Neck pain that stays in the neck and shoulders usually comes from the joints and muscles; neck pain that travels into an arm with numbness or weakness points at a nerve root instead. Those two need different treatment.
Mountain View Pain Center treats it at clinics across the Denver metro — Downtown Denver, Lowry, Central Park, Northglenn, Lakewood, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Aurora and Southlands. No referral is needed, and appointments are usually available within the same week.
Most neck pain is treated conservatively first, and most of it settles there.
Where a nerve root is involved, a cervical epidural steroid injection is the usual interventional step; where the facet joints are the source, diagnostic blocks come first. In Denver those procedures are performed in office at Northglenn. Where a clinic does not perform a procedure on site, your care is coordinated to one that does.
The first visit is an examination, not a procedure. Expect a detailed history — where the pain is, whether it travels, what it feels like, what makes it better and worse, and what you have already tried — followed by a physical examination and a plan.
Bring any imaging you have had of the area, or tell us where it was done so we can request it. That way the appointment is spent on a plan rather than on ordering a scan you have already had. You will not be given an injection at that first visit.
We accept most major insurance plans and are in network with most Medicare Advantage plans in both states. Benefits are verified before your first visit, so you know your share in advance rather than finding out on a statement.
Care after a car accident is billed to med-pay, a health plan or against the claim, and work injuries run through the carrier on the claim. If you are paying out of pocket, you are told the cost before anything is done. No referral is needed.
Read more about neck pain, Pain Management in Denver, or Chiropractic care in Denver.
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.
At any Mountain View Pain Center clinic in the Denver metro. No referral is needed for any of our services, and appointments are usually available within the same week.
Usually Chiropractic care and Physical Therapy first, with Acupuncture where pain is limiting what you can do. If that is not enough, interventional Pain Management is the next step, and in Denver those procedures are performed at Northglenn.
It depends on how long you have had it and what is causing it. The first appointment gives you a plan with a point at which it should be reassessed, so you are not left guessing.
Not usually. Imaging is ordered when the examination raises a question it can answer. If you have already had a scan of the area, bring the report.
No. The first visit is an evaluation. Interventional procedures are planned and scheduled separately, and most need prior authorization first.
We accept most major plans and are in network with most Medicare Advantage plans in both states. Benefits are checked before your first visit.
Yes. Care after a collision is billed to med-pay, a health plan or against the claim, and no referral is needed.
Whichever is closest. Our Denver clinics work from the same chart, so starting at one does not lock you out of the others.
Mountain View Pain Center treats neck pain across the Denver metro, 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.
