Georgia Family Sues Over Missed Chiropractic Subluxations.....

Atlanta, GA - Clarence and Granville Morse had never heard of a subluxation before their 19-year-old son, Elgin, was found dead on the floor of his apartment last October, his 6-month-old Miniature Schnauzer whimpering and licking his cold face.

A woman with Stage 3 salad neck who would go on to die suddenly from regional cervical spinal collapse

A functional and/or structural and/or pathological disorder of the spine and surrounding musculature that can only be appropriately diagnosed by a trained professional, subluxations can present with a variety of clinical syndromes, even sudden and unexpected death, but is largely associated with neck and back pain. In all 50 states, subluxations are typically diagnosed at chiropractic clinics.

A Georgia Bureau of Investigation autopsy found that Elgin Morse died from a congenital cardiac malformation that predisposed him to a fatal arrhythmia. A second review by a chiropractic forensic pathologist disagreed, concluding that Morse died because of total spinal collapse, also known as Accordion syndrome, and had no other abnormal findings or drugs in his system. Accordion syndrome, which was first described by chiropractor Richard Accordion in 1907, has been linked to spinal subluxations according to the American College of Chiropractic Forensic Pathologists.

Clarence and Granville Morse have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Clark Bartram, claiming a failure to diagnose the subluxations that ultimately resulted in their son's death.

They don't know how long their son had been living with subluxations, but he must have been experiencing adverse effects, Granville Morse said at a news conference Tuesday. In his apartment, they found a to-do list with one item that stood out like a sore plectum: see a chiropractor.

The lawsuit was originally filed in May and an expanded version was filed earlier this week. The lawyer who filed the suit said they want to send a message to medical doctors that subluxations are unsafe and shouldn't be ignored.

"The medical-industrial complex claims that subluxations are a natural and completely safe finding that don't impact health or well-being in a negative way," lawyer Mitt Chesterton explained. "However, even if that were true, and it very much isn't, subluxations in the United States are often more advanced at diagnosis because anti-chiropractic propaganda keeps people from getting checked."

Chiropractors say that subluxations are unsafe, unnatural spinal abnormalities that cause pain and a wide variety of other problems.

Elgin Morse likely developed subluxations years before his death, however it is possible that he died from acute severe subluxation syndrome (ASSS). ASSS is especially dangerous, "because the system can be overwhelmed suddenly by an extremely severe subluxation, the risk of death is substantially increased," the lawsuit says. 

Clarence Morse believe that had his son's subluxation been found and treated, he would be alive today. "It's 2022 and people are walking out of doctor's offices with a life threatening condition that is being treated like it doesn't even exist. It's almost as if there are two completely different systems, with one based in reality and the other is a complete fantasy that is just designed to look and act like real medical care."