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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sheila Flynn

My daughter went for a routine chiropractor appointment. Now she’s paralysed

Facebook/Darlene Jensen

Darlene Jensen was texting with her 28-year-old daughter, Caitlin, on an uneventful Thursday morning in June as the recent college graduate headed in for a routine neck adjustment at a chiropractor appointment she’d nearly cancelled.

Caitlin read her mother’s last text at 9am. Twenty one minutes later, Ms Jensen got a call: her daughter was having a reaction to the treatment, the chiropractor said.

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