Pain Management in Woodstock, GA

Pain that hangs around for months tends to shrink your world a little at a time. You skip the evening walk or start planning errands around how long you can stand in line. For anyone looking for pain management in Woodstock, GA, Summit Spine & Joint Centers has an office near downtown Woodstock, just off Highway 92 with quick access to I-575. It serves Cherokee County and draws patients from neighboring Cobb, Fulton, Paulding and Pickens counties.

The two physicians here come at pain from slightly different directions. One trained in sports medicine and non-surgical orthopedics, and the other in physical medicine and rehabilitation alongside interventional pain medicine. The first visit spends as much time on how your spine or joint moves as on where it hurts. A knee that stiffens after years of running gets a different workup than a lower back that aches after a long day at a desk.

If you’ve had an MRI or X-ray elsewhere, bring the written report and a copy of the images so your physician can see what’s already been checked. You can request an appointment directly or come by referral from your own doctor.

Conditions We Treat in Woodstock

Most Woodstock patients have spine or joint pain that has outlasted rest and over-the-counter medicine. The team most often treats:

• Herniated Disc: inner disc material that has pushed through the disc’s outer wall and presses on a nerve.
• Degenerative Disc Disease: discs that lose height and water over time, leaving the spine stiffer and nerves with less room.
• Lumbar Radiculopathy (Sciatica): a compressed nerve root in the low back that sends pain or tingling into the buttock and leg.
• Spinal Stenosis: a narrowed spinal canal that makes long stretches of walking or standing painful, often easing when you sit or lean forward.
• Facet Joint Pain: pain from the paired joints along the rear of the spine, which tends to flare when you twist or look up.
• Post-Laminectomy Syndrome (Failed Back Syndrome): pain that lingers or comes back after a spine operation.
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): an arm or leg that stays painful, swollen or touch-sensitive well after an injury.
• Fibromyalgia: widespread aching and fatigue that call for a plan that reaches beyond a single sore spot.
• Back Pain: pain in the low or middle back that gets in the way of sitting, bending or sleep.

Non-Surgical Treatments

Every option offered in Woodstock is either non-surgical or minimally invasive, and many are performed under live imaging guidance. Your physician will explain which options, if any, fit your diagnosis and how they combine into a back pain treatment plan.

Injections

• Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection: anti-inflammatory medication delivered to the epidural space in the low back.
• Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection: medication placed where one inflamed nerve root exits the spine.
• Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection: an epidural approach for neck pain radiating into the shoulder or arm.
• Facet Joint Injections: a small dose of medication delivered into or beside a painful spinal joint.
• Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injection: aimed at the joint that links the base of the spine to the pelvis.

Diagnostic Procedures

• Medial Branch Block: a temporary numbing test that helps pinpoint which facet joints are involved.
• Discography: a pressure test that helps show whether a specific disc is a source of pain.

Radiofrequency Nerve Treatments

• Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA): radio waves heat a small sensory nerve to interrupt the pain signals it carries.
• Lumbar Radiofrequency Neurotomy: RFA directed at the nerves that serve the low back’s facet joints.
• Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy: the same approach applied to the facet joints of the neck.
• Genicular Radiofrequency Ablation: focuses on the sensory nerves around the knee for chronic knee pain.
• Rhizotomy: disables selected nerve fibers that carry pain from a joint.

Nerve Blocks

• Celiac Plexus Block: targets a nerve cluster behind the stomach for chronic upper abdominal pain.
• Lumbar Sympathetic Block: aimed at the sympathetic nerves tied to burning leg pain, including CRPS.
• Stellate Ganglion Block: a nerve block at the base of the neck for certain nerve pain in the arm, face or upper chest.

Stenosis Procedures and Implanted Therapies

• MILD: trims a sliver of overgrown ligament via a small port to give compressed nerves more room.
• Vertiflex Superion: an implanted spacer between vertebrae that holds a narrowed part of the low back open.
• Intrathecal Pump Implant: an implanted device that delivers measured doses of medication into the spinal fluid.

Woodstock Pain Management Physicians

Two board-certified physicians currently see patients here:

• Dr. Hubert Pare: an Oglethorpe University graduate who completed a sports medicine and non-surgical orthopedics fellowship in Savannah and focuses on interventional spine procedures.
• Dr. An D. Do: board-certified in both pain medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation, with residency training at Montefiore Medical Center in New York followed by fellowship training in interventional pain management.

Full bios are below.

At Summit Spine & Joint Centers, we're proud to make our care affordable and accessible by accepting most insurance plans and workers' compensation claims. Whatever the cause of your current pain symptoms, we're here to help you on the road to pain-free living and an active lifestyle. lease contact our office to find out if we can accept your insurance and bill the company directly on your behalf to make treatment affordable and hassle-free.