Pain Management in Snellville, GA

Summit Spine & Joint Centers’ Snellville office, on Oak Road, serves patients throughout Gwinnett County, including Centerville, Lilburn and Grayson. Most patients here are 40 and older, dealing with back, neck or joint pain that has built up over time rather than from a single injury.

The team includes Dr. Matthew Weinstein, double board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine and trained at the University of South Florida, where he served as chief resident. He works alongside Buzzy Oguike, a physician assistant with a background in sports medicine and spine-related injuries, and Dr. Sunay Patel, who completed a neurology residency at Texas A&M University as chief resident before a pain medicine fellowship at the University of Washington.

With three providers on staff, a first visit at the Snellville office can often be scheduled sooner than at a single-provider location, and returning patients tend to see whichever of the three fits their treatment stage, from Dr. Weinstein’s procedural specialty to Dr. Patel’s neurology background and Buzzy Oguike’s focus on sports medicine and spine injuries.

Patients coming from Lilburn or Grayson typically start with a review of prior imaging and a physical exam, and because the office has three providers instead of one, follow-up appointments for an ongoing treatment plan are usually easier to schedule around a patient’s own calendar.

Conditions

Patients at the Snellville office come in with a wide range of neck, back and joint pain, 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 Snellville office offers the same 19 non-surgical treatments used across Summit Spine’s other locations:

• 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

Three providers see patients at the Snellville office:

• Dr. Matthew Weinstein: double board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine, trained at the University of South Florida, where he served as chief resident.
• Buzzy Oguike, PA-C: originally from Nigeria, with a biology degree from Kennesaw State University and a master’s in physician assistant studies from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, focused on pain management, sports medicine and spine-related injuries.
• Dr. Sunay Patel: trained in neuroscience at the University of Illinois in Chicago, completed medical school with honors at Lincoln Memorial University, a neurology residency at Texas A&M University as chief resident, and a pain medicine fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Full bios are linked above.