The Joint Chiropractic - SayeBrook

Dr. Patrick Vollrath -- who is happy to be called Dr. Pat or Dr. V -- has been with The Joint Chiropractic since December 2015. A graduate of Millersville (Pa.) University with a degree in biology, Dr. Pat received his doctorate in 1986 from Texas Chiropractic College.

With Dr. Pat’s experience, he has seen a lot of things through the years. “The part I love most about being in the chiropractic field is seeing people who are in pain, many times for months or even years, get relief from that pain with an adjustment,” he says. “The other thing is teaching people ways to be healthy without medication or surgery.”

Dr. Pat was raised in Lancaster, Pa., and said he knew chiropractic was his calling after his parents told him about its virtues. Having worked in Philadelphia and Exton, Pa., and Pasadena, Md., he and wife Diane have been married more than 30 years and have three grown children.

Dr. Pat enjoys the SayeBrook clinic and loves that he has the opportunity “to concentrate on helping people and not worrying about insurance companies, attorneys, narratives, or plan limitations,” he says.

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In his spare time, Dr. Pat enjoys outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, hiking, and target shooting.

Given an opportunity to share the perfect dinner with anyone from history, Dr. Pat would like to bring together his own personal Mt. Rushmore from the Bible: Jesus, Noah, Moses and Elijah. “Who could you learn more from,” Dr. Pat asks.

The coolest thing he has ever done was take a two week trip to Alaska. “It is the most beautiful country I have ever seen and some of the nicest people I have ever met,” Dr. Pat says.

Dr. Joseph Camilli joined The Joint Chiropractic in 2018 with his assignment to the SayeBrook clinic in Myrtle Beach, where he joins the team’s other local chiropractors. A 1984 graduate of Rutgers who received a degree in political science, Dr. Camilli got his doctorate from Pennsylvania College of Chiropractic in 1987.

“The thing I enjoy most about being a chiropractor is the opportunity to educate patients and to really help them,” Dr. Camilli says.

A product of southern New Jersey, he worked previously in Philadelphia. Dr. Camilli and wife Susan have been married more than 30 years; they attended high school and college together, raised two adult daughters, and have two awesome dogs: Scout, an Australian shepherd, and Sarge, “a rescue dog, probably Aussie and Catahoula.”

Dr. Camilli says he knew that chiropractic was his calling “when I realized you can help heal people without drugs or invasive procedures.”

He says the best thing about working as a local chiropractor in Myrtle Beach is “the doctors I’m working with; they’re good guys and great doctors.”

In his spare time, Dr. Camilli enjoys the outdoors and counts baseball and golf among his hobbies. “I also enjoy serving in my community,” he says.

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Dr. Camilli says the one thing he must keep stocked in his refrigerator is cheese. “I like old world cheeses,” he explains.

If there was an opportunity to share that love of cheese with four figures from history who would comprise his dream dinner party, Dr. Camilli would gather together a founding father, an explorer from Spain, a musician from England, and an actress from Italy.

“John Adams, because I’m a history buff and because he was the smartest and most bluntly honest of our founding fathers,” Dr. Camilli says. “Christopher Columbus was the most intrepid person I’ve ever read about. George Harrison, because I like music, the Beatles, and because he was the most interesting of the four. And Sophia Loren because there has to be a reason for the rest of us to want to be there.”

Dr. Camilli has become a fairly accomplished world traveler. “I’ve been fortunate enough to travel through 48 of the 50 states, through Europe and Asia Minor, the Caribbean, and Central America,” he says. “I’ve seen the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Mediterranean. I have seen popes and presidents in person. Traveling and exploring confirms that other people and other places are amazing. And traveling provides the opportunity to meet with new people and create memories with family members and friends. It doesn’t get any cooler than that.”

Dr. Robin Willey has been part of The Joint Chiropractic team since 2014 when he joined the SayeBrook clinic. He studied pre-med and biology at The Ohio State University and received his doctorate from Texas Chiropractic College in 1979.

“The best thing about being in this field is helping people achieve better health,” Dr. Willey says. “Extraordinary satisfaction comes from helping a person become pain-free, especially after they’ve been suffering for a while.”

Dr. Willey grew up in Belpre, in south Ohio, and married his high school sweetheart; together, they have raised a grown son and daughter who have become “very successful” in their own right, and keep company with a delightful dachshund named Marley.

Dr. Willey became a believer in chiropractic while an undergraduate at Ohio State. “My best childhood friend had injured his back while racing motorcycles,” Dr. Willey says. “He went to a chiropractor near campus, and not only did the adjustment help his back pain, but it also helped chronic congestion he had experienced for more than 10 years.

“This caused me to research chiropractic and I eventually enrolled.”

His career path has landed many people at his chiropractic table, which is one of the things he likes best about working in Myrtle Beach’s SayeBrook location.

“We see such a diverse population of patients at our clinic,” he says, “and it is such a pleasure to help them regain their health in a natural way.”

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Like many people, Dr. Willey needs a cold comfort food in his freezer at all times: “Ice cream,” he says. “I have an extreme sweet tooth.”

Given the opportunity to invite anyone to an ice cream social, Dr. Willey says he would bring in Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking: “I would love to hear them talk about their vision of the future and pick their brains about new concepts in technology, etc.”

The coolest experience of Dr. Willey’s life rose from his being a chiropractor.

“When I was beginning in practice, a local motel called to see if I could make a house call because they had a patient who could not get out of bed,” Dr. Willey says. “Being a new practitioner, I was anxious to help, so I agreed. Upon arriving, I found out that the patient was a band member for Gregg Allman, who was in town to perform that night with the Allman Brothers Band. I gave the patient a treatment and as I was helping him, Gregg Allman came into the room. He thanked me and gave me a handwritten note on his personal stationary giving me access to the concert that evening. I have saved this note over the years, and actually attended Gregg’s last concert with my daughter and son.”