Y Strap Neck Manipulation: Understand the risks! Neck manipulation or ‘adjustment’ has been rooted in alternative medicine for centuries. Started in medieval times, it still continues. Neck is very sensitive ‘organ’ with highly sensitive nerves, arteries, joints and spinal cord. They are so sensitive that, being a neurosurgeon, I hardly touch them during spinal cord surgeries. Imagine how someone can put a noose around our necks and pull it to eternity! Absolutely ridiculous and criminal acts in