Deer Valley and North Phoenix sit on the I-17 corridor, Peoria is on Thunderbird Road, Glendale is at Westgate on 91st Avenue, and Mesa and Chandler cover the East Valley. Each runs the full service line.
Low back pain takes several visits, and in a metro this size the commute is what decides whether people finish the course. The clinic on your side of the Loop 101 is nearly always the right answer.
The label covers several distinct problems. Facet joints tend to hurt on extension and early in the day. A disc tends to hurt on sitting and forward bending. The sacroiliac joint produces one-sided pain low down. Muscle guarding sits on top of any of them.
The first appointment is spent establishing which, because the treatment that helps one does very little for another. That is also why the plan is written after the examination rather than before it.
Summer matters here. Three months of indoor inactivity takes the endurance out of a trunk that was just about coping, and a lot of the low back pain seen in the autumn is that story. Part of the plan is how to keep loading through the heat.
Where conservative care has not been enough, the next step follows the examination: medial branch blocks and then radiofrequency ablation for facet joints, an epidural steroid injection where a nerve root is involved, a joint injection for the sacroiliac joint.
These are performed in office at Mesa or at Westgate, both of which have fluoroscopy on site. You go to whichever is on your side of the valley, and the physician who examined you is the one who performs it.
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 visit.
Back pain from a collision is billed to med-pay, to a lien where an attorney is involved, or to a health plan. No referral is needed and appointments are usually available within the same week.
The general low back pain page goes further, and so do Pain Management in Phoenix and Chiropractic care in Phoenix.
Other Phoenix pages by complaint: sciatica treatment in Phoenix, herniated disc 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 or Chandler.
Often because three months of indoor summer inactivity has taken the endurance out of the trunk.
For Pain Management only.
In office at Mesa or at Westgate. Both have fluoroscopy on site, so nobody crosses the valley for a procedure.
By pattern. Extension and morning pain point at the facet joints, sitting and bending at a disc, and one-sided low pain at the sacroiliac joint.
Not at the start for most people. It is ordered when there is weakness, when a course of care has not helped, or when a procedure needs a target confirmed.
No, for any of the services. Appointments are usually available within the same week.
Prolonged rest usually slows recovery. Graded movement inside limits that do not flare it is what shortens an episode.
Mountain View Pain Center treats low back pain across the Phoenix metro, with Pain Management, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture in the same clinic and on the same chart.
