Timothy Abbott is a Physician Assistant in Pain Management at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Arapahoe. He worked in orthopedics for several years and then chose to specialize in Pain Management — a deliberate move, not a default one. No referral is needed for Pain Management, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Tim graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a BA in Psychology. After moving to Colorado and working in that field for several years, he decided to transition into the medical field. He completed his prerequisites for PA school at Metropolitan State College of Denver, then attended the Physician Assistant program at Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood, Colorado. Tim worked in orthopedics for several years before choosing to specialize in Pain Management. His goal is to help patients control, manage, or eliminate their pain so they can fully engage in all aspects of life, promoting both their physical and emotional well-being.
Tim spent several years in orthopedics before moving to Pain Management. Orthopedics is where you see the whole arc: the people for whom an operation is transformative, the people for whom it changes less than they were hoping, and the large group in the middle who were never surgical candidates in the first place.
Seeing all three calibrates what is worth saying to a patient. It is the difference between a plan presented with confidence and a plan presented with a realistic range — and in a field where people have usually been promised things before, the realistic range is what earns trust.
He also came to medicine as a second career, having worked in a different field entirely for several years first. People who change direction deliberately tend to have thought about why, which is not nothing in a specialty that runs on long conversations.
The conditions he 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.
Tim’s visits start with an examination and a diagnosis. His 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.
Visits cover evaluation, medication management and ongoing pain care. Where an image-guided procedure — epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, joint injections, trigger point injections and radiofrequency ablation — is the right next step, it is scheduled at Northglenn or Interquest in north Colorado Springs, which are the Colorado clinics where those are performed in office.
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.
Tim sees patients at Arapahoe. 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 Tim, or call the Colorado number and our team will tell you what is open at Arapahoe. 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 Arapahoe clinic. Arapahoe is not one of the four clinics where image-guided procedures are performed, so if one turns out to be the right next step it is scheduled at Northglenn or Interquest.
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.
You should expect a specific answer rather than an encouraging one: what the procedure is meant to achieve, roughly what range of benefit is reasonable for your particular findings, and what happens next whether it works well or does not. If that range cannot be given with any confidence, that is usually a sign the diagnosis needs more work before the procedure does.
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.
