Fayetteville, GA

From Soundstages to Suburbs: Pain Relief in Fayetteville

Fayetteville is home to Trilith Studios, one of the busiest film and TV production hubs in the Southeast, spread across nearly 1,000 acres of soundstages and backlots. Grip, construction, and camera crews spend long days lifting rigging, building sets, and standing on concrete floors, the kind of work that adds up in the back, neck, and knees over a career. Add a growing number of Atlanta commuters spending hours in the car each week, and it’s no surprise Summit Spine & Joint Centers sees a steady stream of patients from Fayette, Clayton, Coweta, Henry, and Spalding County looking for a medical diagnosis.

Patients travel to our Highway 54 office from Peachtree City, Tyrone, Union City, Riverdale, Jonesboro, Lovejoy, and Griffin. Some are dealing with an on-set injury; others have spent years sitting in traffic or at a desk and the pain finally caught up with them. Whatever brings them in, we start the same way: a physical exam, a review of prior imaging, and a plan that favors non-surgical treatment first.

A mix of physically demanding production work and a lot of time spent commuting or at a desk brings our Fayetteville physicians a familiar set of symptoms.

Common Conditions

Our Fayetteville physicians diagnose the following problems most frequently:

• Back Pain: the top reason patients come see us, whether it started with a strained muscle, a disc issue, or arthritis setting in.
• Degenerative Disc Disease: wear on the discs cushioning each vertebra, a gradual process that speeds up with age and repetitive strain.
• Herniated Discs: when disc material slips out of place and presses on a nearby nerve; often triggered by heavy lifting or a sudden twist.
• Facet Joint Pain: inflammation and breakdown in the small joints linking the vertebrae, felt most when bending or twisting.
• Lumbar Radiculopathy (Sciatica): a pinched nerve in the lower back that radiates pain, numbness, or weakness down one leg.
• Spinal Stenosis: a tightening of the spinal canal that crowds the nerves inside it, more common as we age.

Complex and Chronic Pain Conditions

When the pain doesn't fit a clean diagnosis, these conditions need a closer look and a plan built around the patient, not just the symptom.

• Fibromyalgia: a body-wide pain condition that's genuinely hard to pin down, often diagnosed only after ruling out other causes.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): a nerve malfunction that causes lasting pain and visible skin changes in an arm or leg, usually starting after an injury.
• Post-Laminectomy/Failed Back Syndrome: recurring pain after a prior back surgery.

Each of these conditions responds differently. Fayetteville's care starts with non-surgical back pain treatment and escalates only when it's warranted.

Injections & Diagnostic Blocks

For most Fayetteville patients, treatment starts with an injection that both eases the pain and helps pinpoint its source.

• Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection: eases low back pain that shoots down into the leg.
• Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection: calms neck, shoulder, or arm pain at its source.
• Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection: delivers medication precisely where a compressed nerve root needs it.
• Facet Joint Injections: quiet inflamed facet joints along the spine.
• Medial Branch Block: pinpoints whether a facet joint is the true source of the pain.
• Sacroiliac Joint Injections: treat pain in the low back and buttock caused by a dysfunctional SI joint.

Nerve Ablation for Longer-Lasting Relief

If relief from an injection doesn't last, these heat-based procedures interrupt the nerve signals themselves for a longer window of relief.

• Lumbar Radiofrequency Neurotomy: uses heat to quiet the nerves delivering chronic low back pain.
• Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy: the neck-focused version of the same nerve-calming approach.
• Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA): applies targeted heat to disable nerves driving facet or sacroiliac joint pain.
• Rhizotomy: interrupts certain nerve roots to ease chronic back, neck, or joint pain.
• Genicular Radiofrequency Ablation: targets the nerves behind chronic knee pain from arthritis or injury.

Targeted Nerve Blocks for Complex Pain

Pain that starts outside the spine, whether from nerve damage, shingles, or CRPS, calls for a block aimed at the sympathetic nervous system instead.

• Celiac Plexus Block: addresses chronic abdominal or pelvic pain.
• Stellate Ganglion Block: eases CRPS or shingles-related pain in the head, face, neck, or arm.
• Lumbar Sympathetic Block: targets CRPS-related pain in the leg.

Advanced Options for Complex or Chronic Cases

When the standard playbook hasn't worked, or the diagnosis is still unclear, these procedures give our Fayetteville providers more to work with.

• Discography: helps confirm which disc is the pain generator.
• MILD Procedure: creates more room in a narrowed lumbar spinal canal without open surgery.
• Vertiflex Superion: a small spacer implant for lumbar spinal stenosis.
• Intrathecal Pump Implant: delivers pain medication straight to the spinal fluid for severe cases that haven't responded to anything else.

Fayetteville patients are cared for by Dr. Daniel Gianoli, double board-certified in anesthesiology and interventional pain medicine. He spent over a decade at Hartford Hospital chairing its chronic pain management program before joining Summit Spine, and he's also trained in medical acupuncture. His plans focus on long-term function, not just short-term relief.

The Fayetteville team works to see new patients quickly, often within a day. Call us or request an appointment online, and we’ll handle the rest, including insurance verification.

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