Residents across South Carolina or North Carolina who suffer from an attack of back or neck pain often travel to many cities and clinics in their quest for relief of pain symptoms. Along the way, they can receive treatments, diagnostic studies, contradictory advice and treatment that is often way too aggressive for the symptoms they display. South Carolina Spine Center recognizes the national tren
d in spine care is to take a Center of Excellence approach, with a multidisciplinary team of spine specialists working together under one roof, emphasizing nonsurgical options. Our spine center located in Greenwood includes the expertise of a fellowship-trained and board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, Dr. Karl Boellert, and three fellowship-trained spine surgeons. Fellowship-training is the highest level of medical education possible. Within the same building are spine therapists who help many patients back to activity without surgery. All the necessary diagnostic testing from x-rays to MRI, and non-operative treatment is provided at the same location. This is a welcome alternative to the typical fragmented approach to spine care, and eliminates the need for multiple referrals, delayed care, driving around town — and confusion and miscommunication among the specialists involved.
