Dr. Janis Figueroa is a Chiropractor at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Dunlap in north Phoenix. She trained as a blind assessor and treating intern on a large hip osteoarthritis trial during her doctorate, and the part of the work she names first is the patient who arrives frightened of chiropractic. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Dr. Janis Figueroa believes in the body’s ability to heal itself and enjoys being a part of the healing process. She has great enthusiasm for Chiropractic care and loves helping patients get well and become pain-free. While getting her Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Janis was honored to be asked to participate as a blind assessor and treating intern in the largest extremity trial in Chiropractic’s history. The trial involved patients with hip osteoarthritis at Cleveland Chiropractic College, Los Angeles. She received honorary recognition from the Director of Research at Cleveland Chiropractic for her extensive research and dedication to the trial. Dr. Janis specializes in treating new patients who might be fearful of seeing a chiropractor. She takes extra time and makes sure patients feel safe and comfortable. She provides effective treatments and customizes the care for each patient. She holds certifications in Graston Technique and Functional Dry Needling. She enjoys manual adjusting and uses low force adjusting techniques as well. Dr. Janis has been in practice since 2010. In her free time, she enjoys camping, hiking & spending time with her husband and son.
Plenty of people arrive having decided in advance that they do not want their neck touched, usually because of something they watched rather than something that happened to them. Dr. Figueroa says she takes extra time with exactly those patients, and in practice that means the first visit is mostly examination and explanation, and the first adjustment is often instrument-assisted rather than manual.
Her research background shows up in the same place. Working as a blind assessor on a hip osteoarthritis trial means months of recording what changed without knowing which treatment a patient had — a habit of measuring rather than assuming, which is the useful instinct when someone asks whether this is working.
The problems she sees most are lower back pain, neck pain, sciatica, herniated discs, headaches and migraines and injuries after a car accident.
Three techniques are used here, and which one you get depends on you rather than on habit. Diversified is the hands-on adjustment most people picture, with the audible release. Drop-table, also called Thompson, uses a table section that drops a short distance so the force needed is much lower. Activator is a small spring-loaded instrument that delivers a single controlled impulse and no twisting at all — which is what makes it the usual choice for someone nervous, someone older, or a joint too irritable to handle more.
Two other things are available alongside: spinal decompression, a motorised traction table used for disc-related leg or arm symptoms, and dry needling for the muscular component that survives the adjustment.
The part that matters most is what happens when Chiropractic is not the answer. Physical Therapy, Pain Management and Acupuncture 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.
Dr. Figueroa sees patients at Dunlap in north Phoenix. That page lists the address, the hours and what a first visit involves.
For the rest of the team, see the Arizona Chiropractic providers page, or chiropractic care nearby for how it works locally.
No referral is needed for Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, Pain Management 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. Medicare covers spinal manipulation only — not the examination, the modalities or the therapies around it, which are billed separately. In Arizona, AHCCCS is accepted for Pain Management only — not for Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. 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 Dr. Figueroa, or call the Arizona number and our team will tell you what is open at Dunlap. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
At our Dunlap clinic in north Phoenix. Physical Therapy, Pain Management and Acupuncture are in the same building and on the same chart.
No. Chiropractic at Mountain View Pain Center does not require a referral, and neither do Physical Therapy, Pain Management or Acupuncture. If your own plan requires one, our team will tell you when they verify your benefits.
Medicare covers spinal manipulation only. The examination, the modalities and the therapies around it are billed separately and are not covered under that benefit. Our team will go through what that means for you before your first visit. In Arizona, AHCCCS is accepted for Pain Management only — not for Chiropractic.
Yes, and it is a common request rather than an awkward one. The Activator is a small spring-loaded instrument that delivers one controlled impulse with no twisting and no audible release; drop-table lowers the force needed a different way. Dr. Figueroa treats the nervous first visit as its own thing — say so when you arrive and the plan starts there.
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.
