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Dr. Hoffman:
Hello everybody. Dr. Stu Hoffman, President of ChiroSecure. The intent of this show is to offer up some information to you on what happens when the stroke issue rears its ugly head. What is the proper way to respond? Utilizing the literature that is available to us and not to just let our emotions get in the way of good, sound judgment. In fact, when we see an article appear or a news show appear that's attacking what we do as chiropractors and we know the information is false, do we just go and respond? I don't know about that. I think that we need to respond, but it needs to be based on sound information. Here we have an article published at Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Vertebral Artery Dissection after a Chiropractic Neck Manipulation, and they reference an estimated 1 in 20,000 spinal manipulations results in a vertebral artery aneurysm or dissection and ischemic infarct. We all know this is not true, and the facts are absolutely wrong, so I asked Dr. Clum to come on again for us and walk us through the right way to go about letting the university and the author know that their article referenced statistics that are incorrect and not at all based on current research and literature that we have so readily available. I want to bring Dr. Clum on, and our goal is to get inside your head, Dr. Clum, and understand how you approach these situations because you did respond to this on numerous occasions, and I know that's what you're going to bring us up to speed on, and how do you decide when to respond and ultimately what to expect the outcome to be? Can you tell us first, how did you even learn about this article from Baylor? Thanks, Stu. I appreciate it very much, and it's great to be with you again today. The Baylor article came to light in a very odd fashion. There was a promotional piece that was produced by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center last year. It was talking about their neurology department and their helicopter air flight service and that sort of thing, and they used the example of a case of a woman who had a vertebral artery dissection. She was in the chiropractor's office. She had the vertebral artery dissection, and it was recognized. The chiropractor took the appropriate steps, made the appropriate emergency calls. The woman wound up going to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center by way of their ambulance service. The neurology folks did their job. It had a very good outcome, and the woman returned to her family and to her life and, essentially, it was a feel-good story for everybody from Vanderbilt's perspective.
Dr. Clum:
In that article, they made reference to this 1 in 20,000 number that you just spoke of. I thought I had an understanding of where they came up with that
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