Pain Management in Duluth, GA

Summit Spine & Joint Centers’ Duluth office occupies Suites 1610 and 1620 on Summit Ridge Parkway, serving central Gwinnett County. Patients come from Duluth, Berkeley Lake, Suwanee, Sugarloaf and Gwinnett Place, along with the St. Marlo, Sugarloaf Country Club and Riverbrooke neighborhoods.

Back and neck pain often shows up first as a smaller problem: trouble getting through a commute, a workday at a desk, or a night’s sleep without shifting positions. Our job in Duluth is to identify what is driving that pain, using your history, a physical exam and any imaging you already have, and then match it to a specific non-surgical treatment.

Follow-up matters as much as the first procedure. After an injection or nerve treatment, we check how much relief it gave and how long it lasted. That result tells us whether to repeat the treatment, move to a longer-lasting option like radiofrequency ablation, or try a different approach altogether.

Conditions

The Duluth office treats patients for conditions such as:

• Back Pain: ongoing pain in the lower or mid back, including pain that has lasted more than a few months.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): a chronic nerve condition that causes severe pain, swelling and skin sensitivity in an arm or leg.
• Degenerative Disc Disease: thinning of the cushioning discs between the vertebrae, a common source of neck and low back pain.
• Facet Joint Pain: an aching pain from the joints at the back of the spine, often worse when leaning backward.
• Fibromyalgia: a chronic condition that causes pain in many areas of the body at once.
• Herniated Disc: soft disc material pushing out through a tear and irritating a spinal nerve root.
• Lumbar Radiculopathy (Sciatica): compression of a lower-back nerve root, the most common cause of sciatica.
• Post-Laminectomy Syndrome (Failed Back Syndrome): persistent pain after a laminectomy or other back surgery that didn’t bring the expected relief.
• Spinal Stenosis: a tightening of the space around the spinal cord and nerves, common in adults over 50.

Treatments

Duluth patients have access to all 19 of the following treatments, none of which requires open surgery:

• Medial Branch Block: a short-acting numbing injection that shows whether radiofrequency treatment is a good fit.
• Facet Joint Injections: an injection that can both relieve facet joint pain and confirm where it starts.
• Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA): a longer-lasting nerve treatment for chronic joint and spine pain.
• Lumbar Radiofrequency Neurotomy: a radiofrequency treatment for lower-back joint pain, typically used after a positive medial branch block.
• Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy: a longer-lasting option for neck joint pain that responded well to a diagnostic block.
• Rhizotomy: a procedure that quiets specific pain-carrying nerves.
• Genicular Radiofrequency Ablation: a nonsurgical option for ongoing knee pain, often from arthritis.
• Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injection: relieves low back and buttock pain that comes from the sacroiliac joint.
• Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection: steroid medication placed in the epidural space to calm irritated lower-back nerves.
• Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection: a targeted epidural approach that reaches one specific nerve where it exits the spine.
• Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection: steroid medication delivered near irritated nerves in the neck.
• MILD: removes a small amount of thickened ligament through a tiny incision to relieve stenosis pressure.
• Vertiflex Superion: a minimally invasive implant that keeps a narrowed section of the lumbar spine open.
• Stellate Ganglion Block: a nerve block that can ease CRPS and other nerve pain in the upper body.
• Lumbar Sympathetic Block: blocks the sympathetic nerves that can drive burning pain in the legs and feet.
• Celiac Plexus Block: an injection that blocks pain signals coming from the abdominal organs.
• Discography: an imaging-guided test used to confirm a painful disc before treatment is planned.
• Intrathecal Pump Implant: for severe chronic pain, delivers small, precise doses of medication near the spinal cord.
• Back Pain Treatment: an individualized plan that may combine injections, nerve treatments and conservative care.

We accept all major commercial insurance carriers and Medicare. If you don’t see your plan listed, please contact our office at (844) 972-7752. The managed care health insurance market changes rapidly, and specific coverage questions should be discussed directly with your insurance company or our knowledgeable staff.