Three rooms across the metro, one on each side of the map.

Missouri Injury Clinic runs three rooms in the St. Louis metro, and they are deliberately spread out: one in south county, one in north county, one across the Missouri River in St. Charles County. All three publish the same lanes, auto injuries with diagnosis and a treatment plan, TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries, and all three are run under Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, a chiropractor. The practical question after a wreck is not which room is best. It is which room you can get to this week without the drive becoming its own problem.

Every room closes from 12 to 2 every day. The clinic publishes that plainly and this desk repeats it plainly, because the single most common scheduling mistake is a lunch-hour call that rings through to nobody. Call in the morning or after 2, say it was a car crash, and say when.

How to choose

Drive time, not distance. The south county room on Tesson Ferry is the obvious pick for anyone south of Highway 40 and east of 270, and for the Jefferson County line. The Hazelwood room at 14 Village Square covers north county, the airport corridor, and north city along I-70 and I-270. The O'Fallon room on West Terra Lane covers St. Charles County and the far west reach of I-70 and I-64. If you sit between two of them, pick the one whose hours fit your week; O'Fallon's Wednesday and Friday are by appointment, which can be a help or a hindrance depending on your shift.

If you were treated in an emergency room first, bring the discharge paperwork to whichever room you choose; it becomes part of the record. 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.

What every room is not

None of the three is an emergency facility. Chest pain, a sudden severe headache, weakness or numbness on one side, trouble speaking, a loss of bowel or bladder control, or a head injury with vomiting or worsening confusion is an emergency room trip right now, not a call to a clinic. Call a room for a planned exam, not for an emergency.

The rooms are also not a law office, and nothing about booking an exam involves one. Joe Hollingsworth, DC, is a chiropractor. The visit is history, exam, findings, and a written plan. The first visit, minute by minute describes it, and Questions St. Louis drivers ask covers the rest.