Every time someone well-meaning suggests I see a chiropractor for my migraines, I have this little moment of “ah, you’re new here. You weren’t here prior to 2018 when a chiropractor very gently adjusted my neck for my migraines, and I ended up having to get an emergency MRI because the ensuing symptoms were indicative of a brain bleed.”
It wasn’t a brain bleed. The muscles on the entire right side of my neck “just” tore (Spoiler there is nothing “just” about that kind of traumatic injury. I am still in physical rehab for it), and I couldn’t hold my head up, see straight, walk or do any of the things I’d previously taken for granted until several weeks later when the area finally started to heal.
This was before I knew I had Ehlers Danlos, btw. But this is true even for people who don’t have a connective tissue disorder: Don’t let chiropractors touch your neck.
There are a lot of vital nerves and blood vessels there, and even gentle adjustments of the area can have life-threatening consequences.
I know chiropractic care can be pain relieving–I still get it for my lower back and hips because I work with a chiropractor who knows about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and sometimes my hips need to be popped back in at short notice, and it’s easier to hop walk in and see her than wait for physical therapy–but it is a short-term relief that doesn’t actually correct why something is happening.
If you can afford it, physical therapy will likely help more in the long term. I know not everyone can afford it, and that’s why chiropractors have such a booming trade in the US, but please, I’m begging you, don’t get your neck adjusted.
The spinal cord specialist I saw after my injury told me the number one reason he used to see people for traumatic brain injuries was car wrecks, followed by other major roadside injuries. He said those numbers were still the highest, but after that, the majority of his patients were survivors of chiropractic injury.
Do Not Get Your Neck Adjusted.
It’s been over 5 years, and I still can’t move my neck properly on my right side. I still struggle to eat and drink because my muscles will randomly seize up. It feels like my skull no longer fits on top of my spine because of the scar tissue. Please. I just want people to be safe.
And if you are a chiropractor reading this and thinking, “Well, I’ve never injured anyone, skill issue.” No.You Have Gotten Lucky. Rethink how you apply your trade. Please, you can still help people while recommending safer options for specific body parts. Learn to do pressure point release and acupressure. Teach patients how to stretch and relax the area safely. Just fucking stop cracking people’s necks like pop rock candy.
Seconding this. I was having some muscle spasms in my neck last year, I tried a chiropractor to see if it helped. It did, temporarily, but then I started having double-vision. I told my chiropractor this, and he said it was just dehydration. After another couple appointments, one day my vision went totally black for a solid 20 seconds or so, and when it came back, I had blooms of color across my vision that made reading almost impossible. I spent four days in the hospital while they ran tests to try to figure out what was going on (including a CAT scan and two MRIs), and then another four days later in the summer when the eye specialist was concerned that I might lose my visual acuity permanently and sent me to see the neurologists in Boston. I was told by one of the doctors in the ER that one of my neck arteries was partially torn and that it was “consistent with too-aggressive chiropractic neck adjustments.” I was also later told that I have something called a Chiari malformation (which is a birth defect where a bit of your brain stem pokes down into your spinal column), which I had never known about – the best theory the doctors had for me was that the neck adjustments had pulled on it, which pulled on my brain, which put strain on my ocular nerve, which caused my vision problems.
It has been over a year and I only healed to about 98% of what my vision was before. While I still occasionally get a bit of double vision, mostly it manifests as text not looking as clear as it once did. I’ve adapted so that I don’t notice it as much unless I’m paying attention (like right now while i’m talking about it).
Do not let a chiropractor adjust your neck (unless specifically ordered by your doctor, and in that case presumably they will have done all the scans to determine that it won’t hurt you further, and it will be done in supervised lab conditions where they can keep an eye on you in case anything goes wrong – BECAUSE IT CAN GO VERY WRONG).
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I just did this, and Etsy doesn’t actually tell you anywhere on the site how to find your username (it’s randomly generated), which you need to opt out, so here’s how to do that:
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
life is so much better when u stop hyperanalysing urself and realise u can’t hate urself into being better u just have to accept ur a lil weird n fucked up slightly but it’s not that deep just live
Although there were planes used against the miners in the Battle of Blair Mountain, it is not true that this was the first time planes were used to drop bombs on American soil against Americans.
The Battle of Blair Mountain took place in August and September of 1921. Just a few months prior to that, on May 31 and June 1, planes were also used to help destroy the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a prosperous black neighborhood nicknamed The Black Wall Street. At least 39 people died during the event, which is known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. Hundreds were wounded, and 6,000 black people lost their homes.
Both of these events were hugely important moments in American history.
Ask yourself why neither was taught to you in school. Also ask your local school board.
