapie neurologische Schäden hervorgerufen werden?

Complications after cervical spine manipulation are rare. In our profession as experts for medical treatment mistakes we received from 07/2002 to 02/2004 six cases with serious complications in the central nervous system after manipulation. Five vertebral artery dissections with following brain infarction and one spinal epidural hematoma with extension from the cervical to the sacral spine in temporal coherence to the manipulation were registered. In all cases the patients had a complete persisting remission of the symptoms. In a calculation model we studied possible causes for vertebral artery damage. We could demonstrate a dependence of the material extension from the cervical rotation and the “free length” of the vertebral artery in the upper cervical spine.