Pain Management Doctors in Lone Tree, CO

Non-surgical pain care on Park Meadows Drive. This is the largest pain management team we run in the south metro — four providers on the medical side alone — which mostly matters because it is the difference between being seen this week and being seen next month.

Capacity Is a Clinical Feature

Shannon Khattak, PA-C, Jesse Sheldon, PA-C, Alison Smith, PA-C and Gabrielle Tingstad, PA-C cover pain management here, alongside Doug Hall, DC for chiropractic and Kale Greiner, DPT for physical therapy.

Six clinicians in one clinic sounds like an administrative detail. It is not. Pain that waits six weeks for an appointment is not the same problem six weeks later — people stop moving, sleep badly, deconditioning sets in, and what began as a mechanical issue acquires a second set of problems on top. Short waits are a clinical advantage, and staffing is how you get them.

What the First Appointment Is For

Diagnosis. Not treatment, and certainly not a procedure.

Your provider takes a history, examines you, and orders imaging where the exam justifies it — in that order, because the place it hurts is often not the structure generating it. A lumbar disc can present as hip pain. A facet joint can present as a headache. An irritated nerve root can present as a weak foot with no back pain at all.

Get that wrong and the treatment works for a fortnight at a time, indefinitely.

The South Metro Caseload

Degenerative low back pain. The largest category. The work is separating disc from facet joint from sacroiliac joint, because they present similarly and respond to different things. Where the exam and imaging agree, a diagnostic medial branch block both confirms the source and treats it.

Spinal stenosis. Common in an older catchment: leg pain and heaviness on walking that eases when you sit or lean forward. It is frequently mistaken for vascular claudication or plain sciatica, and it is managed differently from both.

Neck pain and cervicogenic headache. Headaches arising from the upper cervical spine, routinely treated as migraine for years before anyone examines the neck producing them.

Joint pain — hip, knee, shoulder. Including the recurring question of whether the joint is the problem or the spine is referring into it.

Conservative First, and Meant

Most pain treated here never requires an injection. Physical therapy with Kale Greiner, chiropractic with Dr Hall, load management and time resolve the majority, and all of it happens in this building without a new referral or a new intake.

When conservative care has had a fair run and not worked, that is a finding, not a failure — and the plan changes rather than repeating.

Interventional Options

Epidural steroid injection, medial branch block and radiofrequency ablation, sacroiliac joint injection, peripheral joint injection.

Every one of these answers a question as well as treating a symptom. A block that relieves your pain identifies the structure responsible and tells us whether ablation is worth doing. A block that changes nothing rules that structure out, which is equally useful and considerably cheaper than guessing.

Insurance, Referrals and Cost

Our Lone Tree 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 required to book. Where your plan requires one for coverage, we find that out when we verify benefits before your first visit. Call (720) 749-5599.

Getting Here

10375 Park Meadows Dr, #270, Lone Tree, CO 80124 — off Park Meadows Drive, parking on site.

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

Serving Lone Tree, Parker, Castle Pines, Centennial and south Douglas County. For walk-in adjustment, see chiropractic care in Lone Tree. Directions and clinic details are on the Lone Tree clinic page.

Lone Tree Pain Management FAQs

How quickly can I get in? Usually within the week. With four pain management providers at this location, capacity is the thing we are least short of.

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

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

Do you treat spinal stenosis? Yes, and distinguishing it from sciatica and from vascular causes of leg pain is part of the initial examination.

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