Mauldin, SC Health and Fitness

For Terry Hall-Hines, practicing naturopathic health care is not just a profession, but a moral imperative. After a holistic regimen helped her conquer stage-four melanoma, she founded Creative Health & Herbal Nutrition to heal others and educate them about natural health care through counseling and workshops. At her clinic, Terry brings together a multidisciplinary team of specialists who collaborate so well that they finish each other's diagnoses. Nutritional counselors bolster the efforts of massage therapists, colon hydrotherapists, and acupuncturists. A team of five iridologists upholds the ancient Chinese art of examining the eye's iris to determine the proper herbal remedies for the body.

Since graduating from Sherman College of Chiropractic more than 30 years ago, Doctor of Chiropractic Monica Kemp has honed her ability to administer a careful blend of holistic and traditional Western approaches. She treats patients at all stages of life—from newborns to the elderly—for issues such as osteoporosis and lumbar disc problems. To do so, Dr. Kemp applies techniques such as spinal adjustments, nutrition advice, and natural hormone balancing.

When most people travel, they bring back souvenirs. Mickie Grist brings back credentials. Her studies have taken her from Chicago's Aveda Institute⎯where a talent for cosmetics landed her a full scholarship to study ayurvedic skincare⎯to New York City, where she studied vegan and wheat-free cuisine. She's also made stops in Albuquerque to hone her ayurvedic know-how, delved deeper into raw vegan cuisine in the Napa Valley, and earned a massage therapist's license at Greenville Tech.

Mickie Grist has settled down—for the moment, at least—at Bliss Touch Therapy, where her clients can reap the benefits of her worldly knowledge. By applying all-natural products alongside splashes of Ayurvedic oils, she yields healthy skin tones and textures. She even bookends treatments with aromatic foot soaks and soothing scalp massages, turning them into mini vacations that make up for the fact that Europe is booked solid for the rest of the year. She also renews minds and bodies with lymphatic drainage and craniosacral therapies.

Doctors Kevin and Scott Stoller, brothers as well as colleagues, treat each guest like a family member, answering questions as they tend to smiles of all ages with care and gentleness at their family cosmetic and dental practice. Tools such as digital x-rays can find even the smallest cavities while limiting radiation exposure, and Zoom! treatments whiten teeth using a bright light and a stain-fighting gel. Additionally, the brothers utilize the latest technology including digital radiography and laser cavity detection, along with administering new migraine and TMJ therapy. To make patients comfortable during procedures such as fillings and root canals, the dentists often use The Wand, a device that delivers local anesthesia as painlessly as possible. In addition to performing smile makeovers in the office and on TV, Dr. Kevin serves as team dentist for the Greenville Road Warriors hockey team.

Couture Pole Fitness’s flexible dress code—sweatpants and sexy stage outfits are equally welcome—speaks to the studio’s emphasis on comfort and openness. Women of all persuasions can saunter up to poles and swing their bodies through five levels of classes, as well as flexibility and conditioning lessons. An affiliate of Upstate Strut Dance Studio, Couture encourages women—and even some men—to let their hair down and have fun as they work their way through warm-ups and workout activities that include floor work, spins, plyometrics, and inverts. The studio’s girls-only pole-dancing parties supplement traditional lessons with lap-dancing classes that can help students woo lovers or lure loveseats home from the furniture store.

The physicians at University Medical Group Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics are dedicated to enhancing natural beauty with skincare solutions, injectable treatments, and cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. With the expertise of licensed medical aesthetician Marguerite Glassman, the center revitalizes surfaces with facials and chemical peels using high-quality Obagi and glo therapeutics products. Glassman also employs laser technology to help remove unwanted hair on the body or dashboard of a car.