Our clinics in Aurora, east and southeast.
Our Aurora Chiropractic clinics, both inside medical pain practices, both booking same-week appointments. Which one you want depends on which side of the city you are on.
Same-week appointments are usually available.
Southlands (East Aurora) — 6155 S Main St, #220, Aurora, CO 80016, off South Main Street in the Southlands center. This is the one for Southlands, Tallyn's Reach, Blackstone and anyone coming in off E-470 from the east.
Patients travel to this clinic from Southlands, Cornerstar, Saddle Rock and Smoky Hill.
Briarwood (South Aurora) — 15901 E Briarwood Cir, Suite 150, Aurora, CO 80016, off South Arapahoe Road. Kevin Ryan, DC treats here. Better for Saddle Rock, Piney Creek, Smoky Hill and the Arapahoe Road corridor.
They are about fifteen minutes apart and share a chart system, so if one has an opening today and the other does not, taking the earlier appointment costs you nothing.
Colorado is a direct access state, which means you can be examined and treated by a chiropractor without a referral from a physician, an insurer or anyone else.
Our clinics are open Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Friday 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Call (720) 749-5599, tell us which location suits you, and the intake will be done before you arrive.
This is the part that separates a Chiropractic visit that works from one that does not.
Before anyone applies force to your spine, you get an examination: range of motion, orthopedic testing, and neurological screening whenever symptoms travel into an arm or a leg. What that examination is establishing is which of four quite different things you have — a joint restriction that manual work resolves, a disc under load that needs a different approach, a nerve root with genuine neurological findings, or something that should not be adjusted at all.
Where the findings point to imaging first, we order it. Our Aurora clinics can do that in-house rather than sending you across town to wait a week for a report.
Diversified manual adjustment. Activator instrument-assisted adjustment for anyone who would rather not have a manual thrust — a common preference and a perfectly reasonable one. Drop-table (Thompson) technique. Soft-tissue and myofascial work. Therapeutic exercise between visits, kept short enough that it might actually get done. Spinal decompression and dry needling are available as modalities alongside adjusting.
Which you get is decided by your examination, not by a protocol applied to everyone.
Car accident injuries. Aurora sits on I-225, E-470 and Parker Road, and whiplash is a steady share of this caseload. These cases need documenting as well as treating — our clinics handle auto and lien cases and write the notes your claim will need.
Commuter necks. Long drives into the Tech Center and downtown produce a recognizable pattern: neck and upper back pain that builds through the afternoon, often with a headache starting at the base of the skull. That headache is frequently treated as migraine for years. It is reproducible on examination of the upper cervical joints, and it responds to something completely different.
Low back pain and sciatica, the largest single category, and the one where the diagnosis matters most — disc, facet joint, sacroiliac and piriformis problems all produce leg pain and all need different treatment.
Work and lifting injuries, including workers' compensation cases.
Sometimes it is not, and finding that out in week one rather than week nine is the point of examining first.
Our Aurora clinics sit inside medical pain practices. Lauren Parish, DPT covers Physical Therapy at Briarwood; Pain Management providers are on site at both. So when the examination finds a confirmed radiculopathy or a joint that needs a diagnostic block, the next appointment is in the same building, with someone reading the same chart.
That is a materially different experience from being handed a referral and left to chase it.
Six patterns account for most of the chiropractic caseload here. Each has a page of its own if you want the detail behind it.
Sciatica and leg pain. A disc or a nerve root under load, not a tight muscle. The examination separates the two before anything is adjusted, because they do not respond to the same treatment.
Neck pain and stiffness. Desk posture, a night slept badly, or a collision weeks ago that never fully settled. Range of motion and neurological screening come first where symptoms travel into an arm.
Headaches that start in the neck. Cervicogenic headache is a neck problem that presents as a head problem. Treating the neck is what changes it; treating the head does not.
Middle and upper back. Between the shoulder blades, usually loading-related and usually mechanical, though rib and thoracic joints are worth ruling in or out properly.
Sport and training injuries. Return-to-activity matters as much as pain relief, so the plan is built around what you are trying to get back to rather than around a visit count.
Disc injury. Where the exam points at a disc, Chiropractic care is available here, with Physical Therapy and Pain Management in the same building if you need them.
Our Aurora clinics accept Aetna, ASH (American Specialty Health), Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (Pathway), Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, OptumCare, Optum Physical Health, Humana, Medicare, Devoted Health, First Health, Columbine, Tricare, ATA Holista, workers' compensation and auto/lien cases.
Benefits are verified before your first visit, so you know the cost before you sit down. Call (720) 749-5599.
After a collision we bill auto med-pay directly, or hold the lien ourselves, so you are not paying out of pocket while the claim is still open.
For medical pain care — injections, nerve blocks, diagnostic workup — see Pain Management in Aurora. Not sure whether you need a chiropractor or a physical therapist? The plain-English comparison is the quickest way to decide.
If you are uninsured, or your plan is one we do not take, there is a flat self-pay price for a first visit. Ask when you call.
Southlands if you are east of E-470; Briarwood if you are nearer Arapahoe Road. If you are unsure, call and we will tell you which is closer and which can see you sooner.
No. Colorado is a direct access state. Some insurance plans require a referral for coverage rather than for access — we check that when we verify benefits.
Usually within the same week, at our locations.
Usually, once you have been examined. If the findings call for imaging first, we will tell you rather than adjust and hope.
Yes. Instrument-assisted and drop-table techniques are available at our clinics — say so at the examination.
No. Chiropractic visits at our Colorado clinics are not billed to Colorado Medicaid. Medicare, Tricare, workers' compensation, auto and lien cases and most major commercial plans are accepted, and we verify your benefits before the first visit.
Yes. Our clinics handle auto and lien cases and document injuries for your claim. See Chiropractic care after a car accident.
That depends on what the examination finds and how long the problem has been going on. Your chiropractor sets out a plan after the first visit and revisits it as you go. You book visits one at a time; there is no package to sign up for. If you are not responding the way the plan expected, we say so and change the approach.
Sometimes. Headaches that begin at the base of the skull and travel forward often trace back to the upper cervical joints and the muscles around them, and those respond to treatment. The examination checks for that first, because headaches have other causes that chiropractic will not fix. More on headaches and migraines.
Medicare Part B covers manual manipulation of the spine by a chiropractor to correct a subluxation. It does not cover x-rays or acupuncture ordered by a chiropractor, and after the Part B deductible you pay twenty percent of the Medicare-approved amount. We verify your benefits before the first visit so you know what is covered. More on Medicare in Colorado.
Yes. Aetna is among the plans this clinic accepts. We verify your benefits before your first visit and tell you what the visit will cost, rather than after treatment has started.
Yes. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (Pathway) is among the plans this clinic accepts. We verify your benefits before your first visit and tell you what the visit will cost, rather than after treatment has started.
Yes. Cigna is among the plans this clinic accepts. We verify your benefits before your first visit and tell you what the visit will cost, rather than after treatment has started.
Yes. UnitedHealthcare is among the plans this clinic accepts, along with OptumCare and Optum Physical Health. We verify your benefits before your first visit and tell you what the visit will cost, rather than after treatment has started.
Medicare is among the plans this clinic accepts. We verify your benefits before your first visit and tell you what the visit will cost, rather than after treatment has started.
Our chiropractors also see patients for ongoing (maintenance) adjustments once a problem has settled. Maintenance visits are not covered by insurance, and self-pay pricing is available.
The same five problems account for most of what walks through the door. What separates them is the examination, not the adjustment.
Sciatica is a symptom rather than a diagnosis — pain traveling from the low back into the buttock and down the leg because a nerve root is irritated. The examination separates a disc pressing on that root from a piriformis or sacroiliac problem that refers pain along the same path, because the two respond to different treatment. Chiropractic care does most where the mechanics of the low back are driving it; where leg pain is severe or there is weakness, a physician in the same building can order imaging and consider an injection. More on sciatica and nerve pain.
Neck pain that follows a desk week behaves differently from neck pain that follows a collision. The examination looks at how the joints move segment by segment and whether the pain refers into the shoulder blade or down the arm. Treatment usually combines adjustment and other manual therapy with specific loading exercises. More on neck pain.
Headaches that begin at the base of the skull and wrap forward are often cervicogenic — driven by the upper neck rather than by the head itself. Those tend to respond to treating the upper cervical joints and the muscles around them. Migraine is a different mechanism and is managed differently. More on headaches and migraines.
Mid-back and shoulder-blade pain is one of the most common reasons people book a chiropractor and one of the least specific. It can come from the thoracic joints, from the ribs where they meet the spine, or from the neck referring downward — which is why the examination works out where it is coming from before anything is treated. More on upper back pain.
Running, lifting and field-sport injuries are a mechanics problem before they are a pain problem. Care here usually pairs Chiropractic care with Physical Therapy in the same clinic, so the joint restriction and the strength deficit behind it are dealt with together rather than in sequence at two addresses.
Chiropractic patients in Aurora are seen by named, credentialed clinicians, and you can read about each of them before you book. By clinic: Arapahoe — Kevin Ryan, DC; Southlands — Jeffrey Selano, DC.
Every clinician listed here has a page setting out their training, what they work with most and where they see patients. The rest of the team is on the Colorado Chiropractic providers page.
Each of these pages sets out the same two things for one problem: when chiropractic is a reasonable first step, and when it is not. The second half is the part worth reading, because knowing what would change the plan is what stops six weeks being spent on the wrong treatment.
Chiropractic Care at every Mountain View Pain Center clinic in Colorado and Arizona — see Chiropractic Care or the full clinic map.
