Denne

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Caitlin Jensen, 28, walked into a Georgia chiropractor in June 2022. She came out with four dissected arteries, a stroke, cardiac arrest, and a traumatic brain injury. It took her nine months to say "Mom" again.

She had come in for lower back pain.

Your brain runs on four arteries. Two carotids in front, two vertebrals in back. The vertebrals don't run free. They thread up through narrow bone tunnels inside each cervical vertebra, C6 to C1, then loop around the top vertebra in a tight horizontal curve called the V3 segment.

When a chiropractor performs a high-velocity rotational thrust on the upper neck, V3 gets stretched and snapped against bone. The inner artery wall tears. Blood seeps between the layers. A flap forms. Flow blocks, or clots break off and travel to the brainstem.

In Caitlin's case all four vessels tore. Paramedics worked 12 minutes restoring her pulse. Surgeons placed a stent in one artery and repaired what they could in the rest. The brain injury came from the bleed that followed the stroke that followed the dissection.

One in 20,000 spinal manipulations triggers this. Arterial dissection causes 2% of strokes overall but 8 to 25% of strokes in patients under 45. In 55% of cases symptoms start within 12 hours of the adjustment. No screening test identifies who's at risk beforehand.

The American Chiropractic Association's own spokesman told the New York Times patients should get vascular scans before neck manipulation. Almost none do. Informed consent matching a surgical risk disclosure isn't standard. The average victim is 40.

Caitlin's back pain lived four vertebrae below the artery the thrust tore.

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

What happened to @smartfood movie theater butter popcorn 😩😩 it was literally THE best butter flavored RTE popcorn out there! Please bring it back.

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@Cookunity what is this new update 😩😩 I just want to scroll all the meals at once not 15 subcategories. There's got to be a way. Even when I select full menu it automatically filters to one meal type on the next screen. This layout is so unfriendly. And it's not working 🫠

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@dom_lucre They're so bad this year 😩 even though you know they don't bite it's still distressing having all these things flying around and constantly touching you.

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@bathbodyworks trying to finalize my transaction this morning and this evening and it's saying inventory is low or out for a selection but it's not showing me which one. I have double digit items in my cart. Help please!

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@EstieMaddie It's giving Grandpa Joe when they found the golden ticket 🤭

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@vicberggren @TRIGGERHAPPYV1 His teeth are all the same exact shape too

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

Circled back again and it finally worked 🙌🏾🙌🏾💃🏾💃🏾

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@Ticketmaster trying to buy presale @Jeezy tickets for my birthday May 1st but it's not showing the usual search box where you enter the code. Only this screen.

[Dr. Yemi MD @DrYemiMD]

At this point in history, I would like to undo my board certification with the ABA and unfinish my residency so I too can become a surgeon general nominee. #caseymeans #surgeongeneral #surgeongeneralnominee

[lightskint ˚✧ @blockianism]

@SeeRacists This is how racism is systemic. These people influences how black people have to move in society from the schools, to the legal system, to the hospital, ect.

[🦢 @meishato]

They'll ban abortion to "save the children."
They'll ban books to "protect the children."
They'll attack drag queens to "defend the children."
But the Epstein files? Suddenly "protect the children" doesn't apply.

[CarbonClyve @clyveSPEAKS]

I was NOT expecting all those layers in #AllHerFault

Very good watch

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@IMissJamesWoods @EstieMaddie @DisneyCruise Clearly her mom must have had the birth certificates for her foster children.

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@CrazyVibes_1 Your mom chose to wear something out of her closet so regardless of the dress color any feelings of being underdressed are on her. Don't take that on. Enjoy your wedding. This is small stuff even if it doesn't feel like it.

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

Dear @Starbucks. Please just make the Apple croissant a permanent item. Why are we playing games?!

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@TheMaineWonk And HCA is notorious for being a terrible place to work and receive medical care.

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@JimsIntoIt I hope she googles it. #mafs

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@unomi_ This is perfect.

[Denne @BiscuitMD]

@imanilashon She spent the entire time being like "he doesn't like me" then when he said no she claimed to be shocked 🙄 MA'AM!