Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

Why Chiropractics is WAY Safer Than You Think 🤯

27 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment from a YouTube video by Joy Kong, MD arguing that serious complications from chiropractic adjustments (notably vertebral artery dissection leading to stroke) are extremely rare — quoted as roughly 1 in 4 million to 1 in 40 million adjustments. The speaker compares that risk to everyday activities (putting the head back in a shampoo bowl, blow-drying hair — "beauty parlor syndrome") and asserts that taking Tylenol causes more deaths annually than chiropractors do. The speaker emphasizes informed consent while downplaying the relative risk.

Questions this video answers

"Anywhere from 1 in 4 million to 1 in 40 million adjustments."

Putting your head back in a shampoo bowl ("beauty parlor syndrome").

Tylenol (acetaminophen).

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When I was in school, there was a mom that slapped her child in the backseat, caused a stroke. The holy grail of worst case scenarios for a chiropractor is a vertebral artery dissection cause a stroke. So we have to tell people, look, it's anywhere from 1 in 4 million to 1 in 40 million adjustments. That was the legal number that I have to get the same risk as if you put your head back in a shampoo bowl. That's the same exact. Really? Yeah, it's called beauty parlor syndrome. No way. Just from putting your head in extension. When I was in school, there was a mom that slapped her child in the back seat, caused a stroke. Just blow drying your hair carries the same risk as getting a chiropractic adjustment. You're more likely to be struck by lightning than have that happen. But look, it's a risk. That's why we tell you informed consent. But I will tell you taking Tylenol kills far more people every year than chiropractors do.