Three rooms, one likely yours.

How to choose

The right room is the one you can actually reach this week, which is a different question from the one that is closest on a map. Our readers mostly live west of the Missouri River, in St. Charles County and the far west of St. Louis County, and for them the Lake St. Louis room in O'Fallon is the obvious call: it sits minutes from Highway K and the Route 364 and I-70 corridors. Note its hours carefully, because they are different from the other two. It is open Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 9 to 6, with Wednesday and Friday by appointment, so a Wednesday reader should call ahead rather than drive over.

Readers in Florissant, Hazelwood, Ferguson, and the rest of north county will find the North County room on Village Square in Hazelwood the shorter drive. Readers in Affton, Oakville, Mehlville, Lemay, and south county should look at the Tesson Ferry room, in Suite 200 at 11144 Tesson Ferry Road. Both run Monday through Thursday 9 to 6 and Friday 9 to 12.

The 12 to 2 closure

Every room closes from 12 to 2 each day. The clinic publishes this plainly, and it trips people up constantly: a noon call goes unanswered, the caller assumes the clinic is closed for the day, and the exam slides another week. Call in the morning or after two, and plan the drive so you are not arriving at 11:55. If you are calling on behalf of someone else, the handoff dispatch has the short script.

What to say when they answer

Two things. It was an auto injury, and you have scoliosis. The first puts you in one of the clinic's three published lanes (auto injuries, TBI and concussion rehab, sports injuries). The second tells the examiner before you arrive that your baseline is a curve, not a straight spine. Then take the earliest opening. Getting seen covers what to bring and what the first visit actually is.

Who runs the clinic

Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, a chiropractor. The clinic's line is "Putting the CARE back in Healthcare," and its facts, lanes, rooms, and hours are published at moinjuryclinic.com, which is the only source this desk uses for them. Hours are worth confirming on the call; we reproduce what the clinic publishes and we do not invent anything beyond it. We do not publish payment terms, insurance arrangements, or intake rules for a clinic we do not own. Ask the room directly and take the answer from them.

Before you drive

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 room sends you to an emergency room instead of booking you, that is the system working, not a wasted trip.

If you are reading this from a car that was just hit, you do not need to have decided anything about a claim before you get examined. If you already have an attorney, bring their contact so records can be sent where they need to go. Otherwise, bring your curve history, any ER paperwork, and a plain account of what feels different, and let the room do the rest.

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