Injury Solutions — Dr. Kenneth Allan, CCC Medical Director

Most provider network pages describe a referral relationship. This one is different.

Dr. Kenneth J. Allan, MD is CCC's medical director. His practice, Injury Solutions in Greenwood Village, is where the clinical framework for CCC's evidence-based care model lives. The guidelines that inform when CCC refers patients for imaging, when it escalates to interventional pain management, and what that escalation looks like were authored by Dr. Allan, drawing on decades of published medical literature and clinical experience.

When CCC refers patients to interventional pain management, the referral is matched to the provider that best fits the patient's location and clinical needs. Dr. Allan's role as medical director means the clinical standards he set govern every provider in the network, not just his own practice.

Provider Contact

Website: injurysolutionsmd.com Phone: 303-768-7676

What Dr. Allan Offers at Injury Solutions

Dr. Allan is a triple-board-certified physician with credentials spanning anesthesiology, internal medicine, and interventional pain management. His practice covers the full spectrum of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for post-accident pain:

Diagnostic Facet Joint Blocks

The gold standard for identifying spinal pain generators that imaging cannot detect. The procedure is precise: a local anesthetic is injected under fluoroscopic guidance into the specific facet joint or joints suspected as pain sources. If blocking the joint eliminates the pain, it identifies that joint as the primary generator.

Comparative blocks, two injections with different anesthetic agents used to confirm results, provide the controlled diagnostic data that qualifies for medico-legal documentation. This is not guesswork. It is the most accurate diagnostic method available for axial spinal pain following motor vehicle crashes (ASIPP 2005; Boswell 2003, 2007; Atluri 2012).

Epidural Steroid Injections (ESI)

For radicular and discogenic pain caused by disc herniation or stenosis compressing spinal nerves, ESI delivers anti-inflammatory corticosteroid directly to the inflamed nerve root under fluoroscopic guidance. Evidence spanning decades demonstrates effectiveness in reducing pain, improving function, and creating the treatment window that allows physical therapy to progress further.

Dr. Allan performs cervical and lumbar epidural steroid injections using interlaminar and transforaminal approaches, chosen based on the specific clinical indication.

Radiofrequency Denervation (RF Ablation)

Thermal ablation of the specific nerves transmitting pain from confirmed facet joint pain generators. After diagnostic blocks confirm the pain source, RF ablation interrupts the pain signal at the nerve level, providing extended relief (typically 6-18 months) by ablating the medial branch nerves that innervate the confirmed painful joints.

Dr. Allan co-developed a large-field radiofrequency ablation device now used in pain management practices worldwide. His expertise in RF ablation is not incidental. It is the area in which he has made a direct contribution to the field.

RF ablation is safe, internationally accepted, and supported by randomized blinded studies including patients with motor vehicle crash injuries. The nerve regenerates over time, and the procedure can be repeated when it does.

Nerve Blocks

Spinal and peripheral nerve blocks for both diagnosis and treatment. Neural blockade is "the favored, decisive intervention" in diagnostic and therapeutic management of chronic pain (Association of Pain Management Anesthesiologists 2000). Dr. Allan performs spinal nerve root blocks, medial branch blocks, and peripheral nerve blocks targeting specific pain generators identified in the clinical evaluation.

Trigger Point Injections

For myofascial pain, the muscle pain and trigger points that develop following collision-induced muscle trauma, trigger point injections provide direct relief and allow physical therapy to address the underlying dysfunction more effectively. Often used early in the treatment course, before or alongside conservative care, to interrupt the pain-spasm cycle.

Regenerative Injection Therapy (RIT)

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and regenerative approaches represent the advancing edge of interventional pain treatment. Instead of blocking pain signals or reducing inflammation, regenerative injection launches a healing cascade: new collagen and cartilage deposition, restoration of ligament, tendon, and joint tissue health.

The goal of regenerative medicine is not palliation. It is repair. Dr. Allan applies PRP for both axial spinal conditions and peripheral joint injuries, including shoulders, knees, hips, and wrists, where a regenerative approach provides more durable results than cortisone alone.

Medication Management

For patients who require pharmacological support alongside procedural treatment, Dr. Allan manages pain medications as part of a coordinated treatment plan, not as standalone therapy but integrated with the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that address the underlying structural sources.

Location

Injury Solutions 5350 S. Roslyn St., Suite 230, Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Greenwood Village is accessible from CCC's Aurora, Lakewood, and Westminster clinic areas.

When CCC Refers to Dr. Allan

The clinical triggers for interventional pain management referral are well-defined. Your managing physician refers to Injury Solutions when:

• Conservative care is helping but not resolving the pain: Physical therapy and massage therapy have reduced muscle spasm, improved mobility, and produced clear functional gains, but a persistent pain source remains that conservative care is managing around rather than resolving.
• Diagnostic precision is needed: When the clinical picture indicates that a specific structural pain generator needs identification, particularly when MRI findings are normal or don't fully explain the pain pattern, diagnostic injections provide the only validated method for precise pain generator identification.
• Radicular symptoms require targeted treatment: Disc herniation with ongoing nerve root compression that hasn't resolved with conservative care often responds to epidural steroid injection, addressing the inflammation at the source rather than the consequences throughout the body.
• Confirmed pain generators need therapeutic intervention: After diagnostic blocks identify the pain source, therapeutic procedures treat it directly: RF ablation for confirmed facet joint pain, therapeutic nerve blocks, regenerative injections for tissue injury.

The Dr. Allan Difference

Most interventional pain management providers see the referral as the beginning of their relationship with the patient. Dr. Allan has been the clinical architect of CCC's care model from the start. He knows the conservative care protocol patients have been through before they reach him. He knows what the physical therapy progress notes say, what the imaging shows, what the clinical examination found. The referral package isn't a brief introduction. It's the complete clinical record of a patient he's been medically directing through their care.

This is what coordinated care looks like at the specialist level. The interventional physician and the managing physician aren't parallel tracks. They're the same coordinated system, directed by the same medical director.

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