The St. Louis Back Pain Guide is a small publication with a narrow job. It explains, in plain language, the two ways a back in this metro usually gets hurt, the crash and the job, and it points to one practical next step: a documented exam this week at Missouri Injury Clinic. That sentence contains the whole editorial mission and the whole commercial relationship, and this page exists to say both parts out loud.
The advertising relationship, stated plainly
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, rooms, and hours the clinic publishes on moinjuryclinic.com. We do not write reviews, rank providers, or give medical or legal advice.
In practice that means: the clinic pays for this desk to exist. The desk writes about back pain and about the clinic. It does not write about other clinics, because it is not a directory and pretending to be one would be dishonest. It does not claim the clinic is the best, the top, or the only, because nobody can verify that and the desk will not say what it cannot verify. The word advertising appears on every page, at the top and the bottom, where a reader can see it.
What this desk covers
Back pain after a crash and back pain from work, in the St. Louis metro. The hour-by-hour pattern after a rear-end hit. What a first visit is. What a dated exam is and is not. The bright line between an emergency department and a planned exam. The roads where the metro's rear-end hits happen and the room nearest each one. Practical chapters on sitting, sleeping, and driving with a sore back before the appointment. A neighborhood guide for the south side, where most of this desk's readers live.
What it does not cover: diagnosis, imaging decisions, billing, coverage, claims, or anything a clinician should be telling you in a room. Everything here is educational and is not medical advice. It is not legal advice either, and the desk has no attorneys.
How facts are sourced
Clinic facts
Only what Missouri Injury Clinic publishes on moinjuryclinic.com, as of the date at the bottom of each chapter: three rooms with addresses, phones, and hours, including the daily 12 to 2 close; three lanes, auto injuries with diagnosis and a treatment plan, TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries; the named tools in the concussion lane; the motto; the owner, Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC; and three patient reviews, reproduced as written. No other staff, services, prices, statistics, or reviews appear here, because the clinic has not published them and the desk will not invent them.
Medical background
General and true. What a strain is, why soft-tissue pain is delayed, which symptoms are emergencies. Where a reader might reasonably doubt a statement, the chapter cites a federal health source, typically the National Institutes of Health at niams.nih.gov or medlineplus.gov, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at nhtsa.gov, or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at cdc.gov. The desk does not publish numbers it cannot point to.
Roads and neighborhoods
Written by people who drive them. The corridor chapter describes the metro's interstates as a commuter experiences them, not as an engineering survey. If a detail about a road or a neighborhood is wrong, tell us and it will be corrected.
Photographs
Two photographs on this site are real landmark images from Wikimedia Commons, credited in their captions. The rest are editorial illustrations generated for this publication to show a scene, an intersection in the rain, a loading dock at dawn, an exam room before the appointment, and they are captioned as scenes, not as documentary photographs of any specific place or person. No photograph on this site shows a patient.
Legal framing, and the lines this desk will not cross
The desk uses a small set of cleared sentences when it talks about records and claims, because the subject invites sleaze and the desk would rather be boring than sleazy. They are: a documented exam this week protects your health and your options. If a claim is ever part of your story, the dated record from the first exam is what everyone will ask for. If you already have an attorney, bring their contact so records can be sent where they need to go. The record is a care document first. You do not need to have decided anything about a claim before you get examined.
The desk will never talk about money from a claim, never describe attorney relationships the clinic does not have, never suggest treatment exists for any reason other than that you are hurt, and never imply that Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, is anything other than a chiropractor.
Corrections
If a fact on this site is wrong, a road, an hour, a phone number, a medical statement, write to the desk through the clinic's contact page and say which page and which sentence. Corrections are made on the page and the date at the bottom of the chapter is updated. The desk would rather fix a sentence than defend it.
The emergency line, one more time
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. Every page on this site carries that line at the bottom because a guide to getting examined has to start by telling you when not to wait for an appointment.
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The whole guide, in one sentence: get examined this week.
The desk is paid to say it. The advice would be the same if it were not. Pick the room you can drive to and call it in the morning.
Advertising. This guide is compensated for featuring Missouri Injury Clinic. Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, is a chiropractor, not a lawyer. Hours are worth confirming on the call.