Strokes Due to Chiropractic Cervical Manipulation

Other Resources
Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008). Great reference work on alternative medicine, including chiropractic.

R. Barker Bausell, Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). A biostatistician formerly with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine examines the lack of evidence underlying alternative medicine practices, including chiropractic, and offers explanations for why such treatments often appear to the patient to be working. Written in terms a layperson can understand.

Paul Benedetti & Wayne MacPhail, Spin Doctors: The Chiropractic Industry Under Examination (Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2002). Expose of chiropractic by two Canadian journalists.

Samuel Homola, Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999). A critical look at chiropractic written by a chiropractor.

William McDonald et al., How Chiropractors Think and Practice: The Survey of North American Chiropractors (ADA, OH: Institute for Social Research, Ohio Northern University, 2003).

Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, Chiropractic Services in the Medicare Program: Payment Vulnerability Analysis, 0E1-09-02-00530 (2005) 8¬9, 27, www.oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-09-02-00530.pdf. Concluded many inappropriate payment claims made by chiropractors to Medicare were for "maintenance" treatments, which are deemed not medically necessary by Medicare.

© 2009 Jann Johnson Bellamy, J.D., (jbellamy@alternativemedsafety.org), Campaign for Alternative Medicine Consumer Safety. Reprinted by The Abelson Law Firm with permission. Further reproduction prohibited without permission of the author.