Pickens County
Pain management for Bent Tree, Georgia
Bent Tree residents are seen at Apollo Spine and Pain Center in Jasper, 14 Sammy McGhee Blvd, Suite 204 — roughly 15 minutes from the main gate by Cove Road and GA-515. Dr. Ramya Rangaraj provides spine and joint injections, nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation in office, with no facility fees.
Medically reviewed by Ramya Rangaraj, MD — ABPMR, ABPM
- Drive time
- about 15 minutes to our Jasper office
- Route
- Cove Road to GA-53, then GA-515 to Sammy McGhee Boulevard
- Landmark
- Measured from the Bent Tree main gate on Cove Road
- County
- Pickens County
Pickens County
Bent Tree, GA
A gated community of about 1,100 homes off Cove Road in Pickens County, roughly fifteen minutes from our Jasper office.
Getting here from Bent Tree
From the main gate on Cove Road, follow Cove Road out to GA-53, then take GA-515 to Sammy McGhee Boulevard. It is a straightforward fifteen-minute drive, and the last stretch is four-lane highway.
Suite 204 is on the second floor with an elevator, and parking sits close to the door. If stairs or long walks from a parking deck are part of why you have been putting off care, this office was chosen partly to avoid them.
Care without the drive to Atlanta
Bent Tree residents have historically driven to Canton, Woodstock or further for interventional pain care. There is no clinical reason to. Everything we perform in Cumming we perform in Jasper: epidural steroid injections under live fluoroscopy, medial branch blocks and radiofrequency ablation, sacroiliac and facet injections, knee and shoulder injections, genicular nerve blocks, trigger point injections and PRP.
Because the procedures happen in our own suite, there is no facility fee. Hospital-owned pain practices bill one; we do not.
Common reasons Bent Tree patients are referred
- Low back pain from facet arthritis, worse standing and on the golf course
- Knee arthritis limiting stairs and hill walking
- Neck pain and cervicogenic headache
- Sciatica and lumbar radiculopathy
- Neuropathy in the feet, often diabetic
- Pain that persists after spine or joint surgery
What a first visit looks like
Plan on about an hour. Dr. Rangaraj takes a history, examines you, reviews any imaging you bring, and explains what she thinks is generating the pain in plain terms. If a procedure makes sense, she will tell you what it does, how long relief typically lasts, and what it will not do.
You will not be handed a prescription and shown the door, and you will not be told you need six injections before anyone has established where the pain is coming from.