Key takeaways
- The record is the chart a licensed clinician builds while examining you: what happened, what hurts, what the exam found, what the plan is, and the date it was written.
- It exists so the next clinician works from facts, not memory. That is a clinical reason, and it is the only reason this desk will give you.
- A record opened the week of the crash ties injury to event cleanly. If days or weeks have already passed, go anyway; a later exam is still a real exam.
- This desk does not hold anyone's chart, coordinate claims, or speak to insurers. Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, is a chiropractor, not a lawyer.
What the record actually is
The record is the clinical chart a licensed clinician builds while examining you: what happened, what hurts, what the exam found, what the plan is, and the date all of it was written down. It is a care document first. It exists so that you, the next visit, and any clinician who comes after are working from the same facts instead of somebody's memory of a bad week.
Missouri Injury Clinic publishes three lanes on moinjuryclinic.com: auto injuries, meaning diagnosis and a treatment plan after a crash; TBI and concussion rehab; and sports injuries. An exam in any of those lanes produces a record because that is how treatment works, not because a webpage told you to collect paper.
This page is a reading desk on the Illinois side of the river. It cannot examine anyone and it does not hold anyone's chart.
Why the date on the first exam matters
After a crash, symptoms often show up late. People feel fine trading insurance information on the shoulder of I-64 and wake up the next morning with a neck that will not turn, a headache that will not clear, or a fog that makes an ordinary shift at the plant hard. A dated exam gives a clinician a starting point, so a change two weeks later is a change from something measured rather than a guess.
That is a clinical reason, not a money reason. This page does not put a number on anyone's claim and it will not pretend paperwork is treatment.
It is also true, and worth saying once and plainly, that if a claim is ever part of your story, the dated record from the first exam is what everyone will ask for. You do not need to have decided anything about a claim before you get examined. The record reads the same whether you crossed the McKinley or the Jefferson Barracks to get it.
If days or weeks have already passed, go anyway. A later exam is still a real exam, and being honest about the timeline is part of the record.
What the first visit is supposed to include
A history of the crash. A physical exam. A diagnosis if the findings support one. A written plan you can repeat out loud. And a straight answer about whether this is the right room or whether you need imaging, a referral, or a different specialty.
Ask the questions plainly: what did you find, what is the plan, how long before we should expect a change, and what would make you send me somewhere else. A clinician who cannot answer that is not handing you a record worth keeping. The first visit goes through the whole thing in order.
Ask the clinic directly how a visit is billed and what they accept. We do not publish payment terms for a clinic we do not own, and we will not describe an arrangement we cannot verify.
The three lanes and the three rooms
The lanes, as the clinic publishes them, are auto injuries, TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries. If your problem is one of those, you are in the right lane. If it is something else, say so on the phone and let them tell you yes or no before you drive across a bridge.
The rooms are Hazelwood in north St. Louis County, Tesson Ferry in south St. Louis County, and O'Fallon in St. Charles County, Missouri. All three are in Missouri. Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, runs the clinic. Addresses, phones, and hours are on the rooms page, and hours are worth confirming on the call.
If you are the one sending a crash patient across the river
Sometimes the person reading this is not the injured one. You are a parent in Collinsville, a coach in Belleville, a shop owner in Granite City, a front desk, or the friend still answering their phone at nine at night. The useful handoff is small: their name, a number that actually reaches them, one sentence on what happened and when, where it hurts today, and which of the three rooms is the shorter drive from their side of the river.
Call the room first so nobody arrives at a closed door, especially between 12 and 2. Tell the injured person what you told the clinic. A handoff they did not hear about is not a handoff.
Then step back. You are getting someone an exam, not managing their care. Do not promise an outcome, a schedule, or a dollar figure on anyone else's behalf.
Bring their contact so records can be sent where they need to go. That is the whole of what this desk has to say about attorneys, and it is a logistics note, not advice.
What this page is not
Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, is a chiropractor. This is a chiropractic injury clinic, not a law office, and nothing here is legal advice or a comment on anybody's insurance dispute.
This desk does not coordinate claims, hold paperwork, arrange payment, or speak to insurers for you. If money or coverage is the question, ask the clinic on the phone and take the answer from them.
We also do not diagnose. Everything above is about getting examined by a person who can.
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. An injury clinic is built for planned care. If a clinic sends you to an emergency room instead of booking you, that is the system working, not a wasted trip.