Putting The Stroke Issue to Bed

Emerging Areas of Interest

y Spinal Adjusting and cerebrospinal fluid leaks ◦ Presentation: positional headache caused by CSF leak from a dural tear ◦ Most common origins: Mechanical disruptions from lumbar puncture, myelography, spinal anesthesia, cranio- spinal surgery ◦ Other mechanical events associated:Valsalva maneuver, coughing, sneezing etc ◦ First published observation re: spinal adjusting by Mokri, 1997 Mayo Clin Proceedings. No causal relationship asserted, observation that one patient in study had seen a chiropractor

Made with FlippingBook HTML5