Man Dies From Stroke Reportedly Brought On By Chiropractic Treatment

Posted: Published on November 10th, 2014

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A routine trip to the chiropractor may have caused a 30-year-old mans death.

Jeremy Youngblood, of Ada, Oklahoma, was reportedly a healthy young man before he visited his chiropractor.

Jeremy died of acute cerebellar infarction due to manipulation of the neck. Coroners say it was brought on by the visit to the chiropractor, reports FOX 31.

The majority of the strokes happen in the vertebral arteries in the back, Dr. Bill Kinsinger, President of the Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision said. The stress on that artery at that segment where it makes that turn against thebone is most susceptible to stroke.

Kinsinger is an outspoken critic of chiropractic therapy. He said that when a chiropractor adjusts your neck, a tear can be caused in the artery. Then, when your body tries to fix it by creating a clot, the clot can break off and travel until the vessels become too small. That action can cause a stroke to occur.

Its not that these strokes are happening everyday; theyre not, Kinsinger said. But they are happening. And theyre usually happening to young, otherwise healthy people who should have never been injured for benefit of nothing.

Jeremys mother, Linda Youngblood, is distraught over her sons death.

I try not to think about how it happened. I have nightmares and all kinds of things running through my mind that I dont want running through my mind, Linda said.

Jeremys stroke occurred in the chiropractors office, and his family says no one in the office called 9-1-1, reports KFOR. Instead, they called his father Lynn, a bus driver, and told him to come and get his son.

It took all of us to get him off the table and onto the bus and get him to the emergency room he lay there for 6 hours, Lynn said.

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