Chiropractor in Denver, CO

Three chiropractic clinics inside the city, five chiropractors between them, all working inside medical pain practices. Walk in without a referral.

Three Denver Clinics — Which One

Downtown — 789 Sherman St, #315, Denver, CO 80203, in the Golden Triangle just south of the Capitol. Alexa Brady, DC and Nathan Peterson, DC both practise here, which is why this is the location most likely to fit you in on the day you call. Convenient for Capitol Hill, Baker, Speer and anyone working downtown.

Lowry — 63 North Quebec St, #300, Denver, CO 80230. Ricardo Sauceda, DC and Brittany Daniel, DC. Serves Lowry, Hilltop, Mayfair, Montclair and east Denver generally.

Central Park — 4660 Yosemite St, #200, Denver, CO 80238. Grant Johnson, DC. Best for Central Park, Park Hill, Northfield and the north-east side.

All three share a record system. If the clinic nearest you is booked and another can see you this afternoon, moving costs you nothing — the notes travel with you.

No Referral Required in Colorado

Colorado is a direct access state. You do not need a physician's referral to be examined or treated by a chiropractor, and you do not need to wait for an insurer to approve anything first.

All three clinics open Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Friday 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Call (720) 749-5599 and we will tell you which of the three can see you soonest.

What the Examination Is Actually For

An adjustment delivered without an examination is a guess dressed up as treatment.

Before anything is adjusted you are examined — range of motion, orthopaedic testing, and neurological screening when symptoms travel into a limb. The examination sorts your problem into one of several categories that look identical to the patient and are treated completely differently: a restricted joint, a disc under load, a nerve root with genuine neurological compromise, or something that belongs to a different specialty altogether.

Where imaging should come first, we order it rather than adjusting and hoping.

Techniques

Diversified manual adjustment; instrument-assisted adjustment where a manual thrust is unwanted or unwise; drop-table technique; flexion-distraction for disc-related low back pain; soft-tissue and myofascial work; and home exercise, which is usually what holds the progress between visits.

Selection follows from your examination.

The Denver Caseload

Desk and commute. The dominant pattern in a city with this much seated professional work: neck and upper back pain that builds through the day, headaches beginning at the base of the skull, and one shoulder blade that aches more than the other. The headaches in particular are worth examining rather than medicating indefinitely — cervicogenic headache is reproducible on testing and is not migraine.

Altitude and the weekend. Denver's specific problem is a population that sits still all week and then goes hard at 5,280 feet on Saturday. Low back and knee complaints that follow a big weekend after a sedentary week are not a mystery, and they respond well to load management alongside manual care.

Car accident injuries, treated and documented for the claim. All three clinics handle auto and lien cases.

Low back pain and sciatica, where the work is establishing whether the leg pain comes from a disc, the facet joints, the sacroiliac joint or the piriformis, because those four are treated differently and are routinely treated the same.

When It Is Not a Chiropractic Problem

All three Denver clinics have physical therapy and pain management providers in the same suite.

So when an examination turns up something manual care will not fix, the referral is internal: same building, same chart, no repeat intake, no six-week wait to explain your history to someone new. If a diagnostic block is needed to identify the joint responsible, that can happen where you already are.

Insurance and Cost

All three Denver clinics accept Aetna, ASH (American Specialty Health), Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (Pathway), Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, OptumCare, Optum Physical Health, Humana, Medicare, Colorado Medicaid, Devoted Health, First Health, Columbine, Tricare, ATA Holista, workers' compensation and auto/lien cases.

Benefits are verified before your first visit so the cost is known in advance. Call (720) 749-5599.

Also in Denver

For medical pain care — diagnostic workup, injections, nerve blocks — see pain management in Denver. Deciding between practitioners? Read the chiropractor versus physical therapist comparison.

Denver Chiropractor FAQs

Which of the three should I choose? Downtown for the city centre, Lowry for east Denver, Central Park for the north-east. Call and we will tell you which is closest and which has the earliest opening.

Do I need a referral? No. Colorado permits direct access. Some plans require a referral for coverage rather than access, which we verify with your benefits.

Can I walk in? Yes. Downtown has two chiropractors on site, so it usually has the most same-day capacity.

Will I be adjusted at the first visit? Usually, after an examination.

Can I be treated without a manual thrust? Yes — instrument-assisted and drop-table techniques are available at all three.

Do you take Colorado Medicaid? Yes, along with Medicare, Tricare, workers' compensation and auto/lien cases.

Can you treat me after a car accident? Yes. See chiropractic care after a car accident.