The I-25 and Harmony Road interchange is the busiest point in the city for the kind of collision that puts people in front of us. Traffic backs from the ramps onto Harmony itself, and a driver arriving at speed into a queue produces the classic rear-end impact.
College Avenue runs the length of town and carries constant turning traffic. Timberline Road and Shields Street take the north-south commuter load. Each produces a different mix — turning and side impacts on the arterials, straight rear-enders on the freeway approach.
In a rear-end impact the seat pushes your torso forward and your head follows a fraction of a second late. That lag strains the structures at the front of the neck and compresses the joints at the back, which is the mechanism behind whiplash.
People rarely describe it as neck pain at first. It arrives as a headache starting at the base of the skull, a shoulder that will not go overhead, or a low back that objects to sitting through a working day.
Get assessed even if you feel alright, because symptoms appearing later are far easier to attribute to the collision when there is a record of your condition at the start.
Keep a short note of what changes and when. Go to an emergency department instead if there is loss of consciousness, worsening weakness, loss of bladder or bowel control, or severe pain after a high-speed or rollover crash.
The Harmony clinic serves Fort Collins, Timnath, Wellington and the Harmony corridor, running Pain Management, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture from one building and one chart.
Every Mountain View Pain Center chiropractor is trained in whiplash and auto-injury care, and works alongside board-certified Pain Management physicians and the advanced-practice providers they supervise. Medical transportation is available for accident patients and can be billed to the lien, and translation is available in any language at every visit.
Care is billed to med-pay, to an attorney lien, or to your health plan. No referral is needed and appointments are usually available within the same week.
You do not need an attorney to be treated, and where one is involved we coordinate and send records directly rather than making you collect them.
For more, see Harmony clinic, care after a car accident, whiplash and how long after a crash injuries can appear.
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 the Harmony clinic on East Harmony Road. No referral is needed.
Within the first few days. Injuries peak two to three days after impact, not on the day.
Commonly, yes. Rear-end impacts load the upper cervical joints, and the nerves supplying them share a pathway with those supplying the scalp.
Yes, and attorney liens and health plans. It is arranged at the first visit.
No. The evaluation is the same whether the collision was last night or last year.
No. Treatment does not depend on having one.
Medical transportation is available for accident patients and can be billed to the lien.
Whiplash and neck injuries, headaches coming from the neck, back injuries, shoulder and hip injuries, and nerve pain traveling into an arm or a leg.
Mountain View Pain Center treats crash injuries in Fort Collins at our Fort Collins clinic on Harmony Road. No referral is needed, care is billed to med-pay, a health plan or against the claim, and appointments are usually available within the same week.
