Williams-Altop Joins Greenville Natural Health Center
Submitted by: Kathy Vass on Aug 03, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Tagged with: alternative medicine, Greenville Natural Health Center, Massage Therapy, natural health and wellness, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Source: Greenville Natural Health Center
GREENVILLE, SC – Greenville Natural Health Center has announced the addition of Starr Williams-Altop as a Licensed Massage Therapist. A graduate of the Greenville Technical College Massage Therapy program, Williams-Altop has been with Odyssey Chiropractic and Massage Therapy for the past eight years. Nationally certified by the American Massage Therapy Association, Williams-Altop’s certifications include deep tissue and trigger point therapy, pre-natal massage, hot stone massage, integrated medical massage, sports massage, and post-op scar tissue therapy and rehabilitative massage.
The addition of full-time massage therapy services is part of Greenville Natural Health Center’s recent expansion and its mission of creating an area resource center for Alternative Medicine, said Dr. Marina Ponton, owner and acupuncture physician. The Center presently offers acupuncture, massage therapy, and herbal and nutritional therapies.
Opened by Ponton in 2007, Greenville Natural Health Center integrates biomedicine (Western medicine) with Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), utilizing a holistic (mind-body) approach to issues such as chronic fatigue, chronic pain, menopause and infertility. Ponton has worked and lectured in the United States, Sweden, and Holland, and completed extensive study at the American University of Paris, FAMU University in Prague, The University of Miami, and The Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine. She recently received her Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, the highest education level available to acupuncture physicians in the United States. A DOAM allows Ponton to participate in government or privately funded research projects and to teach at the university level.
For more information, call 864-370-1140 or visit www.greenvillenaturalhealth.com.