Gabrielle Tingstad is a Physician Assistant in Pain Management at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Lone Tree. She began her career in urgent care, treating pain in its first days, and moved deliberately to the end of the problem where it has lasted months or years. No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Gabrielle Tingstad, PA-C, was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and earned her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from Marquette University before returning home to attend Creighton University for physician assistant studies (Go Bluejays!). She began her career in urgent care, where she gained experience treating a wide range of acute conditions, before transitioning into Pain Management.
Gabrielle is passionate about building strong relationships with her patients and believes in a collaborative, team-based approach to care. She is dedicated to helping patients improve their quality of life by developing personalized treatment plans that align with their goals and needs.
Outside of work, Gabrielle enjoys spending time outdoors hiking and camping with her husband and their yellow lab, Murphy. She is also a self-proclaimed enthusiast of coffee and all things sweet.
Gabrielle started in urgent care, which is where pain arrives new: the injury from yesterday, the back that went this morning, the thing that has not yet had time to become anything else. She then moved into Pain Management, which is the opposite end of the same problem.
Having seen both ends is genuinely useful, because the treatment that is right in week one is often exactly wrong in year three, and vice versa. Rest and time work for a great deal of acute pain and are close to useless for the persistent kind, where the answer is usually graded loading and a specific diagnosis.
Urgent care also leaves you fast at the assessment that has to happen before anything else — deciding whether what is in front of you is urgent. That takes a few minutes rather than a few appointments, and it means the rest of the visit can be about the actual plan.
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.
Gabrielle’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.
Gabrielle sees patients at Lone Tree. 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 Gabrielle, or call the Colorado number and our team will tell you what is open at Lone Tree. 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 Lone Tree clinic. Lone Tree 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.
Most new back pain does settle, and waiting a week or two while staying as active as the pain allows is reasonable. What changes the answer is any of the red flags — pain after a significant fall, numbness in the saddle area, difficulty passing urine, progressive weakness in a leg, or pain with fever or unexplained weight loss — which need assessment now rather than later. Pain that is no better after a few weeks is also worth an examination rather than more waiting.
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.
