Dr. Mark Palazzo is a Chiropractor at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Westgate in Glendale. He came to chiropractic from clinical research and behavioral therapy, and he holds certificates in advanced neurological diagnostics and clinical nutrition alongside the doctorate. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
In 1998, Dr. Mark Palazzo brought professional Chiropractic care to the area. He earned his doctorate degree, graduating Cum Laude, from Palmer College of Chiropractic-West in San Jose, CA. Dr. Palazzo also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as Certificates in Advanced Neurological Diagnostics and Clinical Nutrition. Dr. Palazzo has worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at The Mayo Clinic and as a Behavioral Therapist at St. Luke Hospital. His experiences in these roles provided him with valuable insights into the medical field and led him to explore alternatives to the traditional drug-oriented approach to health care. He found this alternative in Chiropractic, a non-surgical profession that focuses on addressing the root causes of health issues. By combining his Chiropractic knowledge with his medical background, Dr. Palazzo is committed to educating his patients about their health concerns, ultimately helping them achieve better health outcomes.
Dr. Palazzo worked as a clinical research coordinator and as a behavioral therapist before he practiced chiropractic, and both of those jobs are mostly about protocol: what gets measured, in what order, and what you are allowed to conclude from it. He describes those years as what led him to look for an alternative to a drug-first approach, and the habit that came with him is a slow, documented first appointment.
The behavioral half matters more than it sounds. A great deal of persistent musculoskeletal pain is maintained by what someone has stopped doing because it hurt once, and a clinician who has sat on the other side of that conversation professionally tends to ask about it rather than about the joint alone.
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. Palazzo sees patients at Westgate in Glendale. 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. Palazzo, or call the Arizona number and our team will tell you what is open at Westgate. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
At our Westgate clinic in Glendale. Westgate is also one of the clinics where image-guided procedures are performed in office, so if a problem turns out to need Pain Management it is handled 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. In Arizona, AHCCCS is accepted for Pain Management only — not for Chiropractic. Our team can verify your benefits before your first visit.
Longer than most people expect, because the history comes before the adjustment. Bring the list of what you have already tried and anything you are taking — that is the part of the first visit that changes the plan most.
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.
