However, health experts generally caution against using any massage gun on the neck, as it could cause soft tissue damage or even stroke-like symptoms. Justin Neira, a neurological spine surgeon, told ...

When Canadian high-school maths teacher Ann suffered a brainstem stroke at the age of 30 that left her severely paralysed, she lost entire muscular control and couldn’t even breathe unassisted.

with strokes from high-velocity neck manipulations. So that’s like when a chiropractor or someone twists your neck really quickly … that can tear the arteries that supply the brain stem ...