Chiropractic care works best when it’s built around your specific body, not applied the same way to everyone who books an appointment. At our Lakewood office, we treat it that way, and that includes roughly as many extremity complaints (knees, shoulders, hips, ankles) as spine cases, not just back and neck pain. Your visit frequency and whether physical therapy gets added to your plan come from what we find in your exam.
Diversified manipulation is where we start for most patients. If your exam calls for something different, a lower-force approach with the Activator Method, or the assisted Thompson Drop table, we’ll use that instead. The specific technique matters less than getting the diagnosis right first; it’s one of the smaller decisions in your visit, not the main event.
We also offer dry needling, ART and Graston soft-tissue work, flexion-distraction spinal decompression, shockwave therapy, and Class IV laser, and this office sees a meaningful number of prenatal and pediatric patients as well, with care built specifically around those needs.
A Typical Week in Our Lakewood Office
In Colorado, our patients are constantly on the move. One day we’re helping a skier recover after a few days on the slopes, the next it’s a golfer with nagging back pain, a pickleball player with an aching shoulder, or someone who simply wants to stay active without discomfort. That variety is why we’ve never relied on a one-size-fits-all approach to care.
What ties these cases together isn’t the diagnosis. It’s that each one gets evaluated on its own terms before we decide anything about treatment.
Injuries We See From Colorado's Active Lifestyle
Beyond the day-to-day, a good share of what walks through our door is extremity-related, not spine complaints:
- Snowboarding injuries, often shoulder, wrist, or knee-related from falls
- Auto accident injuries, spanning both spine and extremities
- Mountain biking injuries, commonly shoulder, wrist, or collarbone
- Running injuries, frequently knee, hip, or IT band related
- Weight lifting injuries, often lower back or shoulder strain from technique breakdown under load
What Your First Visit Looks Like
We start with a conversation and a real physical exam: checking posture, range of motion, and identifying where a problem actually originates, since that’s not always where you feel the pain. A lot of chronic neck or lower back pain traces back to something several joints away from where it hurts.
From there, we build your plan. Straightforward cases might start with manipulation right away. More complex ones, especially chronic pain with a strength or mobility component, often benefit from physical therapy, or additional soft-tissue work, folded in from day one.
Who We See at This Office
Our Lakewood patients come in for a wide range of reasons, including prenatal and pediatric care alongside general chiropractic needs:
- Chronic back and neck pain
- Tension headaches
- Mobility loss after long stretches at a desk
- General maintenance care for long-term movement
- Extremity injuries from an active lifestyle, just as often as spine complaints
We also serve patients from Wheat Ridge and the surrounding area who find our Lakewood location the more convenient stop. We’re honest about what chiropractic care can and can’t do on its own. It’s not a universal fix, and for some conditions it works best paired with physical therapy rather than as a standalone treatment.
Book Your Appointment
Fill out our form to request an appointment, and our team will be in touch to confirm your visit.
Our Process
Your evaluation is built around your specific complaint, not a generic spinal screening. We look at the whole body, not just the spine. Based on what we find, we recommend a treatment plan tailored just for your condition.
As care progresses, we reassess as needed. If you’re responding well, visits taper naturally. If something isn’t improving the way it should, that’s our signal to bring in physical therapy or reconsider the treatment approach entirely.
The Diagnostic Work Behind Every Visit
Patients sometimes expect manipulation itself to be the whole appointment. In reality, most of the value happens before that: identifying exactly which joint, muscle, or movement pattern is contributing to your symptoms, and why. This may include reviewing your history, evaluating range of motion, performing orthopedic or neurologic testing, and assessing how the affected area moves. Skip that step and you get a treatment that feels good for an afternoon and doesn’t hold. We’d rather spend the extra few minutes getting the diagnosis right.
Why Accelerate Health for Chiropractic Care
The most common frustration people describe about other clinics is feeling processed through a set number of visits regardless of how they’re actually progressing. We built this practice specifically to avoid that pattern. Individualized, evidence-based care means each visit reflects what’s actually happening with your body that week.
We also don’t operate on a pressured, multi-month package model. Most major insurance is accepted here, and if you’re paying out of pocket, we offer discounted visit packages and a monthly wellness membership rather than a locked-in treatment plan sold on day one.
A Note on Consistency
Ongoing reassessment is an important part of individualized care. By tracking changes in pain, mobility, function, and treatment response, we can adjust the care plan based on measurable progress rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all approach.
How We Know If It's Actually Working
We ask patients to notice specific things between visits: whether a movement that used to trigger pain no longer does, whether stiffness clears faster in the morning, whether they’re reaching for over-the-counter pain relief less often. Those small, concrete signals tell us more about real progress than how the shoulder or back feels in the exam room on any single day.
Frequently Asked Questions
That depends on what your exam shows, not a preset preference. Diversified manipulation is where most patients start; we’ll explain if something else fits your case better and why.
It varies by condition, but we reassess regularly rather than committing you to a fixed package upfront. As you improve, the plan adjusts.
Yes, and for many chronic conditions, that combination gets better results than either approach alone. Our providers coordinate directly on your case.
We accept most major insurance plans. Self-pay patients also have access to discounted visit packages and a monthly wellness membership.
That’s when we bring physical therapy into your plan or reassess the approach. We don’t keep repeating a treatment that isn’t working.
Completely. Some patients come in assuming they’ll get traditional hands-on manipulation and end up doing better with a gentler, instrument-based approach instead, or the reverse.
Schedule Your Chiropractic Consultation in Lakewood
For patients dealing with persistent pain, muscle tension, or limited mobility, whether that’s your spine or a knee, shoulder, or ankle from Colorado’s active lifestyle, or those who simply want a provider who takes the time to understand their specific condition, our office is designed to provide thoughtful, personalized care at every stage of treatment.