Kale Greiner is a Physical Therapist at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Lone Tree. He earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy at the University of Kansas and worked as a traveling therapist across a range of settings before joining the practice. His clinical interests are post-operative rehabilitation, return to sport and the active adult. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Dr. Kale Greiner graduated from The University of Kansas Medical Center with his Doctorate in Physical Therapy and his Masters in Business Administration in 2021. Kale also attended Oklahoma State University where he studied Health Education and Promotion with an emphasis on Exercise Science. Kale has his clinical interest in the active adult, post-operative, return to sports, and general orthopedic populations. Kale has had a wide variety of patient populations having been a Travel Physical Therapist prior to joining MVPC. Outisde of work Kale is traveling, spending time with his wife Alyssa and his Vizsla, and running. Kale is an avid Kansas City Chiefs fan, Sporting Kansas City Soccer fan, and enjoys cooking/eating BBQ. Kale's favorite thing about being a PT is to connect with his patients and to enable people to move better!
Surgery fixes a structure. It does not restore the strength, range and confidence that were lost before it and during the weeks after it, and that gap is what post-operative rehabilitation exists to close. It is one of Kale’s stated clinical interests, and it has its own discipline: the surgeon’s protocol sets the outer limits, tissue healing sets the pace, and the therapist’s job is to use every bit of the room those two allow without crossing either.
Before joining the practice he worked as a traveling therapist, which means he has rehabilitated the same shoulder in half a dozen different clinics under half a dozen different protocols. That breadth is useful when a patient arrives holding a sheet of paper from a surgeon they saw once, because the question is rarely whether the protocol is right, it is what to do on the days in between.
The problems he sees most are lower back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain and sciatica.
The first appointment is an evaluation. Strength, range, control and the movements that reproduce your symptoms get measured rather than estimated, so there is a baseline to judge progress against later. You leave with an explanation of what was found and a small number of things to do between visits, which is the part that does most of the work.
Sessions combine hands-on treatment with loaded exercise, and the exercise progresses as the measurements do. Spinal decompression and dry needling are available where they fit the problem, and pelvic floor physical therapy is offered at selected clinics.
Where Physical Therapy is not the whole answer, Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Pain Management 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.
Kale 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 Physical Therapy providers page, or physical therapy in your area.
Most plans cover Physical Therapy, and what varies is the visit limit, the copay and whether your plan wants a referral on file even where the state does not require one. Colorado and Arizona both allow patients to be seen without a physician referral, so the referral question here is a plan question rather than a legal one. Our team verifies your benefits before your first visit so the number is known in advance.
Availability changes from week to week, so the honest answer is to ask. Request an appointment online and say you would like to see Kale, or call and our team will tell you what is open at Lone Tree. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Yes, and it is a large part of what Kale does. Bring the operative report and any protocol your surgeon gave you. If you do not have them, our team can request them, and in the meantime the evaluation still tells us a great deal.
That is set by your surgeon and by the procedure, and it varies more than people expect. What is worth avoiding is the common pattern of waiting until the restrictions lift and then starting from a worse position than necessary, so it is worth asking early rather than assuming.
Not to be seen here. Colorado allows patients to see a physical therapist without a physician referral. Some plans still want one on file, which our team checks when they verify your benefits.
At our Lone Tree clinic in the south Denver metro. Physical Therapy, Chiropractic, 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.
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.
