Primary Care

Adult Primary Care in Clarksville, TN

Integrated primary care for adults, at the practice that already knows your health.

Most adults in Clarksville manage their health across several providers. Riverside Spine & Physical Medicine now brings comprehensive primary care in Clarksville into the same clinical environment as chiropractic, physical therapy, weight management, and hormone optimization, so the people coordinating your care are working from the same picture.

For adults who want a primary care relationship built on context rather than a blank intake form, this is a meaningful change. The practice has served Montgomery County for over 25 years. The clinical record is already here.

New patient appointments are available. Hours: Monday through Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

What Adult Primary Care at Riverside Includes

The primary care for adults in Clarksville program at Riverside covers the full range of services that adult men and women need for ongoing health management.

Preventive Care and Annual Wellness

Annual physicals, age-appropriate health screenings, and wellness assessments form the foundation of adult primary care. Identifying risk factors early, before they require more intensive management, is where primary care produces its most significant long-term value.

Chronic Disease Management

Ongoing management of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and thyroid conditions. Care plans are maintained over time and adjusted as the patient’s health status changes, rather than managed reactively at acute visits.

Lab Testing and Diagnostics

Routine and targeted lab work, ordered and interpreted within the same clinical relationship rather than requiring a separate diagnostic appointment.

Acute and Sick Visit Care

Prompt evaluation and treatment for illness, infection, and minor injury without the wait times associated with urgent care facilities or emergency settings.

Men’s Health

Cardiovascular risk assessment, metabolic monitoring, testosterone evaluation where clinically indicated, and general wellness care for adult men. Coordinated with the practice’s hormone optimization program when relevant.

Women’s Health

Age-appropriate preventive screenings, thyroid and hormonal health monitoring, and coordination with the practice’s hormone optimization services where clinically relevant. These are general adult primary care services, not OB/GYN or specialty care.

Coordination With Specialist and Adjunct Services

When a patient’s needs extend beyond primary care, Riverside’s integrated model means chiropractic assessment, physical therapy, medical weight loss, and hormone optimization are available within the same practice. External referrals are made when specialist care is required.

Why the Clinical Context You Arrive With Matters

Patients looking for a primary care doctor in Clarksville often value a provider who understands their broader health history. At Riverside, that history already exists within the practice.

A patient who has been receiving chiropractic care for a lumbar condition, or who is enrolled in the medical weight loss program, arrives at a primary care appointment with a clinical record the team already knows. Medications are prescribed with awareness of the patient’s musculoskeletal status. Activity guidance reflects spinal and joint capacity. Metabolic monitoring accounts for the weight management program already underway.

This is the practical advantage of integrated care, and it is most visible in patients whose health involves more than one discipline, which describes most adults over 40 who are actively managing their health rather than reacting to it.

Having primary care, chiropractic, physical therapy, and weight management available in one practice means the clinical team shares context, coordinates decisions, and treats the whole patient rather than a single presenting complaint.

For adults managing overlapping conditions, that shared context changes what preventive care in Clarksville can accomplish. It moves from a periodic check-in to a continuous clinical relationship informed by the full picture of how the patient is doing across all the disciplines involved in their care.

Access to Primary Care in Clarksville

Riverside is accepting new adult primary care patients at a time when primary care availability in Montgomery County is under real pressure. A 2023 contributed article published by Clarksville Now cited approximately 118 physicians per 100,000 residents in the area, compared to a national average of 210. The Tennessee Hospital Association’s physician workforce study projects a statewide shortage of nearly 3,900 physicians by 2035, with primary care identified among the most affected specialties.

Clarksville’s population has grown substantially over the past decade, placing further pressure on a physician supply that was already below national benchmarks. For adults without a current primary care relationship, establishing one sooner rather than later has measurable health value, preventive care and early disease identification consistently produce better outcomes than management initiated after a condition has progressed.

Riverside Spine & Physical Medicine is accepting new adult primary care patients now. The practice is located at 121 W Dunbar Cave Rd, Clarksville, TN 37040.

25 Years in Clarksville. One Integrated Practice.

Riverside Spine & Physical Medicine was founded by Dr. David M. Allen, DC in 2001 and has served Montgomery County for more than 25 years. The practice has earned over 20 Gold Awards including Best of Clarksville recognition from 2020 through 2025.

The addition of adult primary care is a deliberate extension of the integrated model that has defined Riverside since its founding. Rather than referring patients outward for general medical needs, the practice can now coordinate primary care alongside chiropractic, physical therapy, medical weight loss, hormone optimization, PRP therapy, and non-surgical musculoskeletal treatments within a single clinical environment.

For adults in Clarksville who have been navigating multiple providers to manage different aspects of their health, the opportunity to consolidate that care in a practice with a 25-year presence in the community represents a meaningful change.

New Patients Welcome

Call (931) 542-9420 or visit riversidespineandphysmed.com/services/primary-care to request a new patient appointment.

Hours: Monday through Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  |  Friday 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Address: 121 W Dunbar Cave Rd, Clarksville, TN 37040

 

• Annual Physicals

• Preventive Care

• Sick Visits

• Lab Testing

• Chronic Disease Management

• High Blood Pressure

• Diabetes

• Cholesterol Management

• Thyroid Conditions

• Hormone Optimization

• Weight Management