Curtis Osabuohien is a board certified family nurse practitioner at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Chandler. He began in healthcare as a certified nursing assistant, worked as a registered nurse and charge nurse on a medical-surgical unit, and completed his Master of Science in Nursing at Indiana State University. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Dixie State University – Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Indiana State University – Master of Science in Nursing. Curtis is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner who is originally from the Philippines. He has since lived in California, Utah, and now Arizona. Prior to becoming an NP, he started his career working as a Certified Nurse Assistant for 6 years at St. George Regional Hospital. He then transitioned to a Registered Nurse where he took on a role of a Charge Nurse on the Medical-Surgical unit. He later went on to receive his M.S. in Nursing and became a certified Family Nurse Practitioner. His favorite part of being an NP is being able to help patients heal effectively and resume their normal activities. Outside of work, Curtis enjoys hiking, fishing, weightlifting, reading, and traveling.
Curtis did not start as a nurse practitioner. He spent six years as a certified nursing assistant, which is the job of physically helping people who cannot help themselves, then worked as a registered nurse and as a charge nurse on a medical-surgical floor before going back for his master’s. That is a long apprenticeship in what pain actually does to a person over a day and a night, rather than in what it looks like in a fifteen-minute appointment.
It tends to show in the specifics he asks about. Not only where it hurts and how much, but what it stops you doing, which position you have given up on, how the night goes, and what you have already tried that did not work. Those answers do more to shape a plan than a number between one and ten, and they are the ones a patient is rarely asked for.
The problems he sees most are lower back pain, neck pain, sciatica, herniated disc and sacroiliac joint pain.
Curtis’s visits start with an examination and a diagnosis. The 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 Mesa or Westgate in Glendale, which are the Arizona 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.
Curtis sees patients at Chandler. That page lists the address, the hours and what a first visit involves.
For the rest of the team, see the Arizona Pain Management providers page.
No referral is needed to be seen for Pain Management at Mountain View Pain Center, though some plans want one on file, which our team checks when they verify your benefits. In Arizona, AHCCCS is accepted for Pain Management — it is not accepted for Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. Benefits are verified before your first visit so the number is known in advance rather than after.
Availability changes from week to week, so the honest answer is to ask. Request an appointment online and say you would like to see Curtis, or call the Arizona number and our team will tell you what is open at Chandler. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
No. Mountain View Pain Center does not require a referral for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. Some insurance plans want one on file regardless, which our team checks when they verify your benefits before your first visit.
Evaluation, medication management and ongoing care happen at Chandler. Image-guided procedures are performed in office at our Mesa and Westgate clinics, so if one is the right next step it is scheduled there and stays on the same chart.
In Arizona, AHCCCS is accepted for Pain Management. It is not accepted for Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. Our team verifies your benefits before your first visit.
Your insurance card, a list of the medications you take, and any imaging and reports you already have. Imaging is read alongside the examination rather than in place of it, and bringing the report as well as the images saves a repeat scan more often than people expect.
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. Arizona scheduling runs through one number for every Arizona clinic: (602) 325-2024.
