Whole-Person Care Designed Around You
At AdventHealth Hendersonville, our Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation care team, also known as physiatry, focuses on restoring movement, reducing pain, and improving quality of life without surgery. Our physiatrists specialize in nonsurgical spine care, musculoskeletal medicine, and chronic pain management, helping you return to the activities that matter most.
Whether you’re living with back or neck pain, recovering from an injury, or managing a chronic condition, our team provides personalized, whole‑person care close to home in Western North Carolina.
Advanced Nonsurgical Care for Pain and Function
Our physiatrists are rehabilitation physicians who take a whole-person approach to care, looking at how your condition affects your daily life — physically, emotionally, and socially. Instead of focusing on a single injury or symptom, your physiatry team works with you to develop a comprehensive plan designed to help you do the things that matter most to you.
Our goals are simple but powerful:
- Decrease pain
- Improve physical function
- Increase independence
- Support long-term wellness
Here, healing means more than managing symptoms — it means helping you move with confidence and live with purpose.
- What Is Physiatry?
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Physiatry is a medical specialty focused on maximizing physical function and independence for people living with pain, injury, disability, or movement limitations. Rather than treating a single symptom, physiatrists look at the whole person — how your condition affects your body, daily life, and overall well‑being.
At AdventHealth Hendersonville, our physiatrists prioritize conservative, nonsurgical approaches to help you heal, recover, and live well — body, mind, and spirit.
- Conditions We Treat
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Our physiatry team treats a wide range of spine, nerve, muscle, and joint conditions, including:
- Back pain and neck pain
- Arthritis and joint pain
- Sports and overuse injuries
- Nerve damage and neuropathy
- Spinal compression fractures
- Chronic pain conditions
- Functional limitations related to injury or disability
Care plans are always tailored to your goals, lifestyle, and stage of recovery.
- Nonsurgical Treatments and Advanced Procedures
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We offer comprehensive, nonsurgical spine care and pain management, including:
Conservative Treatments
- Diagnostic evaluations for spine and musculoskeletal conditions
- Medication management with a non‑opioid‑focused approach
- Coordination with physical therapy, occupational therapy, and mental health support
- Lifestyle and wellness‑based care planning
Interventional Procedures
- Epidural steroid injections (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar)
- Radiofrequency ablation for spine and joint pain
- Ultrasound‑guided joint and trigger point injections
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty
- Spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulator trials and implants
- IV therapies for complex neuropathic pain
These advanced options allow us to target pain at its source while helping you avoid surgery whenever possible.
- A Team Approach to Rehabilitation
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Our physiatrists are only one part of your rehabilitation care team. They work closely with primary care providers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, neurologists, and other specialists. This collaborative approach ensures your care is coordinated, personalized, and focused on long‑term improvement, not just short‑term relief.