{"id":15684,"date":"2024-12-12T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15684"},"modified":"2024-12-12T16:22:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:22:03","slug":"luigi-mangione-suffered-from-spondylolisthesis-a-back-condition-experts-say-it-can-cause-massive-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15684","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione suffered from spondylolisthesis, a back condition. Experts say it can cause &#8216;massive&#8217; pain."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Mangione never mentioned being covered by or angry with United Healthcare specifically in any social media, according to multiple reports. But Samadani, who treats patients with spondylolisthesis, notes that many insurers require patients to undergo six to 12 weeks of physical therapy before the companies will agree to cover surgery or even imaging to diagnose the condition. And for someone with severe spondylolisthesis, physical therapy can be \u201cexcruciating\u201d and won\u2019t necessarily help, she adds. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of like a torture, a mandatory torture imposed by the insurance company,\u201d Samadani says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s if they are treated at all. Samadani says she\u2019s seen multiple young patients who were initially turned away by doctors who didn\u2019t believe they could have chronic back pain. \u201cIn the case of this particular kid, my guess is that he was in massive pain,\u201d she says.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/luigi-mangione-suffered-from-spondylolisthesis-a-back-condition-experts-say-it-can-cause-massive-pain-002349224.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/luigi-mangione-suffered-from-spondylolisthesis-a-back-condition-experts-say-it-can-cause-massive-pain-002349224.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mangione never mentioned being covered by or angry with United Healthcare specifically in any social media, according to multiple reports. But Samadani, who treats patients with spondylolisthesis, notes that many insurers require patients to undergo six to 12 weeks of physical therapy before the companies will agree to cover surgery or even imaging to diagnose the condition. And for someone with severe spondylolisthesis, physical therapy can be \u201cexcruciating\u201d and won\u2019t necessarily help, she adds. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of like a torture, a mandatory torture imposed by the insurance company,\u201d Samadani says.<br \/>\nAnd that\u2019s if they are treated at all. Samadani says she\u2019s seen multiple young patients who were initially turned away by doctors who didn\u2019t believe they could have chronic back pain. \u201cIn the case of this particular kid, my guess is that he was in massive pain,\u201d she says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/luigi-mangione-suffered-from-spondylolisthesis-a-back-condition-experts-say-it-can-cause-massive-pain-002349224.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[174,81,334,80,73,972],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-assassination","tag-health","tag-health-insurance","tag-health-system","tag-healthcare","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15685,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions\/15685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}