Pain Management Doctors in Lafayette, CO

Non-surgical pain care on Exempla Circle, on the Good Samaritan medical campus. Diagnosis before treatment, conservative care before anything invasive, and a hospital campus around us when a case needs more than a clinic can offer.

Why the Address Matters

Sitting on a medical campus changes the practical logistics of a pain workup.

When an examination points to imaging, the imaging is close. When a case turns out to need a spine surgeon, a rheumatologist or a neurologist, that referral is short and local rather than a two-month detour across the metro. And when the answer is that this is not a pain management problem at all — which happens, and matters — the next step is a few hundred metres away.

Most of what we treat never needs any of that. But knowing the escalation path is short changes how confidently you can start with conservative care.

Your Care Team

Hannah Abbe, PA-C and Emily Walter, PA-C provide pain management here, working with Doug Burson, DC for chiropractic and Rianna Roy, DPT for physical therapy, supported by our medical directors.

Four clinicians, one chart. When a plan changes, the next person to see you has read what the last one found rather than starting over.

The First Appointment

An examination, not a procedure.

History, physical examination, imaging where the findings justify it — in that order. Pain is regularly produced by a structure other than the one that hurts: a lumbar disc referring into the hip, a cervical facet joint producing a headache, a nerve root presenting as a weak foot with no back pain at all.

Skip the diagnosis and you get treatment that works for a fortnight, repeatedly, indefinitely.

What Boulder County Brings Through the Door

The east Boulder County catchment is unusually active, and the caseload reflects it.

Overuse rather than trauma. Cyclists with low back and neck pain from position rather than injury. Runners with hip and sacroiliac problems. Climbers with shoulder and elbow tendinopathy. These rarely have a dramatic onset, which is exactly why they get tolerated for months before anyone examines them.

The returning injury. The knee, shoulder or back that was managed years ago, resolved, and has come back — usually with a different mechanism than the patient assumes.

Ordinary degenerative spine pain, which is still the largest single category and still needs sorting into disc, facet joint or sacroiliac before it is treated.

Conservative Care, Then Interventional

Most pain here resolves with physical therapy, manual care, load management and time — all available in this clinic without a new referral.

When the examination and imaging agree on a structure, the interventional options are epidural steroid injection, medial branch block and radiofrequency ablation, sacroiliac joint injection and peripheral joint injection. Each is diagnostic as well as therapeutic: what happens after a block tells us whether we identified the right structure.

If we do not think a procedure will help, we will say so rather than schedule it.

Insurance, Referrals and Cost

Our Lafayette clinic accepts Aetna, ASH, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (Pathway), Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, OptumCare, Optum Physical Health, Humana, Medicare, Colorado Medicaid, Devoted Health, First Health, Columbine, Tricare, ATA Holista, workers' compensation and auto/lien cases.

No referral needed to book. Where a plan requires one for coverage, we identify that when verifying benefits before your first visit. Call (720) 749-5599.

Getting Here

300 Exempla Cir, #130, Lafayette, CO 80026 — on the Good Samaritan campus, parking on site.

Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Friday 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Serving Lafayette, Louisville, Erie, Broomfield and east Boulder County. For same-day adjustment, see chiropractic care in Lafayette. Directions are on the Lafayette clinic page.

Lafayette Pain Management FAQs

Do I need a referral? No. Some plans require one for coverage rather than for access, which we verify beforehand.

Will I be given an injection at the first visit? Usually not. The first appointment is diagnostic.

Do you treat cycling and running injuries? Yes — overuse and position-related pain is a large part of the caseload at this location.

What if I need a surgeon? Then you need a surgeon, and we will say so. Being on a medical campus makes that referral straightforward.

Do you take Colorado Medicaid? Yes, along with Medicare, Tricare, workers' compensation and auto/lien cases.