Same-week Chiropractic on Plaza Drive in Highlands Ranch Town Center, inside a clinic that also has Physical Therapy and Pain Management physicians — so the second opinion is a few steps away rather than a fortnight away.
Same-week appointments.
Colorado is a direct access state. No referral, no gatekeeper, no waiting for someone else's permission to be examined.
Patients travel to this clinic from Westridge, Northridge and Wolhurst.
Open Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Friday 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Call (720) 749-5599 on the way and the paperwork will be waiting.
Lawrence Elwell, DC provides Chiropractic care at our Highlands Ranch clinic. Seeing the same chiropractor every visit means someone who knows your case — who remembers what your second visit felt like, and who will notice when the pattern is not changing the way it should.
Highlands Ranch has a lot of seated work and a lot of driving attached to it. The commonest presentation through this door is not a dramatic injury; it is a neck and upper back that feel fine at nine and are unbearable by mid-afternoon, often with a headache that starts at the base of the skull.
That headache pattern is worth naming because it is so often treated as migraine for years. Cervicogenic headache comes from the joints and muscles of the upper neck, is reproducible on examination, and responds to manual work and postural correction in a way that migraine does not.
The other half of the caseload is recreational and youth sport — rotational low back pain in young athletes, shoulders that have thrown too much, knees after a growth spurt.
These need examining rather than resting. Overuse injuries in a growing athlete that get labeled as growing pains are the ones that come back a decade later, and the point of an examination is to distinguish the two.
You are examined before you are treated: range of motion, orthopedic testing, neurological screening where symptoms travel into an arm or leg.
The question being answered is whether this is a joint restriction that manual work will fix, a disc under load that needs a different approach, a nerve root with genuine neurological signs, or something that should not be adjusted at all. Where imaging is indicated first, we can order it here.
Diversified manual adjustment; Activator instrument-assisted adjustment for anyone who would rather not be thrust manually; drop-table (Thompson) technique; soft-tissue and myofascial work; and home exercise, which is usually what holds the gains between visits. Spinal decompression and dry needling are available as modalities alongside adjusting.
Jennifer Keep, DPT covers Physical Therapy in this clinic and Pain Management is provided by Hanna Kozina, PA-C and Alison Smith, PA-C.
So when the examination finds something manual care will not fix, the handover is internal: same clinic, same chart, no second intake, no month of waiting to be seen by someone who then asks you the same eleven questions.
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 Highlands Ranch clinic accepts 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 verified before the first visit, so the cost is known 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.
640 Plaza Dr, #270, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 — Highlands Ranch Town Center, parking on site.
Serving Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Lone Tree and Douglas County. For medical pain care at the same address, see Pain Management in Highlands Ranch. Unsure which you need? Read the chiropractor versus physical therapist comparison.
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.
No — Colorado permits direct access. Some plans require one for coverage, which we verify with your benefits.
Yes. Youth sports injuries are a regular part of this clinic's work.
Usually, once you have been examined.
Yes. Instrument-assisted and drop-table techniques are both available — just say so.
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. See Chiropractic care after a car accident.
Yes. Chiropractic, physical therapy, pain management and acupuncture all run on one chart at Mountain View Pain Center, so if your care needs to move between them your providers already have your history, your imaging and your notes. You do not need a new referral to add a service.
Appointments are usually available within the same week. Book online or call the Highlands Ranch clinic and the front desk will find the first opening that fits your schedule. You do not need a referral from another provider to be seen.
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.
Chiropractic patients in Highlands Ranch are seen by named, credentialed clinicians, and you can read about each of them before you book. By clinic: Highlands Ranch — Lawrence Elwell, 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.
