According to the Cleveland Clinic,<\/a> a VAD is “a tear in one or more tissue layers that make up your vertebral artery,” which, in rare cases, can be a “cause of stroke in older adults.”<\/p>\n“I knew straight away that it was from the chiropractor. That’s where the pain all started from,” Klundt said, according to PEOPLE.<\/p>\n
Klundt said she was quickly transferred to the ICU of a different hospital after the diagnosis, the publication reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said I could’ve had a stroke. If I hadn’t gone to (the) hospital, I would’ve had a stroke. I could’ve so easily died,” Klundt said, per PEOPLE. “It traumatized my whole family.”<\/p>\n
Klundt, a former fitness and wellness advocate, said she was bedridden for the first month, explaining that she was “pretty much in bed,” “exhausted” and “sleeping for 17 hours a day,” the publication reported.<\/p>\n
“I needed help walking. I was in constant pain,” she said, according to PEOPLE.<\/p>\n
Klundt said she still feels the side effects nearly three years after the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a whole lifestyle change. I’ll never ski again, I’ll never go on a rollercoaster. I’m not teaching [fitness] classes anymore. There’s still a residual fear of it happening again. I’m doing well now but it’s been a long recovery process,” Klundt said, per PEOPLE. \u201cMy life was really put on pause. I absolutely regret going to the chiropractor. It’s not about blaming anyone, it’s just about spreading more awareness. I want people to understand what the symptoms are and that this is a life-threatening condition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (WKRC) – A woman claimed a chiropractor tore her artery while cracking her neck during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[5555,72160,105,4326,72162,1586,72163,11548,72161,16,15,14070],"class_list":{"0":"post-174401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-awareness","9":"tag-chiropractor","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-neck-adjustment","13":"tag-pain","14":"tag-recovery-process","15":"tag-stroke","16":"tag-torn-artery","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-vertebral-artery-dissection"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114662143798456136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}