Posted on 05/29/2022 9:20:29 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
A Pennsylvania man who sought treatment for jaw pain, killed his chiropractor by fracturing his skull and hitting him in the jaw with a blunt object.
Joseph O’Boyle, 23, blamed his chiropractor Dr. James Sowa, 64, for worsening his jaw pain, according to his family.
Surveillance video from November 2020 shows O’Boyle arriving to Dr. Sowa’s office on the day of the murder and fleeing the scene one minute later.
One week after the murder, law enforcement served O’Boyle a search warrant at his home and that’s when he lunged at a detective a repeatedly punched him in the head.
Fox News reported:
A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty to criminal homicide and other charges on Friday for murdering a chiropractor in November 2020.
Joseph O’Boyle, 23, will be sentenced in the coming months for criminal homicide, criminal trespassing, and possession of an instrument of crime. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault, as well as recklessly endangering another person, resisting arrest and simple assault, for punching a detective who was investigating the chiropractor’s murder.
Dr. James Sowa, 64, was found dead inside his home and chiropractic office on Nov. 2 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, a town about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia.
O’Boyle had been a patient of Sowa’s two months earlier and blamed the chiropractor for worsening his jaw pain, according to his relatives
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If he’s given the death sentence he’ll be on death row for 40 or 50 years at our expense. ~$1.00 for a round would be far better.
Heh, that's funny right there. That said, this guy needs to be put to sleep. That may not cure his ills, but it will help cure ours.
The only relief I ever got from a chiropractor was from the money making my wallet swell.
They claim to work on the whole body. I always left in more pain when they try to adjust me. Only one chiropractor ever helped me and he massaged muscle spasms in my upper back that were causing my neck to lock up. I went to him 25 years ago and I’m still good til this day.
The overarching point is: there are good Chiropractics and bad ones. Not every condition is amenable to treatment with chiropractic methods, the same way a surgeon's scalpel isn't the appropriate treatment for everything. Some surgeons and medical personnel don't know this, in the same way some chiropractors may not know it. It is unfair in most cases to paint an entire field with a broad brush.
Chiropractic saved my quality of life. Not kidding. This is my Chiropractic story.
I hurt my back playing football in high school. I was 160 lbs as a defensive back, and found myself running at top speed towards a running back who weighed at least 30 lbs more than I did, and who was running at top speed towards me.
I was big into the concept of leverage, and thought I could stop anyone, no matter the size. The running back had the same idea of leverage in the act of plowing over someone.
When we collided, we were both traveling fast, and practicing optimal leverage, and it became a simple equation of mass, and I lost...the guy completely wrecked me.
In my mind, my back must have compressed an inch or two. I could barely walk, but as practice ended, we were all ordered to run five laps. I was gritting my teeth and sweating, but I wasn't going to stop, even though everyone had finished five minutes earlier and was completely back in the clubhouse getting changed, I still had several laps to go.
The coach came over and told me I didn't have to finish the laps.
Eventually the pain dulled, but I couldn't play anymore. I joined the Navy, and even though I did have back pain, it wasn't debilitating.
However, after I got out, within a year, I began to have serious problems, to the point I was playing on a company softball team and collapsed after the game, unable to walk. I had a bunch of guys pick me up and put me bodily in my car. My best friend thought I had polio or something. I couldn't get out of bed for three or four days, went to a doctor, got pain pills and physical therapy, but...nothing worked. That first time, I couldn't get out of bed, and had to use a bed pan.
For the next ten years or so, each year my back would "go out on me" two or three times a year. It would be so acute that I would be laid up for two or three days, then improves slowly for about a month, and I would have a couple of months of diminished pain and workable movement until the next onset. In college, I could miss a few days, but when I graduated and began working, I had to go in due to the nature of my job. Missing work was not an option.
So I would drive in, park the car, and do the "Tim Conway Shuffle" through the front door and hospital lobby all the way into my department. I literally was able to only put one foot about six inches in front of the other, gritting my teeth in pain and sweating the entire time.
One day, I went in to see one of my patients, and she looked at me with horror when I walked in and exclaimed "Oh, my God. I saw you walk in the front entrance to the hospital, and I thought you were a patient!"
This went on for years. I also played hockey and softball, but was in pretty much constant pain with forays into episodes of debilitating and incapacitating pain.
When I got married, my wife watched this cycle of pain with concern, and one day as lay on my back, unable to get up, she knew I had run the gamut of what traditional medicine could offer and it didn't work, so she suggested I try acupuncture or chiropractic.
Out of sheer desperation, I tried chiropractic. It worked. It actually worked.
I began going three times a week, sometimes even four or five, using stimulation with electrodes, machines that stretch your back, ice, and mechanical adjustment. But the amazing thing was...over time, I had short periods, beginning as I left the appointment after adjustment, where my pain level was low or even gone, and I could stand up straight. I dropped down to twice a week (timing my visits for the day after I had a hockey game) and then...once a week.
The periods of incapacitation where I couldn't walk went away, and though I got acute pain that restricted my life and made sleep difficult, it was nothing like those acute episodes I suffered for years.
About four years ago, I began to experience real, serious back pain again. It got to the point where for several weeks I was in constant severe pain, I was gritting my teeth all the time, and had sweat running down my head. When I went in this time, they did an MRI, and found that I had a protruding disk that two vertebrae were squeezing a piece of the the disk to the point a large chunk was getting chopped off by the two vertebrae squeezing together. They said they preferred not to operate, but did get me set for an injection in the back to kill the pain.
Unbelievable. For the first in forty five years, my back felt-normal! Pain free. It was like walking on a cloud. It lasted for three months, but I understand you can't get those shots all the time. Eventually, that piece of a disk did break off and was re-absorbed over time by my body.
Point is-Chiropractic saved me. Those 30 years, if I had not had chiropractic, I would have lost so much. Chiropractic enabled me to lead a normal life. I now go about once a month, though I am mostly sedentary now. No sports of any kind for me.
But in those years, I had all kinds of appointments with specialists, pain clinics, back clinics, physical therapy, with pain killers added in, to no avail. Nothing helped.
Nothing but Chiropractic. It isn't for all conditions. It isn't for everything. There are some things that I have no doubt it is completely ineffective against. And I have no doubt there are bad chiropractors out there who have hurt people.
But there are doctors, teachers, lawyers, and dentists who, through incompetence, have done the same. It isn't fair to paint them all with the same brush.
Chiropractors can treat many areas of the body besides the back. I have had my shoulder, elbow, wrist, and knee treated over the years. Note that in all those cases, I had mixed results, which after a session or two with no resolution, have with the active encouragement of my chiropractor) sought out medical care and ended up having surgery in three out of those four cases.
Chiropractic isn’t for all things, but it isn’t just for the back, either.
Yes. My chiropractor was a respiratory therapist before he went back to school for Chiropractic, so he (like I) understands the nexus between traditional medical care and chiropractic.
He takes X-rays when warranted, and always does a thorough examination when I have a new symptom.
And the other medical publications have never had a similar article ?
I would think that the article was about having PT aka Customer quantity increase aka Income, just like any other business.
The DC that I currently use is only Open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and half a day Thursday. There’s always a full waiting area and PT turn around is 10 - 20 minutes with New PT between 30 - 45 minutes. He’s married to a DC and both Families go back 5 Generations in the Practice. He also does Sports Medicine with PT’s from the local Little League up to the Carolina Panthers Football Team and many NASCAR Drivers from All 3 of the Top Ranks: Cup/Busch (xfinity) and Trucks as well as the Local Series as well.
The DC that I used to work for has retired after 55 years in practice (He’s going on 80 years old.)
The same as any Auto Repair Shop, Hardware Store, Grocery Store, Restaurant, Plastic Surgeon, Vets Office or Business wants/needs and desire.
I’m glad they helped you.
I was born with a some spine issues, but it never really bothered me until my 30s, when two accidents put it over the edge.
I happened to know a chiropractor personally, and that caused me to look into them. They did a world of good for me. I’ve been sad that all the ones I first used retired or ‘moved on’, and started to feel that only the older guys really knew their stuff. Then I found a young Korean man who is also wonderful.
The good ones are out there. A lot of them are well-versed in nutrition, too, and can help in lots of ways.
After a certain age, I told them I didn’t want the neck adjustment anymore. They shouldn’t keep doing something if you say no.
But I don’t know what I would have done without them, for my lower back issues, especially.
Good for you!
I used to ride and race off road motorcycles and once had a particularly nasty departure from the bike in the form of a forward flip where my arms pulled out of the shoulders and tweeked my neck to boot. After my buddies, with their feet pushing against my ribs and yanking my arms, got my shoulders and arms somewhat back together I finished the ride.
Back at work my head ached from my neck up the back of my head and my right shoulder throbbed. I found that if I leaned forward to the parts counter (motorcycle dealership) with my right elbow on the counter and my chin in that hand the pain was all gone. Seemed like a neck alignment problem or similar to me, so off to my brother’s chiropractor.
He readily agreed with my theory, after x-rays and such, started treatment.
After two months of twice a week at $25 per visit (long time ago...1985) I felt as though I was not healing any faster than I usually do. Remember I rode dirt bikes and fairly regularly managed minor injuries. I stopped going because that $200 per month was my spending money and I was dating then. No dates sorta messed up my plans of finding me a wife. I started dating Mrs BCC shortly after that.
I could have paid for a house after paying several chiropractors trying to relieve Mrs. BCC’s premenstrual head aches for YEARS! And that was after all kinds of medical tests and evaluations.
Eventually, because of a prolapsed uterus, she had a hysterectomy and BOOM! no more head aches.It was a hormonal thing.
We still rent.
Good Gosh! It sounded like when you had your accident, your mates were pushing and pulling everything in an attempt to deform you back into shape! I had this mental vision of being drawn and quartered!
As I (and my chiropractor) would readily agree, Chiropractic is not a panacea in every way, that is for sure.
You are wrong on this.
I speak from having been inside the medical community for going on four decades so from my perspective and being well versed in the treatments and regimens for traditional back pain both from being part of the regimens, and being a subject of them.
I exhausted all traditional medical avenues with drugs, physical therapy, braces and such, and I fully expected to be subjected to something like a spinal fusion someday.
As I said before-anyone (including any chiropractor) who states that chiropractic is a cure-all is indeed a quack.
Competent chiropractors (as mine is) see themselves as a component in the spectrum of treatment, and know full well (usually before any adjustments are attempted) when traditional medicine should be engaged.
Not true
“Chiropractic is not a panacea in every way, that is for sure.”
Far too many Docs of all persuasions don’t diagnose all that well.
In the motorcycle business you see the same thing. You have real old school mechanics who can diagnose and repair then you have late model MMI technicians who can mostly change parts and oil OK.
Sigh. It is true in nearly all walks of life: Some are Excellent, some are competent, and...some are just...bad or incompetent.
One week after the murder, law enforcement served O’Boyle a search warrant at his home and that’s when he lunged at a detective a repeatedly punched him in the head.
They adjust other joints, too.
Or both. :^)
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