Dr. William Ferguson is an Acupuncturist at Mountain View Pain Center, seeing patients at Central Park in Denver. He completed his doctoral studies at Emperor’s College in Santa Monica, is nationally certified and licensed in both California and Colorado, and practices in the Japanese tradition. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Dr. William Ferguson DAOM, LAc, Dipl. OM, MTOM, graduated from Emperor’s College in Santa Monica, California, where he also completed his doctoral studies. He is nationally certified, licensed in both California and Colorado, and specializes in Internal and Physical Medicine. He routinely uses adjunct therapies like gua sha, cupping, tui na, electrostim, herbal medicine, and physio taping. As an undergraduate, he studied Philosophy at the University of New Orleans. Dr. Ferguson is a first-generation U.S. citizen, his grandfather – another Dr. Ferguson – immigrated from Scotland to work at Western State Hospital in Staunton, Virginia. Dr. Ferguson is a firm believer in the ability of the body to heal itself not only through Acupuncture, herbal medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, but through proper diet, exercise, and the invocation of the will. As a life-long meditator, he has deep experience with the health benefits imparted by a calm spirit. His Acupuncture style is definitively Japanese and he is known for his exceptionally gentle technique. Outside of Acupuncture, Dr. Ferguson has spent 19 years studying traditional Japanese martial arts and currently holds the rank of San Dan (3rd-degree black belt) and Shidoshi-ho (assistant instructor) in the Bujinkan. He enjoys languages and speaks Japanese.
Acupuncture is not one technique. The Japanese tradition Dr. Ferguson trained and practices in uses finer needles, shallower insertion and lighter handling than the Chinese styles most people in the United States encounter, and it relies more on palpation to find the point than on measurement to locate it. The practical consequence is that a treatment is gentler, and that patients who have tried acupuncture once, disliked it and concluded it was not for them have often only tried one version of it.
His doctorate is in acupuncture and Oriental medicine, he is licensed in two states and nationally certified, and his clinical interest is in internal and physical medicine, which in a pain practice means the musculoskeletal complaints people come in with and the sleep, digestion and energy questions that tend to surface once they are asked about. Gua sha, cupping and tui na sit alongside the needling where the tissue calls for them.
The problems he sees most are back pain, neck pain, knee pain, migraines and neuropathy.
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.
Dr. Ferguson sees patients at Central Park. 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 Dr. Ferguson, or call and our team will tell you what is open at Central Park. No referral is needed, and our goal is to get you in within the same week.
Most patients say no. The needles are roughly the width of a hair and nothing like an injection needle, and Japanese-style insertion, which is what Dr. Ferguson practices, is shallower and lighter than the alternative. What people usually report is a dull heaviness at the point rather than a sharp sensation.
Possibly, because styles differ more than most patients realize before they have had two. Depth, needle gauge and handling are not standardized across traditions. It is worth saying at the first visit what you disliked, since that is usually a description of a technique rather than of acupuncture as a whole.
Acupuncture is judged over a short course rather than a single visit, and Dr. Ferguson will tell you after the first appointment what he expects and what should be noticeable by when. If it is not working, you should hear that from him rather than keep booking.
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.
