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 […]
Pain Management
What is Prolotherapy?
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 […]
Joint Pain Remedies
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 […]
You Don’t Have to Live With Pain (CCMS)
By Theresa Stratford 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 […]
Don’t Let Pain Stop You
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 […]
Living Life Pain Free
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 […]
There’s Treatment for Opioid Addiction
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 […]
Atlantic Coast Physical Medicine’s Advice on Alternative Pain Remedies
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 […]
Dry Needling for Pain Relief at CORA PT
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 […]
A Game Plan for Back Pain
More than 80 percent of all Americans will experience low back pain at some point during their lifetime. According to Crow and Willis, the economic impact of low back pain in the United States is estimated at $240 billion annually in terms of treatment costs, lost wages and lost productivity. Two common classifications of low […]
How Acupuncture and Chiropractic Care Helps Reduce Pain
Everything You need to Know About Acupuncture and Chiropractic Care for Pain Management Pain has a purpose. But even though we know that pain can be a good thing because it lets us know when something is going wrong with our health, it’s hard to embrace something that, well, hurts – especially if it persists […]