Dr. Gary Steinberg

The manipulation of moving the bone in the soft tissues causes a tear in the wall of the artery.

And what occurs, interestingly, is that the blood that's usually in the space, the lumen, the middle of the artery, gets into the wall and causes a false lumen, a false passage.

And that...

that blood in the wall pushes part of the wall into the main artery, obstructing flow and sometimes causing a clot to form that can be dislodged and go up to the brain.

No, that's why I recommend not having, uh, neck manipulation by a chiropractor, even if it's rare.

Um, it's, it's so devastating when it occurs that, uh, personally I, I would avoid that.

That's a great question.

I would not.

That's my personal decision.

I think there are a lot of benefits to children playing football, rugby, like any sport.

It's a team sport.

A lot of good skills are learned.

Besides the – just the physicality of it, the coordination, but being a team player and the socialization.

But I think – talking about tackle football, I think –

There are still risks.

We're just learning about it.

And even high school players who many years ago were found to have multiple concussions are showing up when they're doing autopsies with some of this chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

I wanted to play football as a kid.

And I'm not that big.

I mean, I'm a big guy, but...