The Cause of her death – neck cracking?
Assistant Coroner Leila Benyounes concluded that Kowalczyk’s death resulted from complications arising from “chiropractic treatment following a naturally occurring medical event.” The coroner recommended that the General Chiropractic Council implement guidelines requiring chiropractors to review patients’ medical histories before administering any treatment.
The report was sent to both the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) and the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS), with a deadline for their responses set for April 25. At the time of her death, “the ambulance service found that there was a failure in communications made by the paramedic crew on 10/17/21,” but Benyounes wrote that “this did not cause or contribute to the death.”