Audrey Anderson is a Physician Assistant in Pain Management at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Lowry. She worked on an inpatient neurology unit before PA school and trained on both the surgical and the non-surgical side of spine care. No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
I attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where I obtained a Bachelor of Science in education and Lincoln Memorial University in Knoxville, TN where I obtained a Master of Physician Assistant studies. I grew up in Knoxville, TN and recently moved to Denver, CO. Before attending PA school, I worked as a patient care assistant on an inpatient neurology unit. During PA school, I completed two orthopedic clinical rotations with a focus in surgical and non-surgical spine, which sparked my interest in orthopedic care. In my free time I enjoy skiing, going to sporting events, hanging out with friends and family, and being on the lake.
Before PA school Audrey worked as a patient care assistant on an inpatient neurology unit. That is where you learn what a nerve problem actually looks like from the outside — the pattern of numbness, the specific weakness, the things that change when a nerve is genuinely involved rather than irritated.
It matters because the answer changes the plan completely. Pain that radiates is not automatically nerve pain; a great deal of leg and arm pain is referred from a joint and behaves quite differently under examination. Sorting the two is most of the first appointment, and getting it wrong sends people down months of the wrong treatment.
Her PA training included two orthopedic rotations focused on surgical and non-surgical spine, so she has seen both sides of that decision rather than only the side she now works on.
The conditions she sees are lower back pain, neck pain, sciatica and nerve pain, herniated discs, arthritis and joint pain, hip pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, peripheral neuropathy and headaches and migraines.
Audrey’s visits start with an examination and a diagnosis. Her first job is working out which structure is generating the pain, because that is what decides the plan — and imaging you bring is read alongside the examination rather than in place of it.
Visits cover evaluation, medication management and ongoing pain care. Where an image-guided procedure — epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, joint injections, trigger point injections and radiofrequency ablation — is the right next step, it is scheduled at Northglenn or Interquest in north Colorado Springs, which are the Colorado clinics where those are performed in office.
Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture are in the same building, so where the answer is rehabilitation rather than a needle it is a handover rather than another referral and another wait.
Audrey sees patients at Lowry. That page lists the address, the hours and what a first visit involves.
For the rest of the team, see the Colorado Pain Management providers page, or pain management in Denver for how care works across the metro.
No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Mountain View Pain Center is contracted with Medicare and with most major commercial plans, and we also work with personal-injury liens and workers’ compensation. Our team can verify your benefits before your first visit.
Availability changes from week to week, so the honest answer is to ask. Request an appointment online and say you would like to see Audrey, or call the Colorado number and our team will tell you what is open at Lowry. No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
At our Lowry clinic in Denver. Lowry is not one of the four clinics where image-guided procedures are performed, so if one turns out to be the right next step it is scheduled at Northglenn or Interquest.
No. Pain Management at Mountain View Pain Center does not require a referral, and neither do Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. If your own plan requires one, our team will tell you when they verify your benefits.
Mountain View Pain Center is contracted with Medicare and with most major commercial plans, and we also work with personal-injury liens and workers’ compensation. Our team can verify your benefits before your first visit.
Not necessarily, and it is one of the most useful things to sort out early. Pain that radiates can come from an irritated nerve root, but it can also be referred from a joint or from the muscles and tissue around it, and the two behave differently under examination. Numbness in a specific distribution, or weakness you can demonstrate, points at the nerve. Aching that spreads without either usually does not.
Day or night, seven days a week — and we’ll text you back to get you scheduled. No referral is needed, and our goal is to see you within the same week. Colorado scheduling: (720) 749-5599.
