The clinics serving this city sit north, east and south. InterQuest is at 10807 New Allegiance Drive off the InterQuest Parkway exit; Academy is at 3204 N Academy Boulevard; Tenderfoot is at 1230 Tenderfoot Hill Road in the south of the city.
People from Monument, Gleneagle and Woodmoor come down to InterQuest. The east side and the Powers corridor use Academy. Fountain, Security-Widefield and Fort Carson come north to Tenderfoot. Each runs Pain Management, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture under one roof.
The outer ring of a disc tears and the soft center presses outward against a nerve root. The symptoms then appear wherever that nerve travels, which is why a low back problem is felt as a leg problem and why treating the leg achieves nothing.
The useful signal is the pattern rather than the severity. Symptoms in a band below the knee, numbness in one patch of skin, and weakness in a single movement point at a disc. Pressure-raising movements — a cough, a sneeze, getting up out of a car seat — reproduce it.
Conservative care comes first and most disc problems settle there. Chiropractic care unloads the segments either side of the herniation. Physical Therapy rebuilds the hip hinge and the loading habits that let a torn ring calm down rather than being re-irritated all day. Acupuncture is used where nerve pain is blocking the rehabilitation.
What changes the plan is weakness, not the level of pain. A foot that catches, a calf that gives out, a grip that has weakened — those findings move the timeline and bring imaging forward.
Where the nerve pain persists on a reasonable course, the Pain Management physicians place an epidural steroid injection around the affected root. In Colorado Springs that is performed in office at InterQuest, at the north end of the city off I-25.
It is an outpatient appointment and the physician who assessed you is the one who does it. The purpose is to open a window in which the therapy can be done properly; it is not a stand-alone fix.
Most major commercial plans are accepted, and most Medicare Advantage plans are in network in Colorado. Benefits are checked before you come in, so the cost is known ahead of the appointment.
A disc injury that began in a collision is billed to med-pay, to a lien where an attorney is involved, or to a health plan. Work injuries run through the carrier on the claim. No referral is needed and appointments are usually available within the same week.
Further detail sits on the herniated disc page, alongside Pain Management in Colorado Springs and Chiropractic care in Colorado Springs.
Other Colorado Springs pages by complaint: sciatica treatment in Colorado Springs, low back pain treatment in Colorado Springs, neck pain treatment in Colorado Springs, knee pain treatment in Colorado Springs and neuropathy treatment in Colorado Springs. And by procedure: epidural steroid injection in Colorado Springs, radiofrequency ablation in Colorado Springs, spinal cord stimulator in Colorado Springs, kyphoplasty in Colorado Springs (at our surgery center in Denver) and nerve block in Colorado Springs.
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.
Whichever is nearest — InterQuest in the north, Academy on the east side, Tenderfoot in the south. Each treats disc problems and each runs the full service line.
The pattern. Symptoms in a band below the knee, numbness in a specific patch, weakness in one particular movement, and pain that spikes when you cough or sneeze.
No. Bring anything you already have. An MRI is ordered when there is weakness, when a course of care has not moved it, or when a procedure needs the level confirmed.
In office at InterQuest, 10807 New Allegiance Drive, off the InterQuest Parkway exit on I-25.
The herniated material shrinks over time and the inflammation settles. That is usually what people experience as the problem resolving.
For most people, no. Progressive weakness or loss of bladder or bowel control is what changes that, and the examination looks for exactly those findings.
No. You can book directly for Pain Management, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic or Acupuncture.
Yes — med-pay, a lien where an attorney is involved, or your health plan. It is arranged at the first visit.
Mountain View Pain Center treats a herniated disc across Colorado Springs, with Pain Management, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture in the same clinic and on the same chart. No referral is needed and appointments are usually available within the same week.
