Dr. Jonathan Scudder is a Chiropractor at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Harmony in Fort Collins. He grew up in Juneau, Alaska, studied biomedical science at Nazareth University and earned his Doctor of Chiropractic at Northeast College of Health Sciences, where he served as a student representative for the Motion Palpation Institute. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Dr. Jonathan Scudder grew up in the small town of Juneau, Alaska. After high school, he moved to New York to attend Nazareth University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science. He then completed his Doctorate of Chiropractic at Northeast College of Health Sciences. During his time in Chiropractic school, he served as a student representative for the Motion Palpation Institute (MPI) and attended many of their seminars. In addition to his work with MPI, he holds certifications in various soft tissue techniques and Mechanical Diagnosis Therapy. Dr. Scudder treats every patient as an individual, creating customized care plans tailored to each patient’s needs. He uses Diversified, Thompson Drop, and Activator adjusting methods alongside various soft tissue techniques to identify and address the root cause of each patient’s condition. When he’s not in the office, you can find him hiking, golfing, or exploring small mountain towns around Colorado.
Dr. Scudder is certified in Mechanical Diagnosis Therapy, and the idea behind it is worth knowing even if you never see him. Many back and neck problems have a directional preference: repeated movement one way makes the pain retreat toward the spine and the leg symptoms ease, while the opposite direction spreads it further down the limb. Finding which direction yours prefers is done by testing, not by guessing, and it changes what the patient does at home far more than it changes what happens on the table.
It also answers a question people arrive with, which is whether to stretch into the pain or stay away from it. The honest answer is that it depends on the direction, and that one of the two will make things worse. Alongside that, he adjusts with Diversified, drop-table and Activator technique and works on the soft tissue around the segment. His training with the Motion Palpation Institute is essentially training in feeling which joint has stopped moving, which is the step before deciding to do anything to it.
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. Scudder sees patients at Harmony in Fort Collins. 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. Scudder, or call and our team will tell you what is open at Harmony. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
It depends which direction, and that is testable rather than a matter of opinion. Many low back problems improve with repeated movement one way and get worse the other way, and the leg symptoms are the guide: pain moving up toward the spine is progress, pain moving further down the leg is not.
It changes what is being watched. Leg symptoms that retreat toward the back over a few days are a good sign. Symptoms moving further down, or new weakness or numbness, are a reason to be reassessed promptly, and Pain Management is in the same practice when that is what is needed.
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.
