Dr. Joel Ryman is a Chiropractor at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Wadsworth in Littleton. He holds a degree in exercise science and earned his Doctor of Chiropractic at Southern California University of Health Sciences in 2022, after clinical work with distance runners and cross-country skiers. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Dr. Joel Ryman, D.C, was born and raised in Chino Hills, California. He graduated in 2018 from Northern Arizona University with a Bachelors degree in Exercise Science. He attended Southern California University of Health Sciences (LACC) where he received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 2022. Before receiving his Doctor of Chiropractic degree, Dr. Ryman did an internship at University of California, Irvine and a residency with a private practice clinic in Seal Beach, CA. During this 2 year period, he worked closely with all population types from long distance runners to cross country skiers. Dr. Ryman then joined The Joint Chiropractic in California in July of 2022. After working for The Joint for over a year in California he moved to Colorado with his wife. Here he continued working for The Joint until he later joined the MVPC team in September of 2024. Dr. Ryman says the best thing about being a chiropractor is the ability to see a patient’s progression through pain and discomfort, to living a more functional and pain-free life. He saw how his father, skeptical about Chiropractic at first, to inspiring his son to become what changed his life forever. If Dr. Ryman is not treating patients, you can find him spending time with his wife, Chelsea and their dog, Aspen. They all enjoy spending time hiking or snowboarding at Monarch. Dr. Joel spent a lot of time on a boat as a kid. The coolest thing he’s done countless times over is sailing to Catalina Island with his Dad. Although not all crossings were perfect, they were all certainly memorable.
Ask someone with a sore knee when it started and you often get a date. Ask a runner and you usually get a shrug. Overuse injuries accumulate, which means there is no incident to point at and no obvious thing to stop doing, and they are the kind Dr. Ryman spent his clinical training on. His internship and residency years were built around distance runners and cross-country skiers, athletes whose problems arrive through volume, cadence and terrain rather than through one bad step.
His undergraduate work was in exercise science, and it shows in where he looks. A hip that will not extend fully at the end of a stride, an ankle with ten degrees less dorsiflexion than the other one, a week where mileage rose faster than tissue can adapt. Adjusting has a real place in that, and so does saying out loud which part of your training week is the actual problem.
The problems he 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. Ryman 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 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. 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. Ryman, 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.
Very. Overuse injuries build rather than happen, which is why they are hard to date and easy to keep training through. What the examination looks for is the restriction or the load change that has been feeding it, since treating the sore spot without finding that generally buys a few good weeks and no more.
At our Wadsworth clinic in Littleton, on South Estes Street. Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, 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.
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, imaging and any therapies performed alongside the adjustment are not covered under Medicare for chiropractic, so our team goes through what is covered and what is not before your first visit rather than after it.
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.
