Tess Farenwald is a Family Nurse Practitioner in Pain Management at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Northglenn. She read kinesiology before she read nursing, and she spent the first part of her career in orthopedic and vascular surgical nursing — so she is used to seeing what a structural problem actually looks like from the inside. No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
University of Maryland- Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology & Pace University- Bachelor of Science in Nursing & Pace University- Master of Science in Nursing Tess Farenwald is a Family Nurse Practitioner. She grew up in Frederick, MD and attended University of Maryland at College Park, graduating with a degree in Kinesiology. She then completed an accelerated nursing program at Pace University in NYC and worked as a Registered Nurse in orthopedic/vascular surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She completed her M.S. in nursing at Pace University and became a certified Family Nurse Practitioner. In her free time, she enjoys all the outdoor activities Colorado has to offer, including running, hiking, biking, and skiing. She also enjoys traveling and exploring new places.
Kinesiology is the study of how the body moves, and coming to pain medicine through it changes the first question. Not only where does it hurt, but what is that joint being asked to do, how often, and what changed. A great deal of pain that arrives without an injury story is a load problem wearing a structural disguise.
The surgical nursing came next, and it is the other half of the picture: months of looking after people in the days after an operation teaches you quickly which findings are worrying and which are the ordinary, unpleasant middle of getting better. That is a useful instinct in a clinic where a lot of people arrive frightened by a scan report.
The conditions she sees are 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.
Tess’s visits start with an examination and a diagnosis. Her first job is working out which structure is generating the pain, because that is what decides the plan — and imaging you bring is read alongside the examination rather than in place of it.
Northglenn is one of our four procedure clinics, so epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, joint injections, trigger point injections and radiofrequency ablation are performed in office there.
Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture are in the same building, so where the answer is rehabilitation rather than a needle it is a handover rather than another referral and another wait.
Tess sees patients at Northglenn. That page lists the address, the hours and what a first visit involves.
For the rest of the team, see the Colorado Pain Management providers page, or pain management in Denver for how care works across the metro.
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. 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 Tess, or call the Colorado number and our team will tell you what is open at Northglenn. No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
At our Northglenn clinic. Northglenn is one of the four clinics where image-guided procedures are performed in office, so if a procedure turns out to be the right next step it can be done in the same building rather than sending you elsewhere.
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. Our team can verify your benefits before your first visit.
Yes, and it is one of the commoner reasons people are seen. Pain that arrives with no incident attached usually has a cause worth naming — a joint being loaded differently, a change in hours or activity, a nerve irritated by something structural. A movement-science background is largely about asking what changed rather than what happened, and the examination is built around that.
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: (720) 749-5599.
