Back pain in St. Louis has two usual suspects: the crash and the job.
This guide covers both in plain language and points to one practical next step: a real exam with findings written down and a plan you can repeat out loud, this week, at Missouri Injury Clinic. Three offices cover the metro. For most of the city, the Tesson Ferry office is the near one.
Tesson Ferry, Suite 200 · (314) 530-5480Mon to Thu 9 to 6, Fri 9 to 12, closed daily 12 to 2. North county calls Hazelwood, the St. Charles side calls O'Fallon.
Downtown through the morning haze, from the bluffs above the river on the south side. Most of this guide's readers start the day on this side of town.
The two usual suspects
Most St. Louis back pain arrives one of two ways, and neither one waits politely.
A crash loads the spine in a way it never sees in daily life. A job loads it the same way a thousand times a month. Both deserve an exam, not a guess.
The intersection at a red light in the rain: the setting for the low-speed rear-end hit this desk hears about most.
Crash backs
A rear-end hit at 25 miles per hour loads the lumbar spine, the hips, and the neck in a few hundredths of a second. The soreness that shows up two days later is not you being dramatic. It is tissue reporting damage on a delay, after the adrenaline clears.
The guide's standing advice: examined this week, not toughed out this quarter. The clinic behind this guide writes down what it finds, with a date on it.
Six in the morning at a loading dock. St. Louis works with its back, and the back eventually sends a note.
Work backs
Warehouse shifts, nursing floors, the trades, long hauls up I-70: this metro works with its back. When it starts talking back, an exam beats a guess, and a written plan beats a heating pad rotation and a drawer full of ibuprofen.
Missouri Injury Clinic, under Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, publishes three lanes: auto, TBI and concussion, and sports. A work back is not one of them by name, so call first, describe the job and the injury, and let the front desk tell you yes or no.
Missouri Injury Clinic: an exam this week, findings on paper, a plan you can say out loud.
The clinic's motto is Putting the CARE back in Healthcare. Its published lanes are auto injuries, meaning diagnosis and a treatment plan after a crash, TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries. Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, runs it. This guide is advertising for that clinic and says so on every page. What it will not do is dress that up with fake rankings or invented comparisons.
A documented exam this week protects your health and your options. You do not need to have decided anything about a claim before you get examined. Pick the office you can drive to this week and call it in the morning.
Nearest for most of the city
Tesson Ferry
11144 Tesson Ferry Road, Suite 200 Saint Louis, MO 63123
Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm Fri 9am to 12pm Closed daily 12 to 2
Advertising. This desk is compensated for featuring Missouri Injury Clinic. It publishes only the lanes, offices, and hours the clinic publishes on moinjuryclinic.com. Hours are worth confirming on the call.
As published on moinjuryclinic.com
Three patient reviews, quoted, not written.
These are the only reviews this guide carries, reproduced exactly as the clinic publishes them. We do not write reviews and we do not rank providers.
Great service and wonderful people
Byron Coffee, customer of 5 years
Great service lovely staff!
Jaymee Golley, customer of 3 months
Missouri Injury Clinics is the best place for treatment.
Stephanie Griffin, customer of 2 years
The Poplar Street Bridge, which carries the interstates over the river. When it backs up, the rear-end hits happen on the approach ramps. Photo: Antony-22, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
How this guide works
Written by a desk, paid by a clinic, edited like a city guide.
The medical background here is general and true: what a strain is, why soft-tissue pain arrives late, when the emergency department is the right door. Where a reader might doubt a fact, the chapter cites a federal health source. The clinic facts are only the ones Missouri Injury Clinic publishes itself: three offices, three phone numbers, three lanes, one chiropractor.
Nothing here is medical advice or legal advice. It is a guide to getting examined by someone who can actually examine you. Read the standards page for the full relationship, or skip straight to the offices.
Bright line
Emergency first. 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. Back pain with new numbness in the groin or inner thighs, or a back injury in a fall or crash that leaves you unable to stand, belongs in an emergency department before it belongs in any clinic.
