Find answers for acute and chronic pain.
Living with chronic pain can significantly impact daily life, affecting your mood, mental and physical health. Pain is commonly experienced after injury or with disease and other health conditions. Acute pain typically resolves with time and healing. Chronic pain, however, persists beyond the expected period of healing.
Sterling Group’s Pain Management Clinic offers solutions for persistent, severe and debilitating pain. Perhaps it’s pain after an injury, lingering back pain or nerve damage from chronic conditions such as diabetes. We work with you to identify the source of your pain, explore treatment options and create a care plan to alleviate or ease the pain. Your care team — including physician specialists, physical therapists, nutritionists and other clinicians — uses appropriate therapies and exercise, medication and/or interventional procedures to help you find relief and healing and restore the lifestyle you desire.
Conditions and Services
Conditions
- Arm, foot, hand or leg pain
- Cancer pain
- Carpal tunnel pain
- Chronic condition pain (arthritis, diabetes and more)
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Facial pain
- Fibromyalgia pain
- Headaches and migraines
- Joint pain
- Lower back pain
- Myofascial pain
- Neck pain
- Neuropathy
- Radiculopathy
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
Services
Physical and occupational therapies use effective techniques for pain relief, such as hands-on treatment, exercise and education. Physical therapy addresses mobility, muscle strength and proper body mechanics to reduce pain. Occupational therapy helps you find strategies to manage your pain and resume desired and daily activities.
Anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs), muscle relaxers and/or prescription pain relievers may be appropriate to facilitate your healing and relieve your symptoms.
Electrical stimulation interrupts or modifies pain signals, providing a treatment option for pain that hasn’t responded to other therapies. Neurostimulation, including procedures like spinal cord stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation, can significantly reduce your pain.
This minimally invasive procedure specifically targets pain caused by herniated or bulging discs in the spine. Radiofrequency energy shrinks the herniated disc tissue in order to reduce pressure on surrounding nerves, relieving pain.
Radiofrequency ablation, also known as radiofrequency neurotomy, primarily targets arthritis or joint pain of the spine. Specialized needles that are placed over affected nerves send thermal energy or heat signals to temporarily disconnect the nerves. It doesn’t correct the underlying cause of pain, but radiofrequency ablation blocks pain signals. This procedure is typically used when more conservative treatments like medications or physical therapy have not provided relief.
Nerve conduction studies (NCS) and electromyography (EMG) are used to help diagnose neuromuscular disorders that can cause pain. These diagnostic tests measure the electrical activity in muscles and nerves to find damage or injury.
These injections, also known as corticosteroid injections, are commonly used for effective pain management by reducing inflammation and pain. Direct delivery of corticosteroids, such as cortisone, can provide significant relief that can last up to several months.
These imaging tests help diagnose and potentially guide treatment for chronic back pain. Contrast material is injected into the disc and observed to measure the resulting pressure and pain response, in order to identify a specific disc as a factor in the patient’s pain.
This minimally invasive treatment option targets and stimulates dorsal root ganglia structures (nerve cell clusters) along the spinal column. It is designed to manage chronic pain in specific areas of the lower body, including the foot, knee, hip or groin.
A steroid or other anti-inflammatory medication is injected into the epidural space (the area around spinal nerves) to target and relieve pain caused by nerve inflammation or irritation. Commonly used for chronic back pain, it can provide temporary pain relief lasting up to several months.
Facet joints along the spine can become painful from arthritis or back injury. A facet joint injection uses a local anesthetic or steroid medication to help block pain and facilitate diagnosis of the source of pain.
This imaging technique uses X-rays and a fluorescent screen to view real-time moving internal organs and internal musculoskeletal structures. It provides guidance to your physician for precise injections into areas that are causing pain.
Kyphoplasty treats compression fractures, usually caused by osteoporosis or spinal tumors, using a balloon and cement injection into the fractured bone. This minimally invasive procedure takes less than an hour, offers pain relief within days and reduces the future risk of fracture.
This procedure destroys nerves in an area of pain to help reduce or stop pain signals. Nerve ablation can help relieve chronic pain associated with low back, neck or other areas of the body. It can be done using heat (radiofrequency ablation), cold or chemicals.
Nerve blocks, or neural blockades, can help people with chronic pain function in daily lives, enabling them to work, exercise and do daily tasks. Used for pain relief or for total loss of feeling (i.e., for surgery or childbirth), nerve blocks are injections of medicines to block pain from specific nerves. They can provide immediate relief and offer longer-term relief by allowing nerve irritation to heal.
A small pump surgically implanted under the skin of your abdomen, also known as an intrathecal pump, delivers pain medication directly to the spinal fluid through a tiny internal catheter. This treatment option is often used when other pain relief methods have been unsuccessful.
This device manages chronic pain by stimulating peripheral nerves that transmit pain with mild electrical impulses, disrupting pain signals before they reach the brain. The device is positioned outside the body or implanted, with leads placed directly over the peripheral region where pain originates. Typically, the battery is located outside the body. This specialized device can help relieve pain when other treatments are ineffective.
This implanted device, also known as dorsal column stimulator, sends low levels of electricity directly into the spinal cord to relieve pain. Spinal cord stimulation is most often used when nonsurgical treatment options have proven ineffective. Using a remote control, patients are able to trigger the electrical impulses when they feel pain. Both the remote and its antenna are outside the body.
Trigger points are painful “knots” in your muscles that may be extremely sensitive to pressure or touch. A trigger point injection (TPI) can help relieve myofascial pain (involving muscles and/or connective tissue), particularly in your neck, shoulder, arms, legs and lower back. It commonly uses a local anesthetic with or without a corticosteroid or Botox, or without any injection substance (dry needling).
This minimally invasive treatment provides effective long-term relief from pain associated with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). A small spacer is placed inside the spine without removal of nearby bone or tissue. The spacer preserves the space in the spine to keep pressure off the nerves, causing your leg and back pain.
Locations
Sterling Group Pain Management Clinic Sterling Group Pain Management Clinic
9 Hospital ParkMoultrie, GA 31768
Providers
Find Relief That Lasts.
Chronic pain shouldn’t define your life. Our pain management specialists use advanced therapies and personalized plans to help you regain control. Contact us to take the first step toward lasting relief.