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Cervical Myelopathy Due To Inadequate Manipulation: Casereport, Yiu-Chung Lau, Yued-Cheng Chen, Chau-Peng Leong, May-Kuen Wong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Manipulation is a classical method used to treat musculo-skeletal soreness and pain with its own indications , but the etiologies of aching pain are versatile. It is extremely dangerous to apply manipulation before adequate diagnosis. This is a report of two cases with injury of cervical cord myelopathy by inadequate manipulation.The first patient was 52 year-old man who suffered form neck and right hand soreness for move than a year. He received manipulation two weeks before this episode. He had a sense of electrical shock during manipulation with numbness and weakness of all the extremities developed gradually after he returned …