Health Care - Health & Wellness
In general, people of the Pikes Peak region like to be healthy, and they take care of themselves to stay that way. Colorado is often in the news as one of healthiest or fittest states. Our overweight and obesity rates are lower than the national average, our rate of cardiovascular disease is only about 25 percent of the rate for the US as a whole, and the majority of people in the Pikes Peak region are considered physically active.
This is not to say there aren’t issues. The Pikes Peak region’s infant mortality rate, which is a good measure of a community’s overall social and economic well-being, is about 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births, well above the goal of 4.5. Methamphetamine use and suicides are also higher than the national average. Luckily there are a number of concerned and active groups addressing these issues from both the public and private sector.
The Pikes Peak region has strong, award-winning medical systems, qualified medical professionals, and state-of-the-art facilities. A number of fitness clubs and venues cover the area, and there are teaching professionals available for every sport and pastime. The populace works to stay healthy and well through nutrition, activities, and lifestyle, which makes this a good place to live, even with future challenges.
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Address: 4050 Briargate Pkwy.
2. Expresscare Plus
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (719) 597-4200
Address: 2141 N. Academy Circle
Description: ExpressCare Plus is a privately owned facility that has been serving Colorado Springs for more than 25 years. Walk-ins are welcome, and appointments can be scheduled for regular treatment. Services include family practice, urgent care (minor emergencies), lab and X-ray services, clinical research, and specialist appointments such as ophthalmology, orthopedics, podiatry, and physical therapy. A pharmacy is in the same building. Hours vary by day, and closed on Christmas day.
3. Memorial Health System
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (719) 365-2888
Address: 8890 N. Union Blvd.
Description: Memorial’s urgent and after-hours care centers also offer occupational medicine, and the Briargate facility has a lab, occupational health center, radiology and imaging, and a blood donation center. Hours and days open vary by location.
4. Penrose-St. Francis Health Services
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (719) 776-3216
Address: 3205 N. Academy Blvd.
Description: Penrose’s urgent care is at two facilities, one in Woodland Park. Both offer urgent and acute care for minor illnesses and injuries, limited outpatient lab and X-ray services, and the mountain center offers rehabilitation services. No appointments necessary. Open 7 days a week, but hours vary by location.
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Address: 301 S. Union Blvd.
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Address: 825 E. Pikes Peak Ave.
8. Bally Total Fitness
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (866) 402-2559
Description: There are two Bally’s in town, both on Academy Boulevard—one north and one south. The popular workout facilities have Spanish-speaking staff; personal trainers; and classes in step, boot camp, strength training, and more. There is a pool; cardio equipment from cross-trainers to stair-climbers; a children’s play center; and a sauna, steam room, and whirlpool. The strength training equipment runs from free weights to machines.
9. Colorado Institute Of Massage Therapy
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (719) 634-7347
Address: 1490 W. Fillmore St.
Description: This massage therapy school offers massage therapy by professionals and students (discounted rates from student therapists). They offer a student sports massage clinic every other Monday evening for competitive athletes (high school team members love this), and memberships that allow discounted and free massages over a year’s period.
10. Curves
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (800) 848-1096
Description: There are 14 Curves studios in the Pikes Peak region, from Woodland Park to Cañon City. Membership is good at any location worldwide so members can use other studios when they travel. At home in southern Colorado, there’s a Curves near almost every neighborhood. The for-women health clubs offer complete fitness and nutrition solutions, and many members appreciate the Curves 30-minute workout so they can exercise every major muscle group and get on with their day.
11. Life Time Fitness/Lynmar
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (719) 598-7075
Address: 2660 Vickers Dr. (Lynmar)
Description: Lynmar Racquet & Health Club is a longtime Colorado Springs tennis and workout facility. In 2008 it was purchased by Life Time Fitness, which runs more than 80 fitness centers in the West and East. In May 2011 the facilities moved from the Lynmar building to a new, 180,000-square-foot Life Time Fitness building with 8 indoor tennis courts and a state-of-the-art fitness center with elliptical cross-trainers, rower, weights, and more. The Life Time model caters to a healthy lifestyle and provides members with personal training consultants, spas and cafes, nutrition assessment and education, family activities including a number of indoor and outdoor pools, rock climbing walls, group fitness classes, and chiropractic clinics.
12. Mateos Salon And Day Spa
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (719) 266-9295
Address: 5919 Delmonico Dr.
Description: Mateos has been a longtime community standout. The massage therapists tend to stay for years, and the massages offered run from basic Swedish to a salt glow to a Tuscan Wine Antioxidant Massage. They also have more than 10 hair stylists; offer facials, manicures, and pedicures; and run the Skin Savvy Laser Clinic for corrective and restorative skin care.
13. 24 Hour Fitness
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (800) 223-0240
Description: The three 24 Hour Fitness clubs in Colorado Springs are popular—the one on North Academy Boulevard even draws quite a crowd of the under-30 set late at night. All three clubs are the “Sport” type of 24 Hour Fitness facility, which means they offer a wide variety of equipment and classes. They each have basketball courts, swimming pools, sauna, steam room, whirlpool, free weights, a kids’ club, personal trainers, a huge selection of cardio equipment, and classes from spinning to yoga.
14. Veda
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (719) 314-1480 (north)
Description: There are three Vedas in Colorado Springs, all pampering guests with treatments from traditional massage to wraps. They also offer facials, hair care, waxing, manicures and pedicures, and skin care products. Veda is an upscale spa, and it can be a bit more expensive to go there—but those who do usually walk out happy.
15. Villasport Athletic Club And Spa
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (719) 522-1221
Address: 5904 Prairie Schooner Dr.
Description: On the northeast side of town, Villasport has made quite a splash—and not just in its 5 pools. The 175,000-square-foot campus has all the new bells and whistles in workout equipment and hosts more than 150 group fitness classes each week, from yoga to spinning. The locker rooms feature a TV lounge, steam room, and whirlpool. There’s an NBA-size court. A 12,000-square-foot kids club has area for exercise, art, computer, and dance. Seasonal parties and summer camps are held for the kids, and there are occasional Parent’s Night Out events. A full-service spa offers massages, facials, and other body treatments, and there’s even a massage suite for two. The indoor and outdoor pools separate areas for lap swim, aquatic classes, waterslides, whirlpool, and water jets.