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Medical research authors guilty of misrepresenting Chiropractic facts

An article in the May, 1995 issue of Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reports that numerous medical authors have misrepresented the facts when reporting on the incidence of injury related to chiropractic care. In many cases, the "chiropractic" care that caused injury was not even performed by a  chiropractor yet the research author chose to report them as examples of chiropractic care anyway.

 

The article reports on some 40 cases of iatrogenic (literally, doctor caused) chiropractic injury that was incorrectly attributed to chiropractors either through medical misrepresentation of the literature, inaccurate reporting by medical authors or inaccurate reporting by medico-legal journalists.

 

Listed examples of injury to patients that were attributed to chiropractic were performed by individuals as varied as untrained medical doctors, osteopaths, naturopaths, physiotherapists, a Kung-Fu practitioner, a spouse, an Indian barber, a blind, unlicensed health club masseur, more than a few "unknowns" and a couple of the patients were even injured when they tried to adjust themselves. s