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Suggest Cure For Stroke

I have been seeing a chiropractor and he s been cracking my right side of my neck for a while. Don t know if it s related but my right side is has a paralysis where I have to drag my right foot and it s heavy and when I m backing up it s like my brain is trying to tell my foot to lift.
Wed, 21 Jan 2015
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I read your question carefully but it is unclear what diagnostic steps did you take to verify it is a case of stroke since you're asking for a stroke cure.
At times neck chiropractic manipulations can have complications like cervical blood vessel dissection leading to stroke. However usually a stroke doesn't cause isolated paralysis of only one limb, more often both limbs are involved on the same side.
Furthermore if you have had no imaging to say it's a stroke some more info on age, other conditions etc would have been useful because there are other possible causes like multiple sclerosis, brain tumor etc which could cause a paralysis.
So I wouldn't jump to conclusions but seek for a neurological evaluation sooner rather than later and possibly imaging tests to determine the cause of that limb weakness and necessary measures.

I hope things work out for the best.
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Suggest Cure For Stroke

I read your question carefully but it is unclear what diagnostic steps did you take to verify it is a case of stroke since you re asking for a stroke cure. At times neck chiropractic manipulations can have complications like cervical blood vessel dissection leading to stroke. However usually a stroke doesn t cause isolated paralysis of only one limb, more often both limbs are involved on the same side. Furthermore if you have had no imaging to say it s a stroke some more info on age, other conditions etc would have been useful because there are other possible causes like multiple sclerosis, brain tumor etc which could cause a paralysis. So I wouldn t jump to conclusions but seek for a neurological evaluation sooner rather than later and possibly imaging tests to determine the cause of that limb weakness and necessary measures. I hope things work out for the best.