A large share of the sciatica seen in this city arrives from two places: people who load their spine for a living, and people whose day is spent in a vehicle. Fort Carson and Peterson bring the first group; the Powers and I-25 corridors bring the second.
Both end up with the same mechanism. A nerve root is irritated where it exits the lumbar spine and the leg carries the complaint. What differs is what has to change afterwards — a soldier returning to a ruck march needs a different endpoint from a driver who needs to sit for six hours.
The Colorado Springs clinics are deliberately spread. InterQuest sits at the north end at 10807 New Allegiance Drive, just off the InterQuest Parkway exit. Academy is on the east side at 3204 N Academy Boulevard. Tenderfoot is south at 1230 Tenderfoot Hill Road.
Monument, Gleneagle and Jackson Creek come down to InterQuest. The Powers corridor and most of the east side use Academy. Fountain, Security-Widefield and Fort Carson come up to Tenderfoot. Each treats sciatica and each runs the full service line.
The first visit is an examination and a history, not a treatment handed over at the door. For sciatica the specific questions are which root is involved and whether the nerve is only irritated or is losing function.
That means straight-leg raise, reflexes, and strength tested in the calf and the front of the foot. Weakness moves the timeline; pain alone does not. You will not be given an injection on that first day.
Imaging comes into it when there is weakness, when a reasonable course has not shifted it, or when a procedure needs the level confirmed. Bring any scan you already have, or tell us where it was taken and it will be requested.
Because all three services sit in the same building and work from one chart, the plan moves when the leg does. Nobody restarts their history at a second practice.
Where sciatica does not settle, the interventional step is an epidural steroid injection around the affected root. In Colorado Springs it is performed in office at InterQuest — a straight run up I-25 from Tenderfoot, or across Woodmen Road from Academy.
Most major commercial plans are accepted, and most Medicare Advantage plans are in network in Colorado. Benefits are checked before the first appointment. Care that began in a collision is billed to med-pay, to a lien where an attorney is involved, or to a health plan; work injuries go through the carrier. No referral is needed and appointments are usually available within the same week.
If you want the wider picture: sciatica as a condition, plus Pain Management in Colorado Springs and Chiropractic care in Colorado Springs.
Other Colorado Springs pages by complaint: herniated disc treatment in Colorado Springs, low back pain treatment in Colorado Springs, neck pain treatment in Colorado Springs, knee pain treatment in Colorado Springs and neuropathy treatment in Colorado Springs. And by procedure: epidural steroid injection in Colorado Springs, radiofrequency ablation in Colorado Springs, spinal cord stimulator in Colorado Springs, kyphoplasty in Colorado Springs (at our surgery center in Denver) and nerve block in Colorado Springs.
Every clinic below has Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, Acupuncture and Pain Management on one chart, so care can move between them without a new referral.
Downtown out through the north, west, south and east suburbs.
Academy, InterQuest and Tenderfoot cover the north, central and south of the city.
Harmony in Fort Collins and our Greeley clinic serve Larimer and Weld counties.
Across the Valley, from the West Valley through Phoenix to the East Valley.
Any of them — InterQuest in the north, Academy on the east side, Tenderfoot in the south. Each runs the full service line.
No. Book directly for Pain Management, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic or Acupuncture. Appointments are usually available within the same week.
You can be evaluated without a referral. Bring your coverage details and benefits are verified before the first appointment so there are no surprises.
An examination and a history. For sciatica that means straight-leg raise, reflexes and strength in the calf and the front of the foot, to establish which root is involved and whether it is losing function.
When weakness is present or is worsening, or when a reasonable course has not shifted the leg pain. Then an epidural steroid injection around the root is considered.
In office at InterQuest, 10807 New Allegiance Drive, off the InterQuest Parkway exit on I-25.
No. It is ordered when there is weakness, when symptoms are not improving, or when a procedure needs the level confirmed.
Most major commercial plans are accepted and most Medicare Advantage plans are in network in Colorado. Benefits are checked before you come in.
Mountain View Pain Center treats sciatica across Colorado Springs, with Pain Management, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture in the same clinic and on the same chart. No referral is needed and appointments are usually available within the same week.
