Low back pain & sciatica
Lumbar segments, disc irritation and the leg pain that follows it. Adjusting plus traction and specific loading you do at home between visits.
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Buckhead · 4205 Roswell Rd NE
A Buckhead chiropractor who keeps the schedule honest
Rick Kuhlman, DC has treated low backs, necks and sciatica at the same Roswell Road address since 2004. The exam is unhurried, the plan is written down, and you leave knowing how many visits it should take.
2004Same address
60 minFirst exam
SatMorning hours
Level parking behind the suite
No stairs from the lot, and the door is the one under the blank sign panel.
How a visit runs
A visit that ends with a plan, not a rebooking
Five things happen every first appointment, in this order. Nothing here is a surprise you find out about at the desk afterwards.
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We ask what changed, not only where it hurts
Sleep, commute, lifting, a new desk chair. Most low backs on this road have a reason behind them, and it usually turns up in the first ten minutes.
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Exam and range of motion in the same hour
Orthopedic and neurological screens, posture, and how far each segment actually moves — measured, written on your chart, and repeated later so progress is not a feeling.
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Imaging only when the exam asks for it
If a red flag shows up you get a referral a mile up the road the same day. If it does not, you are not paying for films nobody needed.
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You know the adjustment before it happens
Diversified, drop-table or instrument — Dr. Kuhlman names the technique, shows the segment on the model, and asks before hands go anywhere.
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A visit count and a date to reassess
Typically six to eight visits for a new complaint, then a re-exam. If the numbers are not moving by then, we change the plan or send you to someone who fits better.
Care we provide
Conditions we adjust for most on Roswell Road
Six complaints account for the large majority of the schedule. Each one has its own exam sequence and its own idea of what better should look like by week three.
Neck, shoulder & desk posture
Cervical stiffness and mid-back tightness from long hours on a laptop, including the workstation changes that keep it from returning.
Read the detailHeadaches from the upper spine
Cervicogenic and tension headaches traced back to the top three vertebrae and the jaw, treated with gentle upper-cervical work.
Read the detailAuto injury & whiplash
Documentation that holds up with adjusters, exam findings recorded from day one, and care paced to how the neck actually settles.
Read the detailSports strains & overuse
Golfers off Chastain, tennis shoulders and runners with hip drop. Adjusting the restricted joint, then loading it so it holds under speed.
Read the detailPregnancy & postpartum
Side-lying and pelvic-block techniques through all three trimesters, plus the rib and wrist complaints that arrive with a newborn.
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Fees, up front
What an adjustment here actually costs
Self-pay starting points, posted so you can plan. Insurance is verified before your first appointment, so the figure you hear at the desk is the figure on the receipt.
New patient intake
60 minutes — history, exam, first adjustment
from $95self-pay
Treatment session
45 minutes — hands-on care with Dr. Kuhlman
from $55self-pay
Progress re-check
20 minutes — measurements repeated, plan adjusted
from $65self-pay
Maintenance plan
Four visits a month for necks and backs that need holding
from $180per month
In network with most major Georgia carriers, including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare. Send your member ID with a visit request and the front desk quotes your copay before you drive over. Personal injury and workers’ comp are billed directly.
The practice
“I would rather see you eight times and be finished than see you every week forever.”
Rick Kuhlman, DC — owner since 2004
Roswell Road has sent us patients since 2004
The practice started in a two-room suite a block north of where it sits now, with one table and a waiting room that held four people. Twenty-two years later it is the same doctor, the same street, and a fair number of patients who first came in with a sore neck and now bring their adult children.
Nothing about the care is trend-driven. Dr. Kuhlman adjusts, prescribes a small amount of homework, measures whether it worked, and says so plainly when chiropractic is not the answer — which is why the orthopedists and physical therapists nearby keep sending people over.
- Doctor of Chiropractic, Life University — Marietta, GA
- Licensed by the Georgia Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- Diversified, drop-table and instrument adjusting
- Personal injury and workers’ comp documentation
- Imaging referral partner one mile up Roswell Rd
Ready to have it looked at properly?
Send one request. The desk calls back with the two closest openings and your verified copay — usually within a business hour.
By the numbers
The part of Buckhead we know by name
22
Years at this practice
One owner, one block of Roswell Rd, open since 2004.
9 min
Median wait
Across last year’s weekday appointments, front door to table.
3
Adjusting techniques
Chosen from the exam, not from habit or a package.
1 mile
To imaging
X-ray and MRI partner close enough to go the same day.
Set expectations
Two ways a spine appointment can go
Both exist in this city. It is worth knowing which one you are booking before you hand over a copay.
The ten-minute pop-in
- Same adjustment for every patient on the schedule
- Films before anyone has touched your back
- A twelve-month package signed on day one
- Copay explained after the visit, if at all
- Progress described as “feeling better”
An appointment at The Chiropractic Center
- Technique picked from your exam findings
- Imaging referred only when a finding calls for it
- Six to eight visits, then a written re-exam
- Benefits verified before you drive over
- Range of motion in degrees, compared week to week