Expert analysis: Did cervical spine manipulation cause the death of Katie May?
Chiropractic Economics
MARCH 10, 2025
A recent case report on Katie May, who died in 2016 after receiving chiropractic cervical spine manipulation (CSM) from a DC, has concluded it did not cause her death. The case report’s author, Steven Brown, DC, DIPL MED AC, came to the conclusion that CSM did not cause the vertebral artery dissection (VAD) or the stroke that took Mays life. The study, Causal analysis of vertebral artery dissection and fatal stroke following chiropractic cervical spine manipulation, appeared in December 20
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