Atlanta Pain Doctors: Pain Management and Pain Relief

BrainThe Atlanta Pain Doctors offer a range of innovative pain management treatments for patients with acute or chronic pain, back pain, arthritis pain, stroke pain, migraine pain, the pain of depression, and more.

With the inception of the Brain Enhancement Center, the advanced, non-invasive neuromodulation techniques of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) are now available for the treatment of treatment-resistant chronic pain, fibromyalgia and treatment-resistant depression.

The Atlanta Pain Doctors clinic strives to provide the most advanced pain relief treatment options currently available, in a supportive, compassionate environment.

Our goal is to help you decrease the level of suffering, return you to your maximum level of functioning and independence, and help you restore your quality of life.

On these pages you will find information on the pain relief treatments we offer.

Some of the kinds of pain our Atlanta pain doctors treat…

  • Chronic pain
  • Fibromyalgia pain
  • Pain from stroke
  • Arthritis pain
  • Migraine headache pain
  • Back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Shoulder pain
  • Knee pain
  • Hip pain
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome pain
  • Pain of depression
  • Pain of addiction
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Myofascial pain
  • Herniated disc pain
  • Sciatic pain
  • Tendonitis pain
  • Bursitis pain
  • Pinched nerve pain
  • Sacroiliac (SI) joint pain
  • Shingles/Post herpetic neuralgia pain
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    Chronic pain relief at our Atlanta pain clinic

    The electrotherapies our Atlanta pain clinic provides are effective affordable and safe ways of relieving chronic pain. They have advantages over traditional pain treatment which relies on medications that are expensive, have negative side effects and may be addictive. Narcotics, the cornerstone of acute pain treatment, are not as effective for chronic pain and when used for long periods of time actually make patients more sensitive to pain. For every dollar spent on pain medication, another dollar is spent treating a complication associated with that medication.

    With chronic pain, there is pathological reorganization of the nervous system in which nerve fibers transmitting painful impulses to the brain become “trained” to deliver pain signals better. With time pain increases, and as chronic pain persists, it may become more irreversible and less responsive to treatment. Chronic pain interferes with short-term memory and can age the brain up to 20 times faster than normal.

    A new and exciting pain relief treatment offered exclusively by our Atlanta pain doctors in Georgia is transcranial direct current stimulation. tDCS changes the paradigm for treating chronic pain by treating the pathology and not merely masking pain. tDCS is a non-invasive electrical stimulation that modulates the activity of neurons in the brain.

    tDCS treats not only chronic pain but also relieves pain associated with depression, addiction to drugs or alcohol or nicotine, and helps stroke victims recover faster. Our Atlanta pain clinic is the only place to get tDCS treatment in Georgia.

    Pulsed electro-magnetic field therapy, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and micro-electrical nerve stimulation are also used by our Atlanta pain doctors to treat patients suffering from chronic pain.

    Facts about chronic pain

    Woman with PainThe origin of chronic pain is in the nervous system. Because nerves function electrically, chronic pain can be considered an electrical malfunction. The nervous system, and the way electrical signals are conducted, is disrupted in the chronic pain syndromes.

    Chronic pain syndromes include: fibromyalgia, chronic low back pain, arthritis, chronic headaches and neuropathy.

    When you have pain 24 hours a day, seven days a week, that permanent perception of pain in your brain makes areas in your brain continuously active. This continuous dysfunction in the equilibrium of the brain can change the wiring permanently and further injure the brain.

    On any given day, 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Most are over the age of 50, and interestingly, women are at higher risk than men for experiencing chronic pain, and they are also more likely to be disabled by pain than men are. Chronic pain has been shown to weaken the immune system, impair healing, disturb sleep patterns, and worsen if not cause neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, anxiety and fatigue.

    Pain can be treated with drugs that alter the body’s chemistry or with electricity which modulates the pain signals. The greater the potency of the drug, the more severe its side-effects. Electrotherapy is effective, painless, non-invasive and without side-effects. The electrotherapies available at our Atlanta Pain Clinic include: transcranial direct current stimulation, pulsed electro-magnetic field therapy and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. In addition, medication management, nerve blocks, joint and trigger point injections are also provided.