Three rooms, chosen by your drive.

Missouri Injury Clinic keeps rooms in Hazelwood, South County on Tesson Ferry, and O'Fallon on West Terra Lane. Many of our readers are nearest O'Fallon. Choose whichever room means the shortest, calmest drive for you this week, and call it before you leave the house. Every room closes from 12 to 2 each day, and the O'Fallon room runs Wednesday and Friday by appointment, so a phone call is not a formality. It is how you avoid arriving at a closed door.

The three rooms

Pick the room you can drive to this week

This desk is not going to pretend it knows your commute. It does know that late in pregnancy a long drive is its own kind of strain, that a sore neck makes shoulder checks miserable, and that a twenty-minute trip you can make calmly beats a ten-minute trip across a highway you dread. Pick by the drive, not by the name on the door. All three rooms publish the same lane for a crash: an exam, findings in writing, and a treatment plan.

If someone else is driving you, pick the room that is easier for them to reach during the hours above, and let them read the partner's page while you rest.

The 12 to 2 closure

All three rooms close from noon to two every day. The clinic publishes the closure as time for meetings. For you it means the morning block ends at noon and the afternoon block starts at two, and that a call at 12:30 will ring unanswered without anything being wrong. Plan the drive for the morning or for mid afternoon, and if the morning is the only window that works around your obstetric appointments, say so when you call.

What to say on the phone

Four things, in any order: that it is an auto injury, that you are pregnant, how far along you are, and the date of the crash. Then ask what they want you to bring. If your OB or midwife gave you any instruction about other providers, read it to them exactly as it was written down. The getting seen page covers the rest of the visit, and the record page explains why the written findings matter.

Who runs the clinic

Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, a chiropractor. He is not a lawyer and this is not a law office. The clinic's published line is putting the CARE back in healthcare, and its published lanes are auto injuries, TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries. Addresses and hours above are reproduced from moinjuryclinic.com and are worth confirming on the call; this desk does not publish anything the clinic does not publish itself, which is why you will find no prices, no insurance claims, and no staff names here.

When a room is the wrong destination

An injury clinic is built for planned care. If the clinic hears your symptoms on the phone and sends you to an emergency room or back to your OB instead of booking you, that is the system working, not a wasted call.