Dr. Shaun Gabriel is a double board-certified, fellowship-trained interventional pain physician and the Medical Director at Mountain View Pain Center. Interventional pain medicine across Colorado is led by Dr. Gabriel and Matthew Gray, MD, and care across our Phoenix-metro clinics is led by Dr. Gabriel as well. The approach is the Mountain View model: precise diagnosis first, conservative and interventional options weighed honestly, and treatment plans built around your function — not just your pain score. No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Dr. Gabriel is a double board-certified, fellowship trained interventional pain physician, as well as the Medical Director. He completed his BA in Medical Ethics and Anthropology at the University of Chicago, where he was the recipient of multiple prestigious awards, while also graduating among the top of his class with both General and Special Honors. He attended medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society for his outstanding patient care. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the University of Michigan, where he graduated with multiple honors, and went on to complete his fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine with the Department of Anesthesiology. As a physiatrist and interventional pain physician, Dr. Gabriel’s goal is to alleviate pain and restore function for patients through non-surgical approaches. He has over 10 years of extensive experience in the diagnosis, management and treatment of cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine disorders, as well as a wide array of musculoskeletal and neurological injuries. He has been named a top-rated pain specialist among peers and patients, has presented numerous times at national meetings, and is published in peer-reviewed pain medicine journals. Dr. Gabriel’s clinical interests are broad, and include intervertebral disc disease, facet neurotomy, failed back surgery syndrome, spinal cord stimulation and regenerative medicine. In his personal time, Dr. Gabriel enjoys spending time with his family, serving in his church, traveling, running, playing music, painting, hiking and snowboarding.
Dr. Gabriel trained as a physiatrist before completing a fellowship in interventional pain medicine, and that order matters. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is the specialty concerned with how a person moves and what they can do; the interventional training is what allows a specific structure to be treated once it has been identified. The combination is why the question here is what has changed about your function, not only where it hurts.
His stated clinical interests are intervertebral disc disease, facet neurotomy, failed back surgery syndrome, spinal cord stimulation and regenerative medicine — which is to say, a large part of his practice is the spine that has already been treated somewhere and has not settled.
Across the practice those problems present as lower back pain, neck pain, sciatica and nerve pain, herniated discs, arthritis and joint pain, hip pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, peripheral neuropathy and headaches and migraines.
Interventional Pain Management treats the structure generating the pain directly, once the examination has identified which one it is. The options available are epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, joint injections, trigger point injections and radiofrequency ablation, alongside spinal cord stimulation and kyphoplasty.
These are performed in office at four clinics: Northglenn and Interquest in north Colorado Springs, and Mesa and Westgate in Glendale. Every other clinic coordinates the appointment to the nearest of those four. Fluoroscopic guidance is available at Westgate and Mesa.
An injection is not the plan on its own. It creates a window in which strengthening and rehabilitation can actually be done, and what happens in that window is what decides whether the relief holds. That sequencing is the part of the model the Medical Director role exists to protect.
Mountain View Pain Center runs clinics across the Colorado Front Range and the Phoenix metro — Westgate in Glendale, Peoria, Deer Valley, Northwest Phoenix, Chandler and Mesa — and Dr. Gabriel leads interventional Pain Management in both states. Start with the metro page nearest you: pain management in Denver, pain management in Colorado Springs, or pain management in Phoenix. Each names the clinics in that metro and what a first visit involves.
For the clinicians themselves, see the Colorado Pain Management providers and Arizona Pain Management providers pages.
No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy 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. 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. Gabriel, and our team will tell you what is open. No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
He is the Medical Director for the practice as a whole and leads interventional Pain Management in both states, so the clinic to ask for depends on where you are. Request an appointment online or call the number for your state and our team will tell you which clinic and which day. Interventional procedures themselves are performed in office at Northglenn, Interquest in north Colorado Springs, Mesa, and Westgate in Glendale.
No. Pain Management at Mountain View Pain Center does not require a referral, and neither do Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. If your own plan requires one, our team will tell you when they verify your benefits.
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. 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.
Cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine disorders, and a wide range of musculoskeletal and neurological injuries. His stated clinical interests include intervertebral disc disease, facet neurotomy, failed back surgery syndrome, spinal cord stimulation and regenerative medicine.
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: (720) 749-5599. Arizona: (602) 325-2024.
