Radiculopathy is nerve pain that occurs when a spinal nerve root becomes irritated or compressed - often causing radiating pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness into an arm or leg. Symptoms can come from the neck (cervical spine) or low back (lumbar spine). At Mountain View Pain Center, we help identify what’s driving your symptoms and build a plan to reduce nerve irritation and restore function.
When to Seek Urgent Care
Seek urgent evaluation if numbness/tingling is sudden with facial droop, severe headache, slurred speech, new or worsening weakness, loss of balance, loss of bowel/bladder control, saddle numbness, fever, or rapidly worsening symptoms.
We start by mapping your symptom pattern—where symptoms travel, what triggers them, and how they affect strength and function. Your visit may include movement testing and a basic neurologic screen (strength, sensation, reflexes) to assess nerve involvement. We also evaluate the spine, hips/shoulders, and surrounding muscles to identify contributing mechanics. If findings suggest imaging or referral is appropriate, we’ll guide the next steps.
At Mountain View Pain Center, our multidisciplinary team combines evidence-based care to calm nerve irritation and improve function:
Targeted diagnostic injections and image-guided procedures when appropriate to reduce inflammation and calm irritated nerves.
Movement-based care to improve mobility, reduce nerve irritation, and rebuild stability (core/hips or neck/upper back depending on symptoms).
Hands-on care to support joint mobility and reduce muscle tension, tailored to symptoms and comfort.
A natural option to support symptom relief and relaxation, often combined with your broader plan.
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.
Not always. It can come from nerve root irritation, peripheral neuropathy, nerve entrapment (like carpal tunnel), or other causes. Evaluation helps pinpoint the source.
A nerve that is being compressed, irritated or damaged somewhere along its path. That can be at the spine, at a point further down the limb, or in the smaller nerves themselves. Where it is happening is what the examination establishes.
It is treated as more urgent, particularly when it is constant rather than intermittent, or when it comes with weakness. Pain tells you a nerve is irritated; persistent numbness suggests it is not conducting properly.
Numbness in the groin or inner thighs, loss of bladder or bowel control, numbness on one side of the body, or weakness that is getting worse. Those are emergency department findings rather than appointments.
Very often. A nerve root irritated at the spine produces symptoms in a band down the arm or leg, which is why the examination tests the whole path rather than only where the symptom is felt.
Neither to be seen here. Whether nerve testing adds anything is one of the things the examination decides, and it is arranged where it does.
Chiropractic care and Physical Therapy aimed at unloading the nerve, with Acupuncture available where it helps. Where the symptoms persist, the Pain Management physicians assess whether an interventional step is the right next move.
Usually within the same week. Appointments can be booked directly, and benefits are checked before the first visit.
Numbness & Tingling is treated at every Mountain View Pain Center clinic in Colorado and Arizona — see the full clinic map, Colorado or Arizona.
