I went in for chiropractic treatment and after four visits my conditions got worst. Can I sue this Chiropractor for malpractice?

When chiropractors commit malpractice, they can be sued, so recovery for a chiropractor-caused injury is possible. The key issue though, is whether or not the chiropractor committed malpractice. Malpractice is a failure to live up to the medical community’s accepted standards of patient care, which failure leads to injuries to the patient. A negative or bad outcome for a patient is not necessarily malpractice: success is never ensured in medicine, and sometimes the doctor or chiropractor can do everything right but the patient never recovers or even gets worse.

Of course, having a problem can get worse can certainly result from malpractice—the above is simply a warning to not assume that because you did not get better, and may even have gotten worse, that malpractice must be involved. It often takes a medical examination to determine whether something another medical professional did exacerbated a situation before a determination can be made as to whether there may have been malpractice. An experienced malpractice attorney can help evaluate your situation, to see whether it  would be worthwhile doing more investigation to see whether there was malpractice—as well as letting you know what your claim might be worth.

However, the first thing to do is to look after you health. If you think that you are experiencing greater weakness following chiropractic manipulation, you should see a doctor or go to a hospital immediately. Improperly performed manipulation can damage the nerves in the spine. There is also some evidence that chiropractic manipulation can increase the odds of a stroke, which could also account for weakness. Take care of your health first; then go speak to an attorney.