Patricia Penrod is an Acupuncturist at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Greeley. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Patricia Penrod is a Licensed Acupuncturist with over 25 years of experience in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean acupuncture. Coming from a family lineage of practitioners, she trained extensively in classical acupuncture and herbalism and continued her education under her grandmother, a Korean-born acupuncturist who helped advance acupuncture legalization in California. Patricia has successfully treated a wide range of conditions, including chronic pain, vertigo, anxiety, infertility, post-stroke paralysis, and dermatological disorders. She brings a calm, patient-centered approach to care and is committed to helping individuals improve vitality, mobility, and overall well-being through evidence-informed, integrative treatment.
The first appointment is mostly questions and examination. Where the pain is, what it does over a day, what has already been tried, how you sleep and what else is going on, because the pattern matters as much as the location. Then the needles, which are the part people worry about and the part that surprises them: they are single-use, sterile and about the width of a hair, and most patients describe insertion as a dull heaviness or nothing at all rather than as a sharp pain.
You lie still for roughly twenty to thirty minutes with the needles in place, and a fair number of people fall asleep. Cupping is often used alongside it for tight, guarded muscle, and dry needling is a related but different technique, which the comparison page explains. Relief after one session is common but not the point: acupuncture is generally judged over a short course rather than a single visit.
Where acupuncture is not the right tool, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic 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.
Patricia sees patients at Greeley. That page lists the address, the hours and what a first visit involves.
For the rest of the team, see the Colorado Acupuncture providers page, or acupuncture in your area. No referral is needed for Acupuncture at Mountain View Pain Center.
Acupuncture coverage varies more between plans than any other service line we offer. Some plans cover a set number of visits a year, some cover it only for named conditions, and some do not cover it at all. Medicare’s coverage of acupuncture is narrow and condition-specific. Our team verifies your benefits before your first visit and tells you what yours covers, so the number is known in advance rather than after.
Availability changes from week to week, so the honest answer is to ask. Request an appointment online and say you would like to see Patricia, or call and our team will tell you what is open at Greeley. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Whiplash leaves a mix of joint irritation and muscle guarding, and acupuncture is aimed at the second of those. It is often used alongside Chiropractic or Physical Therapy rather than instead of them, and all three are in this practice.
Some people get useful results and some do not, which is the honest answer. It is judged over a short course rather than one session, and what gets tracked is frequency and duration rather than whether a single headache stopped. Our acupuncture for migraines page goes through this in more detail.
Different training, different reasoning, and often a different sensation, although both use a fine filiform needle. The comparison page sets them side by side. Patricia is certified in both.
No. Acupuncture at Mountain View Pain Center does not require a referral, and neither do Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Pain Management. Coverage varies widely between plans, so our team verifies your benefits before your first visit.
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.
