DR. JO ANN DOUGLAS is nationally Board Certified by the American Osteopathic Association in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine. She graduated from University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM) in Biddeford, Maine in 1998, completing her rotating internship at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA and her neuromusculoskeletal residency at UNECOM in 2001. Dr. Douglas is one of the first osteopathic physicians to be trained in prolotherapy as part of the Post-Doctoral Residency Training Program for Board Certification in Musculoskeletal Medicine. Prior to osteopathic medical school, Dr. Douglas attained her M.S. Degree in Exercise Science from the University of Massachusetts, where she worked for several years as an athletic trainer and exercise physiologist for the womens athletic teams.
At her current facility, Colorado Osteopathic and Sports Medicine, which has two convenient locations in Lakewood, CO (minutes from Denver) and Breckenridge, CO, Dr. Douglas specializes in treatment of the musculoskeletal system with (OMT) Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (for restrictions/hypomobility) and Prolotherapy (for instability/hypermobility). She treats both the spine and the extremities.
Many recurrent problems are often interrelated; yet physicians not specially trained in osteopathic medicine, prolotherapy and OMT often overlook the fact that physical symptoms can demonstrate a connection between various physical problems in the body. As a result of her training and experience with patients, Dr. Douglas has a high success rate in assessing the connection between the various parts of the body. Her extensive knowledge in musculoskeletal functioning and its interconnected relationship with the entire body allows Dr. Douglas to use prolotherapy to simultaneously treat back pain, shoulder pain, rotator cuff tears, chronic ankle sprains, tennis elbow, migraine headaches, scoliosis, degenerative disc disease, TMJ, arthritis, herniated disc, and tendonitis (a few of the many complications associated with musculoskeletal problems). For example, prolotherapy can be used to stabilize a chronic ankle problem that may be contributing to back pain because of the body’s tendency to compensate. Or even more dramatic, a persistent migraine headache can improve because of decreased muscle tension in the neck, shoulders and back resulting from the compensation for the same ankle instability!

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