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Brain stem injury due to chiropractic neck alignments?
After graduating college, I had much trouble holding a job, especially during the winter because of depression. My father, a retired Chiropractor tried to help me by giving me several neck alignments. The adjustments were extremely painful and sometimes resulted in an inability to turn my head at all. It probably sounds awful, but I was really weak at the time as I hadn't eaten or slept in days, so I may have been more prone to injuries. I ended up losing that job. After losing the job I recovered and found another. The following winter, after losing another job, I began to have complications in my head and neck. i.e. ears ringing, loss of sensation in head, and extreme cognitive difficulties such as bad memory, losing things and inability to concentrate, dizziness. I went to a doctor and he refused to send me for an MRI or to physical therapy. I found neck stretches under warm water to be extremely helpful.
What are the odds of having damage to the brain stem?
2 Answers
- Anonymous8 years ago
Any damage from the neck twisting such as a stroke or dissection would have presented sooner than this. In addition memory and cognitive deficits are not a brainstem injury. It would also be very unlikely that you had damage just to the vestibulocochlear area.
I think if we split the symptoms up we can have a better chance of getting somewhere.
Ringing in the ears (tinnitus) and dizziness go together quite well and could represent menieres disease or an inflammation in the inner ear.
Bad memory, losing things and inability to concentrate also go together quite well as psychological symptoms, it is unlikely for you to have an organic cause such as dementia.
Do you think you could be depressed?
If you came to me I would assess you for depression or another psychological issue.
But you can also get that dizziness sorted, there is a drug called stematil which works quite well on vertigo.
- billLv 58 years ago
Yikes, I have been going to chiro's since I was 15! I stopped going 30 years ago, they did far more damage than good. My back is a noodle. I can crack it up and down all day, People go nuts when the hear it. I tell them, do not go, but they don't listen. I will never go to one ever again. I found a shovel to be the best relief. Go dig a hole. It works.