Ben Mannisio is a Physical Therapist at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Wadsworth in Littleton. He has practiced for more than twenty years, holds a manual therapy certification and is certified in dry needling. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Dr. Ben Mannisio attended Wheeling Jesuit University where he graduated with his Master of Science of Physical Therapy in 2002 and completed his transitional Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2006. Ben is from a small town in eastern Ohio where he grew up playing football. He’s practiced Judo and Tae Kwan Do. He was drawn to Physical Therapy’s combination of science and art of healing. Ben incorporates a variety of treatment approaches and techniques accumulated from over 20 years of Physical Therapy practice to restore ability ranging from the most basic of daily functions up to return to a variety of sports. His treatment is guided by the underlying principle of actively listening to the patient as their story will guide you to the correct diagnosis and treatment. He believes the best outcomes are produced by incorporating a multi-faceted approach through a multi-disciplinary team. He is a lifelong learner completing a Manual Therapy certification in 2016 and becoming certified in Dry Needling in 2023. In his free time, Ben likes skiing, playing video games, fishing, and spending time with his family including 2 dogs and cat.
Ben’s stated working principle is that the patient’s story leads to the diagnosis, and after twenty years of practice that is less of a sentiment than it sounds. Special tests and measurements narrow things down, but they mostly confirm or rule out what the history already suggested. When the shoulder hurts reaching backwards but not overhead, when the back is fine all morning and awful after an hour in the car, when the knee complains going downstairs and not up: those details are diagnostic, and they only surface if someone asks and then stops talking.
The treatment that follows draws on a large accumulated toolkit rather than a protocol. He completed a manual therapy certification in 2016 and added dry needling certification in 2023, and he works across the whole range, from restoring the most basic daily functions after a setback to returning someone to a sport. What stays constant is that the plan is built for the person described in the history rather than for the diagnosis code.
The problems he sees most are lower back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain and sciatica.
The first appointment is an evaluation. Strength, range, control and the movements that reproduce your symptoms get measured rather than estimated, so there is a baseline to judge progress against later. You leave with an explanation of what was found and a small number of things to do between visits, which is the part that does most of the work.
Sessions combine hands-on treatment with loaded exercise, and the exercise progresses as the measurements do. Spinal decompression and dry needling are available where they fit the problem, and pelvic floor physical therapy is offered at selected clinics.
Where Physical Therapy is not the whole answer, Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Pain Management are in the same building and on the same chart, so a change of direction is a conversation rather than a new referral and another wait.
Ben sees patients at Wadsworth. That page lists the address, the hours and what a first visit involves.
For the rest of the team, see the Colorado Physical Therapy providers page, or physical therapy in your area.
Most plans cover Physical Therapy, and what varies is the visit limit, the copay and whether your plan wants a referral on file even where the state does not require one. Colorado and Arizona both allow patients to be seen without a physician referral, so the referral question here is a plan question rather than a legal one. Our team verifies your benefits before your first visit so the number is known in advance.
Availability changes from week to week, so the honest answer is to ask. Request an appointment online and say you would like to see Ben, or call and our team will tell you what is open at Wadsworth. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
A fine needle placed into a taut band of muscle to change how that muscle behaves. It is used where a muscular component is limiting progress, not routinely, and never without explaining it first. Ben has been certified in it since 2023.
Hands-on treatment of joints and soft tissue to restore movement, used alongside exercise rather than instead of it. It tends to open a window in which loading is tolerated better, and the exercise is what makes the change stick.
Not to be seen here. Colorado allows patients to see a physical therapist without a physician referral. Some plans still want one on file, which our team checks when they verify your benefits.
At our Wadsworth clinic in Littleton. Physical Therapy, Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Pain Management are all Mountain View Pain Center service lines, so if your care needs to move between them it moves on one chart.
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 runs through one number for every Colorado clinic: (720) 749-5599.
