The Phoenix metro is covered from Deer Valley at 20414 N 27th Avenue and North Phoenix at 2222 W Dunlap Avenue along the I-17 corridor, Peoria on Thunderbird Road, Glendale at 6622 N 91st Avenue by Westgate, and Mesa and Chandler in the East Valley.
Distance is the real constraint here. A disc needs several visits in the first month, and a forty-minute drive each way is the most common reason people stop coming before the rehabilitation has done anything. Pick the one on your side of the Loop 101.
The outer ring of the disc tears; the soft center pushes out; a nerve root gets crowded. Everything that nerve supplies then reports the problem, which is why people describe a leg or an arm rather than a back or a neck.
Severity is a poor guide. What identifies a disc is the shape of the complaint — a band of symptoms below the knee or the elbow, numbness confined to one patch, weakness in a single movement, and a spike when you cough, sneeze or strain.
All of it runs in one building from one chart, so the plan can change the same week the symptoms do.
Where nerve pain persists, an epidural steroid injection is placed around the affected root. In this metro it is performed in office at Mesa or at Westgate, both of which have fluoroscopy on site.
Mesa and Westgate both host procedures because the valley is too wide for one site. The East Valley goes to Mesa and the West Valley goes to Westgate. It is an outpatient appointment, performed by the physician who examined you, who also sees you afterwards.
Imaging is arranged ahead of that step when the level has to be confirmed, and skipped when it does not change anything.
Most major commercial plans are accepted and most Medicare Advantage plans are in network in Arizona. AHCCCS is accepted for Pain Management only. Benefits are verified before the first appointment.
A disc injury from a collision is billed to med-pay, to a lien where an attorney is acting, or to a health plan. Whether a change seen on a scan is new is addressed clinically in the record rather than asserted. No referral is needed and appointments are usually available within the same week.
Related reading: herniated disc, and the Pain Management in Phoenix and Chiropractic care in Phoenix pages.
Other Phoenix pages by complaint: sciatica treatment in Phoenix, low back pain treatment in Phoenix, neck pain treatment in Phoenix, knee pain treatment in Phoenix and neuropathy treatment in Phoenix. And by procedure: epidural steroid injection in Phoenix, radiofrequency ablation in Phoenix, spinal cord stimulator trials in Phoenix, kyphoplasty in Phoenix and nerve block in Phoenix.
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.
The one on your side of the Loop 101. Deer Valley, North Phoenix, Peoria, Glendale at Westgate, Mesa and Chandler all treat disc problems.
Those are the Phoenix-metro clinics with fluoroscopy on site. Having one on each side of the valley means nobody drives across the metro for a procedure.
From the pattern — a band of symptoms below the knee or elbow, numbness in one patch, weakness in a single movement, and a spike on coughing or sneezing.
For Pain Management only.
Most people will not. Progressive weakness, or loss of bladder or bowel control, is what changes that conversation.
No. It is ordered when there is weakness, when a course of care has not helped, or when a procedure needs the level confirmed.
Enough that the drive matters — which is the main reason to pick a clinic close to you rather than the one you have heard of.
Yes. Med-pay, a lien where an attorney is involved, or your health plan, set up at the first visit.
Mountain View Pain Center treats a herniated disc across the Phoenix metro, with Pain Management, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture in the same clinic and on the same chart.
