"Medical Massage Therapy Is The Most Prescribed Complementary Therapy By Referring Medical Doctors For Low Back Pain And Other Musculoskeletal Conditions."

Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr. Craig Donnelly, DC, and I have been in private chiropractic practice here in Aiken, South Carolina since September of 1998. As a resident of Aiken, SC and a local participator as a patient in the local health care arean, I have had the opportunity to observe and experience the positives and the short comings that the various physical medicine therapies have to offer the various musculoskeletal based conditions.

After being in the Chiropractic field for over nine years, I have noticed that the science and art of Chiropractic therapy alone is not the most complete approach to treating many of my patients' musculoskeletal conditions as I was once lead to believe.

In fact, I soon realized that no one profession that deals in the various physical medicine modalities has the complete answer to most musculoskeletal conditions such as neck & back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches, to name a few.

I observed that most musculoskeletal conditions respond best when they have been treated using a multi-disciplinary approach to physical medicine.  An approach that includes the principles and modalities that include clinical massage, chiropractic manipulative therapy, physical therapy and when necessary pharmaceutically based therapy.

For that reason I formed Aiken Physical Medicine Group, Inc., a healthcare delivery approach that delivers a complete range of physical medicine therapies either singly or multi-disciplinary under one roof including;

1. Medical massage therapy

2. Physical therapy and rehabilitation

3. Chiropractic kinesiology

Time and time again massage therapy has been shown to be extremely effective in treating low back pain, tension headaches, whiplash, sciatica, and other musculoskeletal conditions.

Massage therapy has been the complementary therapy of choice for many of the medical profession.

The method in which health care is delivered is certainly changing, with more emphasis being placed on the delivery of those methods of care that have been shown to be clinically effective and cost-effective. 

The physical medicine procedures and therapies provided by The Medical Massage Center of Aiken certainly fall under those parameters.

Medical massage therapists employed at the medical massage center of Aiken work under the specific direction and / or prescription of a medical doctor, doctor of chiropractic or doctor of osteopathy.

Our staff at The Medical Massage Center of Aiken is fully trained to perform the necessary assessments, documentation, and progress reporting required by the insurance companies and medical community.  We have the experience, expertise and staff to get most of our patient's massage and manual therapy covered by their health insurance plan.

For the referring doctor's convenience we have prepared an easy to fill out prescription form.  If you are interested in becoming a part of our referral network please feel free to click on our prescription pad and print of a number of prescription forms for future use as the need should arise.

If you would be interested in joining our referral network please fill out the following form so that we will have your practice on file so that when the need should arise we may refer the public to your office.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,