Acupuncture at Mountain View Pain Center is aimed at pain and orthopedic problems, and it sits in the same clinic as Pain Management, Physical Therapy and Chiropractic. Your acupuncturist can read the same chart as the physician who ordered your imaging.
That matters more than it sounds. Acupuncture does more as one part of a plan than as a standalone course, and being under one roof means the plan can change without a new referral or a new practice.
Dry needling targets a tight band in a muscle — a trigger point — with a thin needle to release it. It is a Western technique aimed at a specific muscular problem.
Acupuncture uses point selection along a different tradition and is usually applied to a broader pattern. Both are offered here, and which one you are a candidate for is decided at the assessment rather than in advance.
The first visit is an assessment. Expect questions about where the pain is, what it feels like, what makes it better and worse, and what you have already tried. An examination follows, and treatment usually begins the same visit.
Needles are fine — much finer than the ones used to take blood. Most people describe the sensation as a dull ache or heaviness at the point rather than a sharp pain. You rest with them in place for a while, and you drive yourself home afterwards.
Acupuncture is generally a course rather than a single treatment, and the assessment will tell you roughly how many visits to expect before you should judge whether it is working.
Coverage for Acupuncture varies more between plans than it does for our other services. We verify your benefits before the first visit and tell you what your share is likely to be, rather than leaving you to find out on a statement.
Medicare covers Acupuncture only in a narrow set of circumstances, and that rule is separate from the Chiropractic benefit. We are in network with most Medicare Advantage plans in both states, and we confirm yours specifically. If you are paying out of pocket, you are told the cost before anything is done.
No referral is needed for Acupuncture or for any of our services.
Every clinic below has Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, Acupuncture and Pain Management on one chart, so care can move between them without a new referral.
Downtown out through the north, west, south and east suburbs.
Academy, Interquest and Tenderfoot cover the north, central and south of the city.
Harmony in Fort Collins and our Greeley clinic serve Larimer and Weld counties.
Across the Valley, from the West Valley through Phoenix to the East Valley.
At any Mountain View Pain Center clinic in Colorado Springs. No referral is needed for Acupuncture or for any of our services, and appointments are usually available within the same week.
It is one of the treatments used for sciatica here, usually alongside Physical Therapy and Chiropractic care rather than on its own. Whether it suits your case is decided at the assessment, after the cause of the nerve pain has been identified.
No. Dry needling targets a trigger point in a tight muscle and comes from a Western tradition. Acupuncture selects points along a different tradition and is usually applied to a broader pattern. Both are offered.
The needles are much finer than the ones used to take blood. Most people describe a dull ache or a feeling of heaviness at the point rather than a sharp pain.
It is normally a course rather than a single treatment. The assessment gives you a rough number of visits before you should judge whether it is working, so you are not committing indefinitely.
It varies between plans more than our other services do. We verify your benefits before the first visit and tell you your likely share in advance. Medicare covers Acupuncture only in narrow circumstances, and that is a separate rule from the Chiropractic benefit.
Yes. Care after a collision is normally billed to med-pay, a health plan, or against the claim, and no referral is needed.
Whichever is closest — Acupuncture is offered at all of our Colorado Springs clinics, and they work from the same chart, so you are not locked to one.
Acupuncture is offered at every Mountain View Pain Center clinic in Colorado Springs, alongside Pain Management, Physical Therapy and Chiropractic on the same chart. No referral is needed and appointments are usually available within the same week.
