Dr. Charles Joseph Nivens MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
3 Plantation Park Drive Bluffton SC, 29910About
Dr. Charles Nivens is a physiatrist practicing in Bluffton, SC. Dr. Nivens is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Nivens focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Nivens can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Ga Sch of Med, Augusta Ga 1994
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University 1994
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
Provider Details
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Back Pain
- Sciatica
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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