Conditions We Treat
These are the ten things people most often walk in with. Every one of them gets the same approach: find out why it is happening, treat it on day one, and teach you what caused it so you do not come back for the same thing next year.
Over 20 years of experience · Wheat Ridge, Arvada, Lakewood, Golden & West DenverPain tells you where. It does not tell you why.
Almost every condition on this list has one thing in common: the place that hurts is rarely the place that failed. Knees are usually a hip problem. Headaches are often a neck problem. That knot between your shoulder blades is protecting something. Dr. Andrew Allen has spent more than twenty years finding the difference between the two, and that difference is why relief lasts instead of wearing off by Thursday.
What Dr. Allen treats most
Ranked by how often they come through the door on West 44th. Click any one for the full picture, including the root causes we look for and what care actually involves.
Lower Back Pain & Sciatica
The most common reason people come in, and the thing they have most often been told to live with. Usually a hip, disc, or SI joint story rather than a back story.
Neck Pain
Stiffness, that permanent knot, or symptoms into the arm. The mid back and shoulder blade are almost always part of why.
Headaches & Migraines
If nobody has examined your neck, your headaches have not been fully evaluated. A large share have a mechanical driver below the skull.
Upper Back Pain
The knot you cannot reach, stretch, or get rid of. It is smoke, not fire, and the fire is usually a rib, a stiff thoracic spine, or a shoulder blade.
Shoulder Pain
Four joints working as one. Rotator cuff is a location, not a diagnosis, and the shoulder blade is usually the reason.
Strained & Pulled Muscles
The same hamstring, every season. Rest is a pause, not a treatment, and the reason it tore is still sitting there.
Knee Pain
A hinge caught between a hip and a foot, with almost no say in what either does. Wear and tear is not a diagnosis.
Hip Pain
The engine of the body. When it quits, the low back and the knee pick up its work, and both are worse at it.
Plantar Fasciitis
Those first ten steps in the morning. Your heel is where it hurts. Your calf and your hip are usually why.
Herniated Discs
Somebody said herniated and your stomach dropped. Most disc herniations improve without surgery, and the scan is not the whole story.
The same approach, whatever brought you in
You get evaluated and treated on day one. Not a clipboard and a handshake and a see-you-next-week.
We listen to the whole story
When it started, what makes it better, what makes it worse, what you have already tried, and what you are actually trying to get back to.
We watch you move
A functional movement assessment. Pain tells you where. Movement tells you why. This is where the real cause usually stops hiding.
Orthopedic and neurological testing
Specific tests that separate a real diagnosis from a guess, and that flag the cases which need imaging or a referral instead of us.
Hands-on assessment
Dr. Allen palpates the joints and tissue directly. Twenty years of hands find things a form does not.
You get treated the same day
You leave your first visit having actually been treated, and knowing in plain English what is going on and what the plan is.
The tools behind the plan
No two plans here look the same, because they are built around what your evaluation actually found.
Not sure which one is you?
That is what the evaluation is for. Book a free 15-minute call or come in and find out what is actually going on, from a doctor with twenty years of hands.
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