This week's desk · standing edition
Chiropractic care, minus the hype, plus the paperwork.
This desk covers chiropractic care the way a decent weekly covers anything: what it is, what it is not, and who actually needs it this week. Around the St. Louis metro, the answer to that last question is very often somebody who got hit in traffic three days ago and is only now finding out what their neck thinks about it.
What we will say every single week
If you were in a crash, get examined this week, even if you feel mostly fine.
Crash injuries to muscle and ligament surface on a delay. The exam that documents them is worth more fresh than stale. That sentence is this publication's entire recurring editorial, and we are not embarrassed about running it again.
We are not here to oversell what an adjustment does. We are here because musculoskeletal injuries, the kind crashes and sports produce in volume, respond to examination, treatment, and follow-through, and because a chiropractic clinic that writes its work down is a genuinely useful place for exactly those injuries.
Missouri Injury Clinic fits that description. Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, three offices in the metro, lanes in auto injuries, sports injuries, and concussion rehab after acute injury. Their line is putting the CARE back in healthcare. The first visit is an exam with findings written down and a treatment plan you take home.
- 01Call the nearest office.Say car crash, give the date, ask for the earliest opening. South County is (314) 530-5480.
- 02Get the exam. Keep the plan.Findings written down and dated, a treatment plan on paper, and a straight answer about whether this is the right office.
- 03Follow the plan and report changes.Every visit after the first is a new dated entry. That is how anyone can tell whether treatment is working.
In this issue
Eleven pieces, one recurring point, and the numbers you actually need.
After a crash: the column we would run every week if we could
A crash, a quiet day or two, then a neck or back with opinions. Hour by hour through the first week, what the head deserves on its own, and the deadline argument for getting examined now rather than in two months.
Read the column
The three-day lag
Why a crash injury files late, what adrenaline and swelling have to do with it, and why the exam is worth more fresh than stale.
Getting seen this week
Numbers, hours, what to say on the phone, what to bring, and what the first visit actually is. The unglamorous section that helps.
The written record, professionally
What a dated injury exam is and is not. A care document first; a document other people will ask for second.
Concussion without a knockout
You do not have to be unconscious to have hit your head. Fog, light sensitivity, and a headache that will not clear are their own headline.
What chiropractic care is, and is not
A licensed exam, hands-on treatment, and rehab for muscle and joint injuries. Not a substitute for the ER and not a remedy for everything.
Crashed on a Friday
The offices close Friday at noon and 12 to 2 every day. What to do with the weekend, and who to call Monday at nine.
When it is the emergency room, not the clinic
The short list of symptoms that send you to an ER tonight, printed every week, because it never stops being true.
Three offices, listed the weekly way
Hazelwood, Tesson Ferry, O'Fallon. Addresses, hours, phones, the daily closure. Pick the one you can drive to this week.
Questions the desk gets every week
Is chiropractic legitimate for crash injuries, what happens at the first visit, how to help a friend, and when to skip the clinic.
About the desk
Who writes this, who pays for it, where the facts come from, and how to send a correction.
The three-day lag
Tuesday you felt passable. Thursday you rusted shut.
Nobody misjudged anything. Soft-tissue injuries swell, stiffen, and guard on their own schedule, and that schedule runs a day or three behind the crash. Adrenaline covers the first afternoon. Sleep does not help the way you expect. By the second or third morning the neck has filed its report.
That is the whole reason this desk keeps its deadline. An exam this week describes a fresh injury clearly. The same exam in two months describes a tangle of injury, compensation, and time.
Clinic on file · advertiser
The clinic this desk sends readers to, and why.
Missouri Injury Clinic
Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC · Putting the CARE back in Healthcare
Three lanes, as the clinic publishes them: auto injuries (diagnosis and a treatment plan after a crash), TBI and concussion rehab after acute injury, and sports injuries. Three offices: Hazelwood in north county, Tesson Ferry in south county, and West Terra Lane in O'Fallon.
What this desk likes about it is unglamorous. The first visit is an exam. The findings get written down and dated. The plan goes home with you. Nothing is sold from the ceiling.
If you already have an attorney, bring their contact so records can be sent where they need to go. You do not need to have decided anything about a claim before you get examined.
See a clinician this week-
South County the desk's default office
11144 Tesson Ferry Road, Suite 200
Saint Louis, MO 63123Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm
Fri 9am to 12pm
Closed daily 12 to 2 -
North County
14 Village Square Shop Ctr
Hazelwood, MO 63042Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm
Fri 9am to 12pm
Closed daily 12 to 2 -
Lake St. Louis
2163 West Terra Lane
O'Fallon, MO 63366Mon, Tue, Thu 9am to 6pm
Wed and Fri by appointment
Closed daily 12 to 2
Letters, as published
Three lines from patients, reprinted verbatim.
Great service and wonderful people
Byron Coffee, as published on moinjuryclinic.com
Great service lovely staff!
Jaymee Golley, as published on moinjuryclinic.com
Missouri Injury Clinics is the best place for treatment.
Stephanie Griffin, as published on moinjuryclinic.com
This desk does not collect, write, or solicit reviews. These are the three the clinic publishes on its own homepage, reprinted without edits. We have no way to verify them and do not claim to.
Disclosure
This page is advertising. This desk is compensated for featuring Missouri Injury Clinic, and it is not the clinic, not a law office, and not a party to anyone's insurance claim. We publish only the lanes, offices, and hours the clinic publishes on moinjuryclinic.com. We do not write reviews, rank providers, or give medical or legal advice.
The content on this site is educational and is not medical advice. An examination by a licensed clinician is the only way to know what a crash did to you.