Accidents are just a part of life. They can happen at work, home, or even on the road. And when accidents happen, injuries often follow. According to the CDC, the number of injury-related visits to the ER was more than 38 million in 2020. But not all injuries require the same treatment. Minor sprains and bruises can often be treated at home with rest, ice, and elevation. Other, more serious injuries necessitate ongoing care like sports rehab and physical therapy. As a combination of physical exercises and education, physical therapy in Folly Beach, SC, has incredible benefits for those who are injured or in constant pain. For many patients and pain sufferers, physical therapy is the key to a pain-free life - one without constant worry and debilitating pain, where joints and muscles don't ache, and everyday activities are easy to accomplish.
That's where Back 2 Health Physical Medicine comes into play: to help you rediscover the lifestyle you used to love.
Physical therapy centers around correcting impairments to your body's muscles, nerves, and even your brain. When you tear a muscle or break a major bone in your body, it's crucial to maintain careful stretching and training as your injury heals. However, trying to handle physical therapy on your own is quite risky. At Back 2 Health Physical Medicine, our team uses multiple diagnostic tools to monitor your injuries as you heal to ensure your treatment is helping to heal your body, not damage it further.
We help many different types of patients recover, from teen and adult athletes who play competitive sports to older adults and seniors who are retired. Our doctors and physical therapists find that immediate care often helps prevent minor issues, like sprains, from developing into serious problems. That's especially true if we can find a misalignment or weakness that led to the injury, to begin with.
When an injury takes you out of the game or affects your daily life, seeking physical therapy can get you back to normal as quickly as possible, without risking further damage. And that's the beauty of physical therapy from Back 2 Health.
Patients rely on our trained physical therapists to help them work through a myriad of issues, such as:
Unlike other physical rehab centers, however, we provide more than just physical therapy. Instead of focusing on one pain-relieving discipline, our team utilizes physical therapy along with medical therapeutics and research-backed solutions to give patients a multi-discipline approach to healing. We don't just have one or two physical therapists at your service - we have an entire team dedicated to your recovery, including:
At Back 2 Health, we believe the very best results are achieved by giving patients personalized treatment and access to a comprehensive list of rehab services. Our doctors and physical therapists do more than treat pain - we treat patients. Our goal is to completely restore the quality of life you deserve. We accomplish that goal by using all our resources to treat your pain, from the bottoms of your feet to tips of your triceps and everything in between.
And with decades of combined experience, we understand that no two patients or their injuries are exactly the same. The causes of back pain, foot pain, arthritis pain, and other types of pain are broad and change from patient to patient. The treatment of those conditions, then, must also have a broad range of pain treatment tools.
That's why, when you trust Back 2 Health Physical Medicine, you can rest easy knowing your treatment plan is crafted for you and your body - not someone within your age and weight range.
Our team treats a wide range of conditions, including:
By taking a focused approach to physical therapy, we can better understand your needs and the conditions causing your pain. Whether you're suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome or sciatica, our doctors and therapists have the tools and training to provide relief. And we keep doing it until you're back on your feet and back to your life.
And that, in a nutshell, is what separates Back 2 Heath from the rest of the pack: nuanced medical and physical therapy in Folly Beach, SC, that helps you rediscover what healthy, pain-free living is all about. During rehab, our therapists may use resources like massage therapy, chiropractic care, and even medical injections for a more well-rounded approach to your recovery.
Many of the patients we see who are injured report that conventional methods like pain meds and surgery don't really solve their pain problems - they just mask them. When you throw in the risks associated with surgery and pain meds, alternatives like chiropractic care make a lot of sense. If you're looking for a safe, non-invasive treatment, combining the benefits of physical therapy with chiropractic adjustments is a great option for pain relief and overall well-being.
At Back 2 Health, our chiropractic physicians diagnose and treat patients with health problems associated with the body's muscular, nervous, and skeletal systems.
As the saying goes, a healthy spine equals a healthy person.
Just about every type of chiropractic care revolves around your spine. When your vertebrae are misaligned, the nerves surrounding them become compressed, resulting in pain. When a chiropractor restores your spine's natural alignment, it reduces your pain and other medical symptoms. To achieve pain relief, Back 2 Health chiropractors use focused pressure to restore healthy vertebrae motion and loosen frozen joints. This process allows the nerves along your spine to properly function and carry messages to and from your brain.
There are many benefits of using chiropractic care alongside physical therapy in Folly Beach, SC, and other solutions like massage therapy. Some of the most common benefits of chiropractic care include:
Sitting in one spot for hours or frequently bending at work can cause horrendous neck pain. Whether from work or a car accident, our chiropractors ease that pain by realigning your spine, which reduces the tension on your neck.
The American College of Physicians says that doctors should recommend non-medical treatments for back pain prior to surgery. Chiropractic care helps tremendously in this regard, correcting subluxations through techniques like spinal decompression.
If you suffer from tension headaches that start in your upper spine or neck, chiropractic care may be the solution you need for relief.
Unfortunately, many people with back pain become addicted to pain meds like opiates. However, a study by the NIH found that adults who visited a chiropractor weren't as likely to receive an opioid prescription for pain when compared to those who only visited a medical doctor.
Our team of chiropractic doctors excels at finding and analyzing improper vertebrae placement. Once those areas are discovered, they use advanced techniques to correct subluxations, returning your body to its proper alignment. This strategy is key in correcting vertebral subluxation complex, which can affect your long-term health and how your body functions.
Like other practitioners, our chiropractors follow common standards and procedures to diagnose and treat you with chiropractic care. On your first visit, we'll get your medical history, conduct physical, orthopedic, and neurological examinations, and may order lab tests for further info. We may also use X-rays and other essential tools to focus on your spine and its proper function.
If needed, our chiropractors may conduct a postural and spinal analysis to discover if vertebral dysfunction is affecting your nervous system or causing a skeletal imbalance, which lowers disease resistance and causes additional pain.
Massage has been used for thousands of years to promote relaxation and relieve pain. And while most people think of getting a massage as a treat, purposeful massage therapy demonstrates an incredible ability to heal and restore overall wellness. In fact, modern applications have been proven to be very effective when used to supplement physical therapy. A complete review by the Institute of Work and Health found that massage had measurable effects vs. placebo treatments. That's excellent news for patients who need physical therapy to help heal injuries.
The benefits of massage therapy for issues like back pain and shoulder pain are numerous and include the following:
Deep Tissue Massage
Myofascial Release
Neuromuscular Therapy
Sports Massage
If you're suffering from a long-term condition like neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, or arm pain, massage therapy could be a great option to consider. Though massage can't always solve issues like inflammation, it can help relieve painful symptoms and works very well when used as part of the multi-discipline approach at Back 2 Health Physical Medicine.
Massage can help treat many conditions, such as:
If we're being honest, few people look forward to a medical procedure that involves needles. But the proper injection may reduce or even eliminate joint, nerve, muscle, or spinal pain plaguing you for years, all within a few hours. At Back 2 Health, we combine medical injections for immediate relief with other treatments like physical therapy in Folly Beach, SC, that repair factors causing inflammation in your body, providing permanent results.
In many cases, inflammation is a good thing - it helps heal injuries and subsides when the healing process is finished. In many cases, however, inflammation doesn't go away. It actually becomes counterproductive, causing severe pain, swelling, restricted movement, and even structural damage that prevents normal bodily function.
Joint and inflammation injections from Back 2 Health help relieve pain and inflammation by reducing blood flow and limiting immune system cells at the affected joint. These injections typically contain a corticosteroid and an anesthetic. The corticosteroid helps with inflammation by limiting blood vessel dilation, while the anesthetic helps with immediate relief of pain.
Generally, joint and inflammation injections can serve two purposes: for pain relief and for diagnostic purposes. As a diagnostic tool, these injections can help our doctors identify the source of pain you're enduring. As a pain reliever, injections help reduce inflammation around the affected joint, providing localized pain relief with few, if any, side effects.
Patients who qualify for medical injections from Back 2 Health enjoy a number of short and long-term benefits, including:
Patients at Back 2 Health Physical Medicine use joint and inflammation injections for a variety of conditions, such as:
If you're looking for a truly personalized, complete approach to physical therapy and pain relief, contact Back 2 Health Physical Medicine today. As a team, we analyze every new patient's case and craft a customized medical treatment plan tailored to their needs. But unlike other "pain" clinics, we don't rely on one form of therapy.
Our doctors and specialists use massage therapy, chiropractic therapy, medical injections, and other treatments to give you long-term relief - not a short-term "band-aid" that only lasts for a few days. If surgery and opiates are off the table, contact our office to learn more about the Back 2 Health physical therapy difference.
FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCSC) - Miles of the Folly Beach shoreline have been restored months after strong storms peeled back portions of the beachfront.“If you were here in May, and you’re here today, you probably notice a big difference. If it’s your first time, you probably walk out and say, ‘Wow, that is a beautiful beach,’” Folly Beach Mayor Tim Goodwin says.“On an undernourished beach, like the one we had months ago, water was going past the dunes, onto the streets for a normal high tid...
FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCSC) - Miles of the Folly Beach shoreline have been restored months after strong storms peeled back portions of the beachfront.
“If you were here in May, and you’re here today, you probably notice a big difference. If it’s your first time, you probably walk out and say, ‘Wow, that is a beautiful beach,’” Folly Beach Mayor Tim Goodwin says.
“On an undernourished beach, like the one we had months ago, water was going past the dunes, onto the streets for a normal high tide or king tide. For a renourished beach, you won’t see the same impacts,” Army Corps of Engineers Project Manager Wes Wilson says.
The renourishment also dredged the Folly River to reduce shoaling. It placed materials on the Bird Key sanctuary habitat. The project overall cost a total of $22 million to complete.
Projects like this one are typically done before peak hurricane season begins. It is believed to help preserve the shoreline and even out eroded areas. This project, which started in the Spring, was prompted by the effects of Hurricane Ian.
“We don’t get the replenishment of sand as it moves down the coast because the jetties stop them on the other side of the harbor. Every few years we have to renourish more often than a lot of other folks,” Goodwin says.
The Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Folly Beach recently updated their contract to ensure the continuation of renourishment and preservation efforts on Folly Beach for the next half-century.
“That 50-year partnership will create a new design template that is more dunes-centric. Again with berm, higher dunes, still a berm. The dunes provide that higher level of risk reduction so that’s a better template, a bigger bang for your buck,” Wilson says.
The new plan also adds in wood panel fencing, which is used to hold the sand in its place and act as a barrier.
Goodwin says the timing is perfect after a few recent “near misses” and some storm surges on their way in.
“It can disappear as fast as it comes, faster than it comes actually. With the right winds, waves, Nor’easters, hurricanes,” Goodwin says. “That empty feeling in the pit of your stomach, knowing you did that work, but if the storm doesn’t move further out, you did it for nothing.”
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Tripadvisor released its 2024 Travelers’ Choice Awards and Lost Dog Cafe in Folly Beach, South Carolina was named on its list of Best of the Best Pet-Friendly Restaurants in the United States.Every year, Tripadvisor analyzes the number of reviews and quality of ratings to rank the best accommodations, destinations, beaches, restaurants...
Tripadvisor released its 2024 Travelers’ Choice Awards and Lost Dog Cafe in Folly Beach, South Carolina was named on its list of Best of the Best Pet-Friendly Restaurants in the United States.
Every year, Tripadvisor analyzes the number of reviews and quality of ratings to rank the best accommodations, destinations, beaches, restaurants and things to do. The Best of the Best designations, like Lost Dog Cafe, are awarded among the top one percent of Tripadvisor listings.
Coming in as the ninth-best pet-friendly restaurant in the country, Lost Dog Cafe has earned a 4.5/5 rating with more than 1,800 reviews. The restaurant is also ranked as the best restaurant in Folly Beach, according to Tripadvisor.
“Set in a converted laundromat, Lost Dog Café is to Folly Beach like biscuits are to gravy,” Tripadvisor writes. “It’s a laid-back spot with outdoor seating where humans and their four-legged friends are welcomed with open arms.”
Open from 6:30 am to 3:00 pm Monday through Saturday and 6:30 am to 2:00 pm Sunday, the local favorite is a popular spot for breakfast, brunch and lunch. Tripadvisor reviewers rave about dishes like the eggs benedict, breakfast burrito, French toast and more.
While Lost Dog Cafe was the only South Carolina spot to make the list, Tripadvisor ranked 14 other pet-friendly favorites. Here are the winners.
1. La Fuga
2900 Riomar St., Fort Lauderdale, FL
901 Lake Shore Blvd., Tavares, FL
Rating: 4.5/5 with 895 reviews
610 Greene St., Key West, FL
Rating: 4.5/5 with 975 reviews
4. Seaside Cafe at the Mansion
1400 Duval St., Key West, FL
Rating: 5/5 with 1,864 reviews
264 Main St., Lincoln, NH
Rating: 4.5/5 with 2,021 reviews
6. No Goodbyes
1770 Euclid St. NW, Washington D.C.
699 Ave. of the Palms Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA
204 Pine Mountain Road, Pigeon Forge, TN
Rating: 4.5/5 with 346 ratings
106 W Huron Ave., Folly Beach, SC
Rating: 4.5/5 with 1,824 reviews
976 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN
Rating: 4/5 with 1,520 ratings
725 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs, CO
Rating: 4.5/5 with 742 reviews
12. Jacobs Brewhouse and Grocer
79 Sherman St., Deadwood, SD
Rating: 4.5/5 with 140 reviews
13. Cafe Genevieve
135 E Broadway Ave., Jackson, WY
4095 Burton Drive, Cambria, CA
Rating: 4.5/5 with 1,917 reviews
15. Big Slide Brewery and Public House
5686 Cascade Road, Lake Placid, NY
Rating: 4.5/5 with 415 reviews
This story was originally published October 3, 2024, 6:00 AM.