Upstate, SC Pain Management Doctors

“An estimated 51 million people — more than 20% of U.S. adults — have chronic pain, 17 million — almost 7% of adults — have high-impact chronic pain, and only a mere 10% of those reporting chronic pain will be pain free within a year,” according to the April 2023 U.S. Centers for Disease Control … Read more

Imagine a world where no one would believe you were pregnant until you had gone into labor. People would shrug off the morning sickness and changes to your body as normal. You would be told that gaining weight is expected as you age, and body aches and pains are something we all go through. Perhaps … Read more

You jam your finger, skin your elbow or sprain a bone or muscle, and you soon notice that your body’s defenses are doing everything they can right from the beginning to repair the damage on their own. But these defenses can help damaged tissue only so much because of age, disease, blood or injuries that … Read more

That aching knee, sore shoulder or painful elbow can be the result of a variety of different issues, and there are many ways to treat both the cause and the discomfort that can keep you up at night, limit your physical activities and affect your quality of life. Arthritis, often an affliction of the elderly, … Read more

You’ve decided that enough is enough. Perhaps you have finally reached the realization that the gnawing pain you have been dealing with for years on end isn’t going to just go away on its own. While medications are still prescribed to treat chronic pain in some cases, the good news is that you now have … Read more

By Isabel Alvarez Arata “Most injuries happen when people are compensating in some way for how their body moves,” said Jill Zimmerman, DPT, a personal trainer with more than 15 years of experience. Whether it be picking up a child or swinging a golf club, the body often compensates to achieve required movements. Pain associated … Read more

By Theresa Stratford You have tried everything at this point. You cannot sleep at night and it is affecting your quality of life. It’s pain, and it could be shoulder pain, knee pain or back pain – whatever it is that is ailing you must go. Advantage Healthcare of Charleston’s goal is to help as … Read more

Imagine walking down the hallway of a hospital ward where people are, for example, recovering post-surgery. You pass a patient room on your right and one on your left. Ten steps further, another set of rooms to the right and left. Statistically, one of those four patients in that short walk will wind up abusing … Read more

The opioid epidemic has taken its toll in South Carolina. The “Just Plain Killers” campaign, which was created by the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, released that in 2017, there were 748 deaths involving opioids in our state. That was up from 616 in 2016. State-funded treatment data showed that […]

The image of needles in health care might conjure up pictures of shots, having blood drawn, IVs and other procedures that create a bit of pain and discomfort in the name of overall health. So, for those who have never heard of dry needling, it might be hard to believe that a practice where a […]