They took down the gofundme. He’s got a bit of an online footprint that’s being actively picked over. Apparently, he got picked up in Pennsylvania, for “being weird”, presumably from staying awake most of the last week. . So far he has not said anything. Whatever manifesto they got him with has not made the rounds, and frankly I’m not overly enthused about getting ahold of it, but yeah., If I have an excess of time and money in the coming seasons . We’ll be hearing from him and helping Mr. Mangione out.
Like I said, extensive online footprint that is being picked over as we speak. I saw a LinkedIn profile that has since been deleted, but of course it was screenshot. People disappear in a lot of the important ways when they go to prison, but we’ll do what we can.
Anecdotal, but I know someone who has back problems and goes to a back quacker once a week and it does help him.
Would I go to one? Probably not, I would rather have someone walk on my back to pop those hard to crack spots, like the upper back, instead of risk internal decapitation because some jackass got a certificate online.
My understanding is that some chiropractors have adapted to methods that will actually help people and reconciled chiropractics with what they've found works, but the theory behind chiropractics is still fundamentally pseudo science. Like if you go look it up it's genuinely ridiculous and makes no sense.
If someone is debating going to a chiropractor they'd almost certainly be at least as well served by going to a physical therapist instead.
That being said, the financial experience and experience of being cared for might be a meaningful difference between the two, I'm not sure. My impression is that a lot of pseudoscientific medical interventions have draw because they often treat people like human beings in a way that our medical system is dystinctly bad at.
Ultimately, I'm glad your friend is getting what they need, regardless of where they're getting it :) people deserve access to meaningful help with the problems affecting their lives
I've had friends suggest a chiropractor when I slipped a disc in my neck around 2010. I had doctors suggest a physical therapist for the same issue.
The doctors told me to go outside and look up and to the right to find the physical therapy office. Well, I literally couldn't look neither up nor to the right. Like they gave a shit, they couldn't even be bothered to take me to the elevator to the physical therapy department!
I said fuck all that shit and drove back home, and suffered for another 5 weeks or so, until I finally got a sense of my own pains to just take care of it myself.
I ended up rolling my pillow up tighter than a Cuban cigar and laying it strategically under my neck while I slept, to induce something of a homemade 'traction' plus a somewhat comfortable curve on my neck, to relax the slipped disc.
And sure enough it actually worked! By the next day, I woke up and my pinched nerve was gone! My neck muscles were still sore though, so I took it real easy for the next week or so.
TL;DR - They don't give a shit about you, unless you can make it rain money. And speaking of money, I'll never pay a medical bill where doctors neglected me or caused me more harm.
I ain't about to condone what the dude did, whether it's actually him or not, but I'm not mad about it either. Fuckem.
You couldnt figure out how to get on an elevator without an escort but you were able to get to your car and drive home?
They litetally escorted me out of the hospital, the elevators were restricted to authorized personnel and accepted patients.
They looked at my X-rays and claimed they didn't see anything wrong (except likely the fact I didn't have insurance), so they didn't admit me as a formal accepted patient.
Healthcare in the USA for ya...
At least I managed to slip that damn disc back in place on my own, it only rarely mildly bothers me when it gets cold or happen to sleep wrong or something.
Edit: Driving was no problem, I had practically no problem looking side to side, I just couldn't look up, or hardly sleep unless I was sitting up in a recliner.
Look for the chiros that are trained as physios. Mine is American where the regs are looser, but he's trained physio first so he's fantastic on the exercises and maintenance regime. I'm going on 33 years from a slip n fall that changed my life during a very dramatic few years, and motion means everything.
It's fun how I tell a true story and offer advice, and those are the ones brigaded to hell.
I'm happy you found a provider that's giving you the help you need!
Going to get weekly adjustments isn’t a solution, it’s somebody taking your money.
His insurance pays for it and the alternative is major surgery that is expensive that will likely result in needing another surgery to fuse a few vertebrae which will make his job harder and likely result in him still having back pain. So the "solution" will be a net negative.