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John A. Littleford, DO
Dr. Littleford is an osteopathic physician who believes in multiple modalities in treating chronic pain and injury patients suffering from musculoskeletal and other structural problems.Dr. Littleford has been in private practice in Colorado since 1973. After graduating from the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1972, he began in family medicine and gradually shifted his practice emphasis to manipulative and structural medicine. He gained his OMM board certification in 1995.
Dr. Littleford uses OMM which includes palpation and manipulation both as a diagnostic and treatment tool. Other modalities used as needed are trigger point injections, prolotherapy (also called Regenerative Injection Therapy or RIT), physical/exercise therapy and prescribed rehabilitation.
He has been teaching OMM and other modalities, training rotating physicians in the Denver/Boulder Metropolitan areas for over twenty years and is highly respected within the medical/osteopathic community. He also guest lectures at a variety of osteopathic seminars and table-training courses across the country. He is an active contributor to the osteopathic cranial community, as well.
Since studying with recognized medical leaders in the established but re-emerging field of prolotherapy, Dr. Littleford has also been teaching prolotherapy techniques to other physicians and medical students, including during the medical mission in Honduras sponsored yearly by the Hackett-Hemwall Foundation/University of Wisconsin Medical School. Dr. Littleford is among the first doctors in the Denver Area to include prolotherapy in his practice and is sought after by patients and doctors both in-state and beyond.
Dr. Littleford’s approach to his patients reflects his knowledge, devotion, and love for the philosophies and treatments of osteopathy, prolotherapy and other non-invasive medical treatments. His aim is to help pain and injury patients with their individual medical needs. Throughout his years of practice, Dr. Littleford has seen an array of pain patients disguarded by the medical community. He often treats patients who have “fallen between the cracks” because treatment of their pain problems stagnates. They have hit the wall within the medical community. Conventional treatments haven’t worked; they have been through surgeries with unsatisfactory results; they have been misdiagnosed and because of the misdiagnoses, are treated incorrectly. Many professionals in the medical field do not have the training, knowledge and skills included as a basis in board certified OMM osteopathic training. Knowing this, and seeing it time and again in his practice, Dr. Littleford uses his knowledge of proper pain care and delves into each patient’s complete medical and injury history, spending the time required with each patient in order to determine an accurate and thorough diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Littleford believes in getting to the underlying cause of pain problems rather than treating just the symptoms. After having dealt with patients overlooked, ignored or frustrated by a medical system that sometimes dismisses what it does not understand, Dr. Littleford is a true patient advocate and truly empathetic physician. He is also a full physician who can diagnosis, treat, or refer patients to others in the medical field if the patient’s pain problems do not respond to his care. In these cases, the source of pain may be of a non-structural source and outside the scope of Dr. Littleford’s expertise, so they will be referred to another medical provider.
Dr. Littleford is married and the father of three, stepfather of two. He is a certified referee for the Colorado Soccer Association and acts as an advisor to his girls’ club soccer teams. He also golfs when his schedule permits. As an exfootball player and avid sportsman, he is personally acquainted with the chronic pain his patients experience and keeps his middle-aging structure balanced through OMM. He has also undergone trigger point and prolotherapy injections to rebuild and regenerate his injury-weakened joints and completely understands the benefits of these treatments.
Dr. Littleford also uses OMM, trigger point and prolotherapy injections on young soccer players and other youth athletes with great success, even when other traditional therapies have failed. OMM and prolotherapy are especially successful in young athletes since their muscles and ligaments heal much faster than older patients. Therefore, the “down time” in their particular sport is dramatically shortened. The osteopathic theories in treating athletic injuries differs from conventional wisdom used currently in athletic training circles, but young athletes treated and their parents are pleased with the results of Dr. Littleford’s care.
One of Dr. Littleford’s goals is to educate the public concerning Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and how successful the outcomes are for pain and injury patients when treated with these combination of modalities. Many patients he treats have been through the “medical mill”; some have had unsuccessful surgeries; some have been misdiagnosed and suffered for years needlessly. The sooner the injury or dysfunction is treated properly, the better the results will be for the patient. But if you have been suffering with misdiagnosed or mistreated pain symptoms for years, there is still hope for you to lead a more painless or even pain free life.