Get checked even if you feel fine.
A car accident chiropractor evaluates and treats the neck, back and joint injuries a collision causes — including whiplash, disc irritation and pain that doesn’t show up until days later — through adjustment, rehab and imaging referral when it's needed. At Mountain View Pain Center, that care is delivered by a team on one chart: your chiropractor, physical therapist and pain physician all work from the same record, so nobody has to re-explain what happened to them.
Whether you are looking for a car accident chiropractor, an auto injury clinic or a doctor who can order imaging if the neck pain does not settle, you can start in one place. We see patients in Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Littleton, Northglenn, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Greeley and Lafayette, and across the Phoenix metro in Deer Valley, Glendale, Peoria, Mesa and Chandler.
Reviewed by the clinical team at Mountain View Pain Center. Last reviewed August 2026.
Same-week appointments are typically available.
Every Mountain View Pain Center chiropractor is trained in whiplash and auto-injury care. That is where it starts, not where it ends.
Your care is delivered by a team — board-certified Pain Management physicians, the advanced-practice providers they supervise, chiropractors and physical therapists — all working from one chart, so the record your adjuster or attorney receives is complete and consistent.
Medical transportation is available for accident patients, and it can be billed to the lien, so getting to appointments is not the thing that ends your treatment early.
Spanish-language communication is available at every clinic through real-time translation.
We coordinate with your attorney throughout treatment. If you do not have one and want one, we can help you find one.
Most people walk away from a collision feeling shaken but basically alright, and decide to wait and see.
That is usually the wrong call. Whiplash symptoms tend to show up a day or two later, once the adrenaline is gone and the soft tissue has stiffened. By then people assume the two things must be unrelated, because nothing hurt at the scene. They almost always are related.
Early treatment is the standard of care for whiplash, and getting seen in the first few days also puts a dated record in place linking your symptoms to the crash. That matters later whether or not you end up filing anything.
Most crash injuries are soft tissue injuries. The muscles, ligaments and joint capsules of the neck and back get taken past their normal range in an instant. Whiplash is the everyday name for it.
Two things happen next. The joints of the spine lose their normal glide, and the muscles around them tighten to splint the area. Left alone, that protective pattern outlasts the injury. The tissue heals short and stiff, movement stays restricted, and the pain hangs around long after the original damage has healed.
Chiropractic care interrupts that. Restoring joint movement and releasing the muscular guarding lets normal motion return while the tissue is still healing, so it heals in a working position instead of a braced one.
The evidence on whiplash surprises people: active treatment early beats rest. Getting the neck moving properly, under guidance, in the first days after a crash is associated with faster recovery and a lower chance of symptoms sticking around.
Resting up and waiting to see if it settles is the natural instinct, and it is also the thing most likely to leave you with a stiff neck six months later.
If symptoms turn up days later, that is normal. Adrenaline runs high on the day and inflammation takes time to build. It is completely typical to feel shaken but fine, then wake up 48 hours later unable to turn your head. The delay does not mean the injury is minor or unrelated. It means it is behaving exactly like a soft tissue injury.
Low-speed collisions cause whiplash more often than people expect. A bumper that barely dents absorbed less of the energy, which means more of it reached you.
We work out what is injured before we treat it. How the crash happened, which direction the impact came from, where your headrest was, whether you saw it coming. Then range of motion, orthopedic and neurological testing, and imaging where it is indicated.
Hands-on care comes first. Adjustment and soft tissue work to get the joints moving again and release the muscle guarding around them. This is the part that usually makes you feel better fastest.
Then we rebuild. As the pain settles, Physical Therapy restores strength and control. A joint that moves freely but is supported by muscle that has switched off will just get injured again, so this stage is what makes the recovery hold.
Your plan comes from your exam findings and gets reviewed as you go. When you are better, you finish.
Most people injured in a crash end up assembling their own care. A chiropractor here, a physical therapist across town, an imaging center somewhere else, and a physician who never sees any of it. Every handoff drops information.
Our chiropractors, physical therapists and Pain Management physicians share one chart. The person adjusting your neck can see what the physician found on the MRI. If conservative care is not resolving the problem, an interventional option is a conversation down the hall instead of a new referral and a six-week wait. See Pain Management.
Most uncomplicated whiplash improves substantially within six to twelve weeks, with the biggest change in the first few weeks. Milder cases clear faster. Being seen early, and staying active rather than resting, both push you toward the shorter end of that range.
If you have any of the following, get emergency care first and we will handle your recovery afterwards: loss of consciousness or confusion, a severe or worsening headache, weakness or numbness that is not improving, chest or abdominal pain, or changes to your vision or speech. These need medical imaging before any hands-on treatment. Once you are cleared, we will take it from there.
Asked another way: should I see a chiropractor or a doctor after a car accident? Both — and ideally in the same place. A physician diagnoses the injury and orders imaging. A chiropractor treats the soft-tissue and joint injuries that make up the majority of crash cases.
Splitting the two across separate practices delays care and fragments the records your claim depends on. At Mountain View Pain Center, Pain Management and car accident Chiropractic care sit in the same building and work from a single treatment plan.
Starting with Chiropractic care suits most crash injuries, because soft tissue and joint injury is what most collisions produce. Two situations are worth flagging when you book, because they change who should see you first.
You do not have to work this out yourself. Mention it when you book, and the intake puts you in front of the right person the first time.
Most crash injuries settle with Chiropractic care and Physical Therapy over a few weeks. When the pain outlasts that, or when it starts traveling down an arm or a leg, the question stops being how to treat the muscle and becomes which structure is producing the pain.
That is what interventional Pain Management answers. A diagnostic block numbs one specific structure — a facet joint, a nerve root, a disc — and the response tells us whether that structure is the source. Treatment then follows the diagnosis rather than the guess: epidural steroid injections for disc-related nerve pain, medial branch blocks and radiofrequency ablation for facet-mediated pain, and trigger point injections for myofascial pain that has not released.
Because the Chiropractic notes, the therapy notes and the physician’s findings sit in one chart, moving from one to the other does not mean repeating your history or waiting on a new referral.
Cost is the main reason people put off getting seen, so here it is straight.
Health insurance. We accept most major plans. See insurances accepted.
Med-pay. Most auto policies in Colorado and Arizona include medical payments coverage that applies no matter who caused the crash. A lot of people do not know they have it. Ask your auto insurer whether it is on your policy and for how much.
Treating on a lien. In many cases your costs can be settled out of your claim rather than paid by you up front. Ask us and we will walk you through how it works in your state.
We verify your coverage before treating, so you know where you stand before the first appointment instead of after it.
Get evaluated, even if you feel fine.
Report the collision to your auto insurer and ask specifically about med-pay.
Start active treatment rather than resting and waiting it out.
Write down symptoms, missed work and expenses as they happen.
Crash care is local. Each page below covers the corridors we see injuries from, the clinics that treat them and how the insurance works in that state.
We treat crash and injury patients at our clinics. Your chart moves with you, so you can be seen at any of them.
For state-specific detail, see car accident treatment in Denver and car accident treatment in Phoenix, or find your nearest clinic on the full map.
Treatment and the claim are two separate things. We handle our side so you can be treated while the rest is still open.
If an attorney is already involved, bring their contact details and we will work with their office directly: treatment records, imaging and the notes that document the injury. If you do not have an attorney, you do not need one to be seen here.
Bring your claim number and the adjuster’s name if you have them. If you do not have them yet, come anyway and we will work it out with you.
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.
If you have symptoms, yes. Low-speed collisions produce whiplash more often than people expect. An evaluation takes about an hour, and if nothing is wrong we will tell you.
Within the first few days where you can. Early active treatment is the standard of care for whiplash, and a prompt record is more useful than a late one.
Yes, and it does not mean they are unrelated. Delayed onset is characteristic of soft tissue injury. Tell us when the crash happened and when the symptoms began.
No. Long-standing patterns take longer to unwind, but they respond.
Depending on your situation, med-pay from your auto policy, your health insurance, or an arrangement through your claim. We check your coverage before treating.
No. You can book directly.
Physical Therapy, Acupuncture and Pain Management physicians are all in the same practice, so your care steps up without starting over somewhere new.
Yes. Your chart moves with you across every location.
Yes. Whiplash is a soft tissue and joint injury, which is what Chiropractic care addresses, usually alongside Physical Therapy as you recover.
Most uncomplicated cases improve substantially within six to twelve weeks. Being seen early shortens it.
No — they are two names for the same care. Both describe a chiropractor treating collision injuries and documenting them for a claim. What matters is whether the clinic examines and images before it treats, and whether a physician is on hand if the injury needs more than manual therapy.
In practice, yes. Personal injury covers any accident where someone else may be liable — a collision, a fall, an incident at work. The examination, the treatment and the documentation are the same; only the source of the claim differs.
Yes. After a collision we bill auto med-pay directly, or we hold the lien ourselves, so you are not paying out of pocket while the claim is open. Benefits are verified before your first visit rather than after it.
Your own uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage may apply. In Colorado insurers must offer medical payments coverage and it applies unless you rejected it in writing; in Arizona it is optional. We check what your policy actually includes before your first visit.
Yes. We coordinate with your attorney throughout treatment and send records to their office. If you do not have an attorney and want one, we can help you find one.
Yes. Medical transportation is available for accident patients, and it can be billed to the lien.
