Hometown Orthopedic and Sports Rehabilitation in Gray recently opened, providing physical therapy and other services to clients around Jones County.
The physical therapy business is located at 260 West Clinton Street Suite 2 in Gray, and is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Heath Mills and Kimberlyn Wilson, the owners of Hometown Orthopedics and Sports Rehabilitation, said they are happy to open their business and welcome clients into the doors. Wilson said she’s happy to be providing a service like physical therapy to the people of Gray.
“About a year ago, Heath and I were trying to figure out what we wanted to do next. Both of us have had ambition being able to open our own clinic, and this is the place we found we could open one,” Wilson said. “We love our community, and we’re really involved with the high school. We saw the need to bring a physical therapy business like this here to Jones County.”
A team was started at the Jones County High School when she attended, and she was a gymnast for 15 years.
She said being a gymnast led her into physical therapy, and she attended college to become a physical therapist.
“I was raised in Round Oak. The community we have here in Jones County is great. The community poured in here, and just knowing we have support from everyone is wonderful.
We wanted to have our business in Jones County, because we knew everyone would back us up,” the co-owner said.
Wilson said they provide physical therapy to clients, which is anything from orthopedic rehabilitation to post-op rehab and sports medicine. She said they also do dry needling, injury prevention services, athletic training services, and wellness.
Mills said it was a dream of his to have a business in Jones County for a long time now, and it was time. He said he grew up in an athletic family and always played sports. He said he wanted to keep doing sports, and he went to Valdosta State to become an athletic trainer.
He was then able to go to Georgia Southern University to do exercise science. He said he did that for 15 years, then went back to school to do physical therapy.
“This kind of physical therapy is important, because it helps people continue to live the kind of lifestyle they want to live,” Mills said. “They can get back to doing things that are important to them.
Everybody has a lifestyle they want to achieve, and we feel we can help get them back to the level of function they want.”
He said he’s originally from Wilkinson County but moved to Jones County in 1998. He said he likes the family atmosphere of Jones County. He said it’s a great town to live in and a good place to raise a family.
The co-owner said people should choose Hometown Orthopedics and Sports Rehabilitation, because he said they will try their best to get people back to how they were before. He said they have several connections, so they can provide clients with a physician who can help them best. He said they create an atmosphere where people can get better. Mills and Wilson both said they look forward to new people opening the doors at Hometown Orthopedics and Sports Rehabilitation. They said they want to make people feel at home and help Jones Countians to the best of their ability.
“We wanted to give back to a community that’s been so great to us,” Mills said.
“The people have always rallied around us, so being able to give back to the people of Jones County is what I enjoy the most about being here. We hope they choose us and stay in Jones County for their physical therapy.”
For more information about Hometown Orthopedics and Sports Rehabilitation, visit www. hometownorthosportsrehab. com, or call 478-936-7621.
