Over the course of the next few minutes, we're going to look at 6 different sets of information. First, we're going to look at what's been reported in the press. Then we'll move on to what we think we know about the situation at this point. The third area we'll be looking at what's to be learned yet in this case. The fourth is to evaluate how the details of this case as we understand them, square with the evidence that's been published to date. The fifth, we'll begin to talk about what we can learn from this experience and the sixth is depending upon your circumstances in your practice, we'll discuss a little bit about what you can do differently as a result of the information brought forward in this case. Next slide, please. Let's begin with the discussion about what's been reported in this matter. For those of you that have followed this scenario since its earliest days in January and February of this year, you'll know that there were early reports that Ms. May had fallen during a photo shoot and had rather severe injury to her neck. In the fullness of time, we understand that this was not the case. There was not a fall but there was a photo shoot. During the photo shoot, she was requested to hold a pose for an extended period of time that caused her to be in a posi- tion with her back arched and her neck turned to the side for an extended pe- riod of time. Immediately after this activity, this pose, she experienced neck pain. She went on to report in social media that she thought she had a "pinched nerve" following the photo shoot. Next slide, please. It was also reported in the popular press in February and March in this year that Ms. May sought care from an emergency room for the neck pain and dis- comfort she experienced during the photo shoot. We now know that this was not the case. To the best of our knowledge and understanding, Ms. May did not attend to an emergency room in January or February of this year for this neck pain. We do know that she attended into a chiropractor on January 27, 29 and February 1. We're not sure if she attended to any other providers along the way. She may have but there's no evidence to suggest she has at this point but it's not clear as to whether or not that has been completely ruled out. Next slide, please. Perhaps the most important or the most thorough discussion of this in the popular press was published on October 23 by the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette. In that presentation, the reporter made reference to the fact that Ms. May ex- perienced a high-velocity low-amplitude adjustment, a low-velocity low-ampli- tude manipulation and she had mechanical traction when she visited the chiro- practor in late January and early February of this year. Now we don't know any- thing more about what that means in the opinion of the reporter. We don't know if he knows what high-velocity low-amplitude adjustments are versus low amplitude. We certainly don't know what mechanical traction means. We're really in the dark about what was done by the chiropractor during those days. The gentleman also reported in the Post-Gazette that 8 hours after she was seen by the chiropractor on February 1 that she began to feel progressively worse and she developed dizziness and headache, numbness and eventually slurred speech.
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