How Safe Are Chiropractic Adjustments?

Death from an adjustment:	1 : 5,850,000
Death from a lightening strike/yr:	1 : 2,000,000
Death from being hit by a car/yr:	1 : 20,000
Death by regular NSAID use/yr:	1 : 4,000
Death related to spinal neck surgery:	1 : 145

                   

Haneline, DC, Croft DC, MPH, Frishberg, MD. Association of Internal Artery Dissection and Chiropractic Manipulation.  The Neurologist 2003; 9(1): 35-44.