What Scoliosis Insider is
Scoliosis Insider is a small local health publication for people in the St. Louis metro who have a curve, or love someone who does. We write about what a curve means and does not mean, about the everyday back and neck complaints that come with one, about the daily drive across the rivers, and about the one specific moment when a car crash happens to a spine that already curves. We take the long view, and we write at the pace of a letter rather than a billboard.
We are not a clinic. We do not examine, diagnose, measure, or treat anyone. Nothing here is medical advice, and every page says so. We are also not a law office, and nothing here is legal advice or a comment on anybody's insurance dispute.
Who pays for it
Missouri Injury Clinic does. This desk is compensated for featuring the clinic, which is run by Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, a chiropractor with three rooms in the metro. That relationship is why the clinic is the only clinic we point to, why a "get seen this week" link appears on every page, and why we say on every page that the page is advertising. We think the honest version of a sponsored publication is one that tells you it is sponsored in the first breath, and then earns your attention anyway.
What the sponsorship does not buy: we do not write reviews of the clinic, we do not rank it against other providers, we do not invent services, hours, staff, prices, or statistics for it, and we do not describe any payment or insurance arrangement we cannot verify. We reproduce the three reader reviews the clinic itself publishes on its homepage, attributed as published, and no others.
Where the facts come from
Facts about the clinic come from one place: what Missouri Injury Clinic publishes on moinjuryclinic.com. That is its lanes (auto injuries, meaning diagnosis and a treatment plan after a crash; TBI and concussion rehab; sports injuries), its three rooms with their addresses and phone numbers, its hours including the daily 12 to 2 closure, its owner, and its tagline. If it is not published there, it is not published here. Hours are worth confirming on the call, and we say so.
Medical background facts are general and kept to what the reputable public sources say. When we state something a reader might doubt, we cite the source: the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases on scoliosis, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke on whiplash, MedlinePlus, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on head restraints and seat belts. We do not publish statistics we cannot trace to a source like those, and we avoid numbers that would only sound impressive.
The lines we will not cross
- We will not tell you a chiropractor, or anyone, can straighten your curve from a webpage.
- We will not put a number on anyone's claim, describe legal arrangements, or imply that the clinic is anything other than a chiropractic injury clinic.
- We will not tell you to avoid a hospital. The emergency note on every page is there because an injury clinic is built for planned care, and some things are not planned care.
- We will not sell devices from a sidebar, collect your email, or put a form on any page.
- We will not publish a reader's name, question, or details.
Corrections
If we have a fact wrong, a clinic hour, a phone number, a medical statement, we want to fix it and we will say that we did. Write to the desk through the clinic's contact page at moinjuryclinic.com and say it is for Scoliosis Insider. Corrections are made on the page they concern, and the issue date in the dateline is updated when they are.
How the desk is built
The photographs on these pages are either real and credited, like the Route 364 bridge on the long commute, or generated scenes, which we label as such in the caption and which never show a real patient, a real room at the clinic, or a real injury. The curve on our masthead is a plumb line with a spine drawn against it, capped by two vertebrae, and it is meant to say what the whole desk says: the straight line is the reference, the curve is the life, and both are worth measuring honestly.
The bright line, as on every page
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.
Reading is what we do. Examining is what the clinic does.
If you have a curve and a car just met it, the one thing this desk asks is that you get examined this week, at the room you can reach, with your curve named first.
Missouri Injury Clinic · Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC · rooms close 12 to 2 · all rooms
Advertising disclosureThis 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.