Pain Management in Anderson, SC

Summit Spine & Joint Centers’ Anderson office, on East Greenville Street, brings the same pain management approach used across Summit’s Georgia locations to Anderson County and the surrounding Abbeville and Greenwood County communities. Most patients here are 40 and older, dealing with back, neck or joint pain that hasn’t improved with rest, medication or physical therapy.

Dr. Matt Hamilton leads the office. He trained at Mercer School of Medicine in Savannah before completing an anesthesiology residency and an interventional pain fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Before focusing on pain management full time, he directed anesthesia services at a Bruner Aesthetics and Medicus Ambulatory Surgery Center location in Anderson, giving him an established history in the area rather than being new to it.

Dr. Hamilton’s anesthesiology training means a first visit often includes a detailed conversation about pain history before any procedure is discussed, and patients transferring from another provider can bring prior imaging directly to that first appointment rather than repeating tests.

For patients in Anderson County choosing a pain management office for the first time, the deciding factor is usually continuity: this office runs on the same evaluation and treatment approach used at Summit Spine’s longer-established Georgia locations, backed by a physician who already has years of experience treating patients in this specific market.

Conditions

Patients at the Anderson office come in with a range of neck, back and joint conditions, including:

• Back Pain: pain that hasn’t improved with rest, medication or physical therapy.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): nerve pain that lingers well past the injury that started it.
• Degenerative Disc Disease: the natural thinning of spinal discs that builds up with age.
• Facet Joint Pain: irritation in the small joints that let the spine bend and twist.
• Fibromyalgia: widespread, hard to pin down pain paired with heightened sensitivity.
• Herniated Disc: disc material pressing on a nearby spinal nerve, often confirmed by MRI.
• Lumbar Radiculopathy (Sciatica): pinched-nerve pain that travels from the lower back down one leg.
• Post-Laminectomy Syndrome (Failed Back Syndrome): pain that continues after an earlier spine surgery.
• Spinal Stenosis: narrowing of the spinal canal that puts pressure on the nerves inside it.

Treatments

The Anderson office provides all 19 non-surgical treatments available across Summit Spine, each selected to match the diagnosis:

• Back Pain Treatment: a plan built from the options below, matched to the diagnosis.
• Celiac Plexus Block: a nerve block for chronic pain in the stomach, pancreas or other abdominal organs.
• Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection: the same steroid approach used for neck and arm pain.
• Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy: the same heat-based technique applied to neck joints.
• Discography: an imaging test that pinpoints which disc is causing the pain.
• Facet Joint Injections: reduce swelling in the spine’s small connecting joints.
• Genicular Radiofrequency Ablation: targets the nerves behind chronic knee pain.
• Intrathecal Pump Implant: delivers low-dose pain medication directly to the spine.
• Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection: a steroid injection that calms an inflamed lower-back nerve.
• Lumbar Radiofrequency Neurotomy: an RFA variation for the lower back, built to last months longer than a standard injection.
• Lumbar Sympathetic Block: an injection series that eases CRPS-related leg pain.
• Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection: steroid guided precisely to one affected nerve root.
• Medial Branch Block: pinpoints which facet joint is behind the pain before treating it.
• MILD: a minimally invasive outpatient option for spinal stenosis that doesn’t require an implant.
• Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA): uses heat to interrupt a nerve’s pain signal.
• Rhizotomy: uses controlled heat to quiet a painful joint’s nerve supply.
• Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injection: treats pain at the joint connecting the spine and pelvis.
• Stellate Ganglion Block: treats nerve pain in the head, neck or arms.
• Vertiflex Superion: a small implant that holds a narrowed spinal canal open.

Providers

One provider sees patients at the Anderson office:

• Dr. Matt Hamilton: trained at Mercer School of Medicine and completed an anesthesiology residency and interventional pain fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, after previously directing anesthesia services at a surgery center in Anderson.

Full bios are linked above.