Clinics inside Denver, and more across the metro.
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Mountain View Pain Center’s Pain Management specialists provide board-certified, non-surgical pain care across the Denver metro, with Physical Therapy and Chiropractic in the same clinic, so your treatment is coordinated under one roof. We treat back pain, neck pain, sciatica, herniated discs, neuropathy, arthritis, and joint pain using image-guided injections, nerve blocks, and other minimally invasive options when appropriate. Curious what kind of doctor treats pain without surgery? Learn what a physiatrist is.
Spanish-language communication is available at every clinic through real-time translation.
Our Denver-area clinics include Central Park, Downtown Denver, and Lowry, plus nearby Northglenn, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Aurora, and Lone Tree. Most major insurance accepted, with same-week appointments. Request an appointment today. Hurt in a crash? Our car accident injury treatment in Denver includes same-week visits and lien cases are OK.
Same-week appointments are typically available.
Most pain journeys in Denver look the same. Your primary care doctor refers you to a pain specialist. The pain specialist refers you to Physical Therapy across town. Physical Therapy suggests Chiropractic. Four weeks disappear into scheduling, and every handoff loses a little more of your story.
Image-guided injections and interventional procedures are performed on site at our Northglenn clinic, and spine injections are also performed at Lowry on specific days. Joint and trigger point injections are performed at every clinic. Our other Denver-metro clinics schedule procedures there or at our surgery center.
Mountain View Pain Center was built to remove the handoffs. Our Denver clinics house board-certified Pain Management physicians, licensed physical therapists, chiropractors and acupuncturists under one roof, working from one shared treatment plan. Your physician can see what your physical therapist documented that morning. Your chiropractor knows which spinal levels your imaging flagged. When something is not working, the plan changes that week, not at the next referral.
That coordination is also why our care is deliberately opioid-conscious. Image-guided procedures and hands-on rehabilitation come first. Medication management is one tool among several, not the strategy.
Already been told you need surgery? Get a second opinion on a surgery recommendation: our physicians review the non-surgical, in-office options first.
1. Evaluation. A board-certified physician takes a full history, examines you, and reviews any imaging you already have. If you are not sure what kind of specialist you need, this explanation of what a physiatrist is is a good place to start.
2. Diagnosis. If we need imaging or a diagnostic injection to identify the true pain generator, we order it. We do not treat a guess. Our guide to when an MRI is actually useful for back pain explains how we decide.
3. Your plan. You leave your first visit knowing which disciplines you will see, how often, and what improvement should look like.
4. Coordinated treatment. Physical Therapy, Chiropractic, Acupuncture and interventional procedures: scheduled together, in one building, wherever possible.
We treat:
Among many other conditions.
Conditions we treat in Denver:
Low back pain is the single most common reason people book with our Denver clinic. The examination comes first: we want to know whether the pain is coming from a disc, a facet joint, the sacroiliac joint, or muscle and movement patterns, because each of those responds to something different. Facet-mediated pain that worsens with extension is not treated the same way as a disc that hurts when you bend forward.
If conservative care is the right starting point, you begin with Physical Therapy or Chiropractic in the same building. If imaging and the exam point to a specific pain generator, a diagnostic medial branch block or epidural steroid injection both confirms the source and treats it. Read more about lower back pain and upper back pain, or when an MRI is actually useful.
Neck pain in Denver patients most often traces to cervical facet joints, a disc, or a nerve root, and sometimes to headaches that start at the base of the skull and are mistaken for migraine. We examine range of motion, neurological signs in the arm and hand, and provocative testing before deciding on treatment.
Cervical radiculopathy with arm symptoms is treated differently from mechanical neck pain that stays local. Options run from therapy and manual care through cervical epidural or medial branch injection. See our neck pain page for how each of these is diagnosed.
Which Denver clinic? Choose the one closest to you. Downtown Denver is on Sherman Street and serves Downtown, LoDo, Capitol Hill, RiNo, Five Points, Baker and the Golden Triangle. Central Park is on Yosemite Street and serves Central Park, Stapleton, Park Hill, Northfield and northeast Denver. Lowry is on North Quebec Street and serves Lowry, Hilltop, Mayfair, Montclair, Glendale and east Denver.
Already tried Physical Therapy or Chiropractic? Physical Therapy and Chiropractic are in the same building as Pain Management, so the next step does not mean another office across town. A board-certified physician takes a full history, examines you, and reviews any imaging you already have. Pain Management isn’t the whole answer here; it’s how we get your pain under control so you can do more of the therapy that fixes the problem.
How long is too long? If back or neck pain isn’t clearly getting better after a week or two, or it keeps coming back, it’s time to get it checked.
Do I need a referral? Most patients can schedule directly, without a referral. Some insurance plans require a referral for coverage, not for the appointment, which is exactly the sort of thing we check for you in advance. Call (720) 749-5599 and we will confirm before you come in.
Pain that runs from the low back into the buttock and down the leg is a symptom, not a diagnosis. In Denver we see it caused by a lumbar disc pressing on a nerve root, by spinal stenosis narrowing the canal, and by piriformis or SI joint problems that mimic it. Treating all three the same way is why sciatica so often fails to resolve.
We localise the level, then treat it: transforaminal epidural injection for a confirmed radiculopathy, targeted therapy for the rest. More on sciatica and nerve pain and herniated disc.
Rotator cuff tendinopathy, impingement, adhesive capsulitis and cervical referral all present as shoulder pain, and the examination separates them. In Denver we test the cuff directly, screen the neck, and image when the findings warrant it instead of by default.
Depending on what we find, care may be therapy-led, or start with a subacromial or glenohumeral injection to break the pain cycle so therapy can work. See shoulder pain treatment.
Hip pain sends people to the wrong specialist more than almost any other complaint, because hip joint pain, greater trochanteric pain, SI joint dysfunction and lumbar referral overlap. Groin pain usually means the joint; lateral pain usually does not.
Our Denver evaluation distinguishes them before treatment, which may include therapy, image-guided intra-articular or bursal injection, or SI joint treatment when that is the true source.
Depending on your diagnosis, your Denver pain specialist may recommend epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation, joint injections, trigger point injections, or other minimally invasive procedures. Always paired with rehabilitation so relief lasts. Learn more about our Pain Management approach.
A few things worth knowing about how these are used:
Non-surgical spinal decompression on a traction table is available at every one of our Denver-area clinics. It is delivered under Chiropractic care, not by the Pain Management physicians, and Medicare does not cover it, so we quote you the cost before you start.
If you are weighing a procedure against an operation, our comparison of a herniated disc injection versus surgery lays out the trade-offs honestly.
Every Mountain View Pain Center clinic in Denver offers all four disciplines, which is unusual. It means your plan can shift between them without a new referral or a new waiting list.
Not sure which you need? Our comparison of a chiropractor versus a physical therapist is the plain-English version.
We also see patients from Arvada, Castle Rock, Englewood, Parker and Westminster.
All Denver-metro clinics are open Monday through Thursday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and Friday, 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. See the full clinic map for everywhere else we practice in Colorado and Arizona.
Hip and groin pain, and what each location of pain points to: hip pain treatment.
Every Denver patient is treated by named, credentialed clinicians, and you can read about each of them before you book. The full team is on the Colorado Pain Management providers page.
Calla Lopez, AGNP-C and Kelsey Pogatetz, PA-C handle Pain Management. Grant Johnson, DC provides Chiropractic care. Cayla Enger, PTA provides Physical Therapy. William Ferguson, L.Ac provides Acupuncture.
Hailey Bojack, PA-C and Audrey Anderson, PA-C handle Pain Management. Ricardo Sauceda, DC provides Chiropractic care. Lauren Hofman, DPT and Eric McNally, DPT lead Physical Therapy with Royce Oliveira, PTA and Margaret Merkling, PTA.
Nathan Peterson, DC provides Chiropractic care. Matthew Harper, PT leads Physical Therapy with Marco Gomez, PTA.
Not sure who to book with, or which service you need first? Central scheduling at (720) 749-5599 will match you to the right provider at the closest Denver clinic. You can also browse every Colorado Pain Management provider or see the full provider directory.
We accept Aetna, Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare and Colorado Medicaid (Pain Management and Physical Therapy only), among others, and we verify your benefits before your first visit. We also treat workers' compensation cases and auto injury cases, including lien cases. Full details are on our insurance page.
Most patients can schedule directly, without a referral. Some insurance plans require a referral for coverage, not for the appointment, which is exactly the sort of thing we check for you in advance. Call (720) 749-5599 and we will confirm before you come in.
Also see Chiropractic care in Denver, Physical Therapy in Denver and car accident care.
Call (720) 749-5599 to book at a Denver-metro clinic.
Most back and neck pain improves on its own within a few weeks. It is worth being evaluated when any of the following is true:
None of these are emergencies. All of them are reasons to be seen sooner, not later, because the longer a pain pattern persists, the more the surrounding muscles, movement habits and sleep get pulled into it.
It is the question almost every new patient arrives with, and the honest answer is that it depends on what is generating the pain, which is why diagnosis comes before treatment here.
Broadly: rehabilitation is the right starting point when the problem is mechanical, and it is what makes any other treatment hold. Injections are most useful when inflammation or a specific joint is blocking your ability to do that rehabilitation, or when a diagnostic answer is needed. Surgery is appropriate for a minority of cases: progressive neurological deficit, instability, or a structural problem that has genuinely failed conservative care.
What we will not do is send you toward a procedure without first establishing that it targets the thing actually causing your pain.
Acupuncture in Denver is set out in full on the Denver Acupuncture page, including how it is sequenced with Physical Therapy and interventional care on the same chart.
Most patients can schedule directly. Some insurance plans require a referral for coverage. Call (720) 749-5599 and we will verify your benefits before your visit.
Same-week appointments are often available across our Denver-metro clinics, Monday through Thursday 8am-6pm and Friday 8am-1pm.
With metro locations from Northglenn to Highlands Ranch, most Denver-area patients are within a short drive of an MVPC clinic. See the full clinic map.
Our approach is interventional and rehabilitative first. Medication management is available where it is clinically appropriate, and it is not the default. You can read our opioid disclaimer for more.
No. Many patients only ever see one. The advantage of the integrated model is that if you do need another discipline, it is already in the building and already reading the same chart.
Yes. Our car accident injury treatment in Denver includes same-week visits, and lien cases are OK.
Photo ID, your insurance card, any prior imaging (on disc or through a patient portal), and a list of your current medications. If you were injured in a crash or at work, bring your claim number.
Plan for a full evaluation instead of a quick check-in. Your physician will take a history, examine you, review imaging, and leave you with a plan before you go.
Our Denver clinics are staffed by board-certified Pain Management physicians alongside physical therapists, chiropractors and acupuncturists. You can read about our providers before you book.
Yes (Colorado Medicaid for Pain Management and Physical Therapy only), along with most major commercial plans, workers' compensation, and auto and lien cases. We verify your specific benefits before your visit.
Central Park, Downtown Denver, and Lowry, plus suburbs across the metro.
Yes. Our focus is non-surgical, opioid-sparing care, escalating only when needed.
We accept Aetna, Anthem/BCBS, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and Colorado Medicaid (Pain Management and Physical Therapy only), among others. We verify your benefits first.
Yes. If a surgeon has recommended an operation, our pain physicians will review your history and the imaging you already have, and go through the non-surgical options first: injections, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic care and spinal decompression among them. Bring any relevant imaging to the first visit. No referral is needed to be seen.
Still have a question? Call (720) 749-5599, or request an appointment online and we will call you.
Conditions: sciatica, herniated disc, low back pain, neck pain, knee pain and neuropathy.
Procedures, performed at Northglenn, at Lowry on scheduled days, or at our surgery center (kyphoplasty at the surgery center only): epidural steroid injection, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulator and nerve block. Kyphoplasty is performed at our surgery center in Denver.
No referral is needed for any of them, and appointments are usually available within the same week.
Crash injuries are covered city by city: Lakewood, Lone Tree, Highlands Ranch, Greeley, Lafayette and Fort Collins.
And the towns beyond the city limits: Broomfield, Thornton, Windsor, Louisville and Loveland.
Pain Management at every Mountain View Pain Center clinic in Colorado and Arizona. See Pain Management or the full clinic map.
