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What is Plantar Fasciitis?

This common foot issue happens when the plantar fascia - a fan-shaped tissue near your heel - gets inflamed. The plantar fascia is a thick strip of connective tissue that links your toes to your heel bone, helping to preserve the arch of your foot. When this band is strained, it causes intensely sharp pain, usually in the morning when you wake up and plant your feet on the floor.

Most folks ignore plantar fasciitis because the pain eventually goes away throughout the day. However, if left untreated, plantar fasciitis can lead to weakness and chronic pain, which may affect daily walking.

Some causes of plantar fasciitis include:

  • Playing Sports
  • Standing or Working on Feet for Long Periods of Time
  • Working or Exercising on Hard Floor Surfaces
  • Exercising Without Stretching
  • Wearing Shoes with Minimal Foot Support
  • Long Periods of Standing or Walking Barefoot

Do Traditional Treatment Options Work?

The short answer to this question is not really. Patients with plantar fasciitis will ice the affected area with little-to-no relief since they spend so much time on their feet. It's hard to rest an achy heel if you've got a job that requires you to be on your feet. Anti-inflammatory meds like Advil don't work all that well, either. They may provide temporary pain relief, but in terms of a long-term solution, taking these drugs will cause major side effects.

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What Causes Knee Pain?

If you're an active person or somebody who plays sports often, you're probably all too familiar with knee pain - especially common conditions like patellar tendinopathy. Also called "jumpers knee," this issue happens at the patellar tendon, which is found on the front of the knee just under the knee cap. When living with this condition, most patients experience pain around the kneecap or lower down on the leg around the tibia.

In addition to injuries and issues like jumper's knee, everyday wear and tear will cause knee pain over time. With time, this knee pain can develop into arthritis. If your knees are swollen, painful, or stiff, you may have arthritis in your knees. Regardless of the kind of knee pain you're experiencing, treatment options have been limited to agonizing surgeries and addicting pain medications. But that all changes with shockwave therapy for knee pain in James Island, SC.

Does Shockwave Therapy for Knee Pain Really Work?

Several studies and reviews prove that Softwave therapy can be very beneficial for people suffering from knee pain problems like jumper's knee. A study involving 66 patients with knee pain found that they enjoyed a significant improvement in their reported pain levels with Softwave therapy. In fact, knee pain was reduced by nearly 50% after a single month. When combined with other regenerative and physical therapy treatments at Elite Healthcare Physical Medicine, your days of living with knee pain are numbered.

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What Causes Shoulder Pain?

There are many causes of shoulder pain, like deterioration, inflammation, and trauma. Of the many painful shoulder conditions affecting Americans yearly, rotator cuff tendonitis and arthritis are very common. Also called calcific tendinitis, rotator cuff pain is caused by built-up calcium deposits on the shoulder's tendons, which connect your rotator cuff to nearby muscles and bones. This painful condition is usually linked to sports, like basketball and volleyball, or in professions requiring repetitive movements, like in the plumbing industry.

Some common symptoms of shoulder pain and rotator cuff tendinitis include:

  • Swelling
  • Weakness of the Arm
  • Limited Range of Motion
  • Shoulder Stiffness or Tenderness
  • Disturbed Sleep
  • Dull, Achy Pain

Though strengthening exercises and some medications provide temporary relief for shoulder pain, they're not meant as long-term solutions. Luckily, Softwave therapy for rotator cuff pain in James Island, SC, can help.

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How Does Shockwave Therapy Heal Shoulder Pain?

Shockwave therapy has been shown to work wonders for shoulder pain. Low-intensity shockwaves break up calcium deposits and jumpstart your body's healing processes, stimulating blood flow and healthy cell growth. Shockwave treatment is especially effective for long-term shoulder pain since it releases stem cells, sends growth factors to the affected area, and boosts capillary production. Shockwave therapy has also been shown to break down scar tissue and eliminate trigger points, all of which decrease shoulder pain. This relief is most often long-lasting, unlike other treatments like medications and injections.

Live a Pain-Free Life with Softwave Therapy from Elite Healthcare Physical Medicine

Whether you're sick of living with intense heel pain from plantar fasciitis, the mobility issues associated with knee pain, or the day-to-day struggles of rotator cuff degeneration, you'll find hope at Elite Healthcare Physical Medicine. Unlike some medical clinics, our team of doctors and specialists focus on an integrative, multidisciplinary approach to healing. Instead of relying on addictive medications and invasive surgeries, we prefer to address the underlying causes that our patients face.

We combine several all-natural pain relief therapies so that your shoulder pain, knee pain, joint pain, and foot pain go away for good. We resolve pain by using healing treatments that restore function and improve mobility for the long term. Our state-of-the-art regenerative medicine treatments, used hand-in-hand with proven chiropractic techniques, will stimulate your body's healing power from within. If your pain is related to muscles, nerves, and bones, our doctors can help you overcome discomfort, injury, or medical conditions affecting these systems.

If you've been unable to resolve your pain or have become dependent on painkillers to cope, Softwave therapy may be the natural solution you need. It all starts with a quick call to our office, so we can begin to understand your needs. When you come for your first visit, our doctors will find the personalized treatment you need so that you can manage your pain in a non-invasive and drug-free environment manner.

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Application for recreational development on James Island met with mixed reviews

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The City of Charleston is looking at the application of a potential new development off Folly Road that would include a mini golf course and a new retail center.In addition to the mini golf course, this potential new mixed-use development would include a food court, a coffee shop, a wellness facility and a bar. There are also plans for over 120 parking spaces to accommodate patrons, according to the developer.If approved, the development, which has been named the “Community Corner,” would...

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The City of Charleston is looking at the application of a potential new development off Folly Road that would include a mini golf course and a new retail center.

In addition to the mini golf course, this potential new mixed-use development would include a food court, a coffee shop, a wellness facility and a bar. There are also plans for over 120 parking spaces to accommodate patrons, according to the developer.

If approved, the development, which has been named the “Community Corner,” would take up 2.9 acres of land on Grimball Road Extension.

This project is still very early in the approval process and would require several other steps and approvals from the City to move forward.

Though nothing is finalized, this potential project has garnered quite a bit of attention on social media with residents sharing mixed feelings. Some shared concerns about an increase of traffic and the construction harming wetlands, while others say they are excited about the idea and feel the area needs more recreational activities.

Chad Biel is the owner of Bohemian Bull, a restaurant that is just half a mile from the location of the tentative development. Biel shared his thoughts on the proposed “Community Corner” project.

“I would say I see two sides of this,” he says. “It’s inevitable that the city’s going to grow. I think that there needs to be some better city planning. We have a lot of flooding on this street and a ton of traffic on this street. So, I would ask that, you know, that gets thought of when they’re doing these plans, but then, as a resident that’s kind of the piece of the pie, right? I have kids. So, they’re going to enjoy the mini golf but then we also will deal with all the traffic that comes along with that as more and more people come down this way in a relatively small highway that runs through here.”

Biel says he likes the idea of more activity options coming to the area and believes it could help foot traffic for his business, but he calls on city officials to consider some of the flooding issues and road traffic in the area. If that is addressed, he says he welcomes the idea.

“As a business owner, I think it’ll be a positive impact. I mean, every single time that we see other businesses opening up in the area, we always see a positive impact from it and we’ve had sales growth year over year, and that’s because the area is continuing to grow, we are continuing to get more people that move to James Island, we are getting more businesses on James Island,” he says.

The developer of this tentative project says that they plan to create a world class space that does not exist anywhere in Charleston.

While there is no form for public comment on this project, the city’s Technical Review Committee Administrator, Eric Schultz, welcomes questions about any of the items up for discussion by the committee. Schultz can be reached at 843-724-3790 or schultze@charleston-sc.gov.

The committee will meet Thursday at 9 a.m. to discuss this application.

This item is scheduled in the agenda to be heard at 11:30 a.m.

Click here for the Zoom link to join the meeting.

To call into the meeting, dial 1-312-626-6799, then type in Webinar ID# 832-2640-6779, followed by the password, 721363.

Guests are encouraged to join the meeting 20 minutes before the agenda item is scheduled to be discussed. The “Community Corner” is up for discussion at 11:30 a.m.

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James Island officials want your input for new family park coming to town

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The Town of James Island is getting a new family park in the imminent future, and leaders want public input on what it should look like and what amenities it offers.Town leaders will hold a community meeting next Wednesday as an opportunity for residents to share their thoughts and ideas for the new park.Mayor Brook Lyon said this piece of waterfront property belongs to the citizens of James Island, and she wants the new family park to be a special place that makes everyone happy and meets everyone&r...

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The Town of James Island is getting a new family park in the imminent future, and leaders want public input on what it should look like and what amenities it offers.

Town leaders will hold a community meeting next Wednesday as an opportunity for residents to share their thoughts and ideas for the new park.

Mayor Brook Lyon said this piece of waterfront property belongs to the citizens of James Island, and she wants the new family park to be a special place that makes everyone happy and meets everyone’s needs.

“Community input is extremely important. This park belongs to the citizens of James Island, of the town, and we want it to be a special place that makes them happy when they come here,” Lyon said.

According to a press release, the town purchased the property last year with Charleston County greenbelt and hospitality funds.

The town council just recently approved the project in November, and now they want to know your ideas before any finalized plans are made.

Lyon said the new park will sit on six acres at the end of Mill Point Road and is partially funded by a greenbelt grant of $930,000.

She said next week’s meeting serves as an opportunity for residents to share what they’d like the new park to look like and what kind of accommodations they’d like to see.

“We would like to get feedback from the community with what they’d like to see out here at the park. We are limited as the greenbelt application was for a passive park, so we can’t put tennis courts, or a basketball court, or anything like that that’s considered active,” Lyon said.

She said they expect the project’s total cost will be around $2.7 million, and since their funds are limited by the greenbelt grant, they’re going to have to pick and choose certain amenities; However, she said they don’t anticipate a lot of construction.

“Do you want picnic tables, leave it as is, any type of amenities, a dock? Those are the types of things we had in mind. It’s a tidal creek but it has good access for kayaking, fishing, crabbing and things like that. Those are things I believe our citizens are interested in having access to here in the Town of James Island,” Lyon said.

She said one of her priorities while in office is to protect the trees and the little green space that’s left on the island, adding that this park is the perfect chance to do just that.

“If you don’t cut the trees down to build houses, the trees suck up the water. It’s good flooding mitigation, it helps the atmosphere, it helps your peace of mind, it reduces traffic because the trees are there instead of more cars and people. Our island is so over-developed now and there’s very few opportunities for a park that any chance we get to have a park is great,” Lyon said.

The meeting will be held at the James Island Town Hall council chamber located at 1122 Dills Bluff Road at 7:00 p.m.

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City of Charleston takes next step in construction of Johns Island Fire Station

Published: Dec. 17, 2024 at 7:45 PM PST|JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Construction of a multi-million-dollar fire station on Johns Island that has been talked about for years is officially moving forward.This project took a significant step after the City of Charleston approved a construction manager at risk, or CMAR, contract during Tuesday night’s council meeting.A CMAR is when a construction manager agrees to take on a project and complete it within a set guaranteed maximum price, or GMP, and if construction servi...

Published: Dec. 17, 2024 at 7:45 PM PST|

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Construction of a multi-million-dollar fire station on Johns Island that has been talked about for years is officially moving forward.

This project took a significant step after the City of Charleston approved a construction manager at risk, or CMAR, contract during Tuesday night’s council meeting.

A CMAR is when a construction manager agrees to take on a project and complete it within a set guaranteed maximum price, or GMP, and if construction services end up exceeding the GMP that was agreed upon, the construction manager is responsible for those costs.

The set GMP that City officials approved for the CMAR contract Tuesday night is $12.4 million.

Fire Station number 23 is planned to sit on Maybank Highway at Wildts Battery Boulevard. Plans call for it to include a training room, three bays and two units: an engine company and a ladder company. Officials say there would be four personnel working on each unit.

“To have enough apparatus and units to respond when we need it, so this will provide for growth as we go forward as well as we continue to plan for future growth beyond this,” Deputy Chief Forrest Cockcroft says. “But right now this will give us another engine and a ladder to really beef up that initial first response that we get on most of our fires, especially on our commercial fires.”

The Charleston Fire Department only has one station on Johns Island, which is Fire Station 17 located on Bohicket Road.

Cockcroft says that they currently have coverage of all of Johns Island between the Charleston Fire Department and St. Johns Fire Department, but they are looking ahead to meet the demand as the population grows by adding this new fire station.

“One of the things we try to look to is to make sure that we have the appropriate amount of personnel on scene for a structure fire or different type of call types, so we have some benchmarks that we try to meet with that and this will allow us to meet those benchmarks much more quickly because we’ve got much more density of stations going in and additional firefighters on the road,” Cockcroft says.

City of Charleston council member, Jim McBride, who represents Johns Island says that this new fire station will also help out other stations in the surrounding areas.

“Sometimes fire stations from James Island and West Ashley have to come augment us if there is a big fire, so getting this station on there on Maybank will actually free them up to focus more on their areas, so it impacts not just Johns Island, but also James Island and West Ashley,” McBride says.

McBride says that the City of Charleston Fire Chief, Dan Curia, has been working ahead and training two fire teams that will occupy the new fire station once it is built.

He says that they expect shovels in the ground for this project in early 2025 with it expected to be finished by the end of the year.

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James Island leaders want to know your vision for future arts center facility

Published: Dec. 3, 2024 at 1:45 PM PST|JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The Town of James Island plans to build a brand-new Arts and Cultural Center in the future, and town leaders want to know your vision for it.Town officials invite you to a public input meeting next week as an opportunity to share your ideas for the new facility.Mayor Brook Lyon said the design plan is still in the very beginning stages, but your input still matters.“Everyone has ownership in it so everyone has a stake in it, so everyone feels...

Published: Dec. 3, 2024 at 1:45 PM PST|

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The Town of James Island plans to build a brand-new Arts and Cultural Center in the future, and town leaders want to know your vision for it.

Town officials invite you to a public input meeting next week as an opportunity to share your ideas for the new facility.

Mayor Brook Lyon said the design plan is still in the very beginning stages, but your input still matters.

“Everyone has ownership in it so everyone has a stake in it, so everyone feels a part of it and so it meets the needs of the majority of the people that will be using it and enjoying it,” she said.

Lyon said prior to this plan, the town didn’t have a dedicated arts and cultural building, so they leased the old library building from Charleston County for the past four years.

“It’s been a wonderful opportunity, but the space, the building itself needs a new roof and some repairs, and it’s a large expense to put into a building we don’t own. Council decided because of the expensive repairs as well as issues with parking, it would be prudent to move operations to town hall temporarily, close the current art center temporarily, move the operations to town hall, and then we’re moving forward with plans to build a new art center,” she said.

Lyon said the old library sufficed for the time being but doesn’t make sense financially to continue using it long term.

“It would not be financially prudent to put town money into that much money into a building we don’t own. And there were some stipulations on the parking. The parking lot is privately owned, and that was another issue that we felt like if we move our own art center over here, we have all the parking we need. We own the building, so it makes sense to put town money into a building that we own,” she said.

Lyon said this is the perfect opportunity for you to tell those in charge what your priorities are before any final plans are made.

We’ll have a survey for people to fill out. They can ask questions. I hope to have a slide presentation of the state-of-the-art center that I hope that we can mirror some of those qualities and meet the needs of the citizens that are interested in this wonderful opportunity,” she said.

According to a press release, the town council voted on Nov. 21 to move forward with plans for the new center: “Despite not owning the building, town taxpayers would have been responsible for these repair costs of $250,000 to $400,000 under the lease agreement, along with significantly higher parking costs for even a limited number of spaces at the site.”

The town plans on having more feedback sessions throughout the planning and design process.

“A lot of it is going to depend on what the community wants and what type of building we end up looking at constructing. I don’t have a direct answer for you yet. More will be revealed very soon, but hopefully, we’ll get the best for our dollar and have a great space,” Lyon said.

The new arts center will sit just feet away from the town hall, on the Town’s Hillman Lot.

The public input meeting will be held in the Town Hall Council Chamber on Dec. 11 at 7 p.m.

Lyon said current Arts and Cultural Center programming hasn’t stopped and will continue at James Island Town Hall for now.

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James Island approves $2.7M land purchase for park to preserve green space for residents

JAMES ISLAND — Town officials are in early stages of adding new community spaces that could improve quality of life for residents.Town Council approved two projects at its Nov. 21 meeting, one that will create a new park and another to build a new arts and cultural center.Purchasing the property for the park is expected to cost over $2.7 million, according to James Island Mayor Brook Lyon.The town requested a little over $930,000 in g...

JAMES ISLAND — Town officials are in early stages of adding new community spaces that could improve quality of life for residents.

Town Council approved two projects at its Nov. 21 meeting, one that will create a new park and another to build a new arts and cultural center.

Purchasing the property for the park is expected to cost over $2.7 million, according to James Island Mayor Brook Lyon.

The town requested a little over $930,000 in greenbelt funds from Charleston County's 2016 half-cent transportation sales tax to help buy 6.6 acres of land off Mill Point Road that will be used for their new park.

County Council gave unanimous approval on Nov. 12.

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One of Lyon's priorities as mayor is to obtain more green space and create parks across town. A few months after Lyon was elected in 2023, she directed town staff to look for properties with acreage that could be used for the effort. She said the owner of the Mill Point Road property reached out to her personally with an idea for a park and offered to give her a tour of the land.

After seeing the property herself, Lyon took each Town Council member on a tour and said they "fell in love with it."

"There’s only so much land," Lyon said. "If we don't get it, somebody else will and then it won’t be there for public use."

When Councilman Lewis Dodson saw the property, he called the land stunning and knew it would make for a beautiful park.

"It’s unbelievable. It's nice, it’s quiet, it's calm. ... It's going to be a fantastic opportunity for the town and people of James Island," Dodson said.

The town will close the land for the park in December, Lyon said. Then, a public input session will be held to see what residents would want to include there.

While nothing is set in stone, Lyon said that because there is waterfront access on the property, some ideas for what the park could have include paddle boarding, kayaking, fishing and crabbing.

The park would be located in County Councilwoman Jenny Costa Honeycutt's district. She said this is a great use of greenbelt funds, and added part of the county's transportation sales tax is balancing growth with investing in conservation.

"This is one of those exemplary projects where instead of another multi-family development or housing going in, we’re going to be able to preserve six acres with access to waterfront," Honeycutt said. "I'm thrilled to be able to work with the town to make this a reality."

Lyon said she's grateful the town can help preserve land. Development on James Island has resulted in a loss of trees, which has become a problem for residents, as they often help absorb water during flooding. She considers the conservation of land to curb development an "added bonus."

"We just want to help get more parks and green space for our citizens," Lyon said.

While the park is a new asset, the town's plans for an arts center are to replace that already exists off Camp Road.

The town currently leases the building the arts center is in from Charleston County, and right now there's not enough parking. This was reason enough to purchase an acre of land at the corner of Hillman Street and Dills Bluff Road, next to the James Island Town Hall, Lyon said.

"It's a great space, and we've really done a wonderful job with it, but there's just so much more, so much better we can do for the community," Lyon said.

The arts center currently hosts several classes and groups for different activities, like yoga, knitting, crocheting, and throughout December, Christmas art classes for children.

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Lyon said the town plans to move classes and programs from the current center to Town Hall in the next few months as they work on the new arts center.

While there are no concrete plans yet and Lyon hopes to set up a public input meeting in the next few weeks, she said some possibilities include having sinks in the rooms for art classes, proper ventilation for oil painting, pottery classes and even a theater stage.

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