New Large Study Finds No Increased Rick of Cervical Artery Dissection Following Cervical Manipulation
A 2026 study of more than 860,000 matched patients provides important new evidence on one of the most persistent safety questions surrounding cervical spinal manipulation. For decades, cervical spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) has been discussed as a possible cause of cervical artery dissection (CeAD), a rare condition involving a tear in a carotid or vertebral…