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.
Bulletin desk
Ballwin, Ellisville, Manchester, Des Peres,
Wildwood, Town and Country, Chesterfield
Bulletins for West County
Manchester Road, Highway 141, Clayton Road, Route 100, and the 270 ramps produce a steady feed of collisions. The Wire skips the filler and transmits the useful part: what a crash does to a body, and where the near exam room is. For most of West County that is Missouri Injury Clinic's Tesson Ferry office.
Three bulletins // Read in order
The neck and low back typically report one to three days after impact, once the adrenaline clears and the sleep is bad. Concussion symptoms can be quieter still: fog, a short fuse, a screen that suddenly hurts to look at.
Booking the exam early means the findings meet the symptoms on arrival instead of chasing them from behind. That is the whole argument for calling on day one.
The lag, explained →Missouri Injury Clinic, Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC. Three lanes as published: auto injuries with diagnosis and a written treatment plan, TBI and concussion rehab, sports injuries. The tagline on the wall is putting the CARE back in Healthcare.
From Ballwin, Manchester, Des Peres, or Ellisville, the Tesson Ferry office off 270 is the short route. O'Fallon and Hazelwood back it up across the metro.
Offices and hours →An exam produces a record because that is how treatment works: what happened, what the exam found, what the plan is, and the date it was written down. The record is a care document first.
If a claim is ever part of your story, the dated record from that first exam is what everyone will ask for. You do not need to have decided anything about a claim before you get examined.
What the record is →The numbers // 2023
From the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Traffic Safety Compendium, 2023, the latest year the Patrol has published. Counts, not rates. No clinic is rated or ranked.
Sources: Missouri State Highway Patrol, Missouri Traffic Safety Compendium 2023, tables 17.01, 1.27, and 1.14. Shares are the Wire's arithmetic on the published counts.
Why a wire, and why here
Ballwin, Ellisville, Manchester, Des Peres, Wildwood, Town and Country, and the Chesterfield end of the county share one spine, Manchester Road, and one fast crossing, Highway 141. Add Clayton, Clarkson, Big Bend, Olive, and the 270 and 64 interchanges and you have a corridor that is almost entirely signals, merges, and left turns across traffic.
That geometry produces a specific kind of crash, the low-to-moderate speed rear-end and intersection hit, and a specific kind of injury: soft tissue in the neck and back, and the occasional concussion nobody noticed at the scene. None of it is exotic. All of it is worth examining promptly, and the Wire exists to say that plainly and point at the near office.
The files // Full index
The injury pattern of a West County collision, hour by hour and day by day, from the scene to the end of the first week.
Where the corridor produces its crashes, what each road tends to do to a body, and why the rear-end hit is the local signature.
Read →The lagWhy a neck that felt fine at the scene will not turn on Tuesday, and why the exam should be booked before the symptoms arrive.
Read →The quiet oneNo windshield, no blackout, still a concussion. The signs, the screens, and the rehab lane the clinic publishes.
Read →DispatchWhat the first visit at Missouri Injury Clinic actually is, what to bring, what to say on the call, and the bright line for the ER.
Read →The logWhat a dated injury exam is and is not, why the timestamp matters, and how to hand off someone who is still hurting.
Read →TriageThe symptoms that are an ER trip right now, the ones that are a clinic call this week, and what to do when it is both.
Read →For sendersFor the parent, coach, office manager, or friend who is making the call on someone else's behalf.
Read →The officesAddresses, hours, the 12 to 2 closure, and which office is the drive you can actually make this week.
Read →Quick answersWhich office is nearest Ballwin, whether a minor crash is worth an exam, what to do if a week has passed, and more.
Read →StandardsWho runs the Wire, who pays for it, how facts are sourced, and how to send a correction.
Read →The numbersWhat the Patrol counted inside thirteen West County cities, and what those counts are not.
Read →The citiesChesterfield to Ellisville by severity, by people injured, and by injury share.
Read →The causesTwo lines on thousands of Missouri injury crash reports, read with the counted-more-than-once rule.
Read →The calendarOctober, not January, and why February's low count is partly the calendar.
Read →Featured clinic // Paid placement
Three lanes as the clinic publishes them: auto injuries (diagnosis and a treatment plan after a crash), TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries. Tagline on the door: putting the CARE back in Healthcare.
Three offices
One chiropractor
Pick the drive you can make this week
Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm
Fri 9am to 12pm
Closed daily 12 to 2
Mon, Tue, Thu 9am to 6pm
Wed and Fri by appointment
Closed daily 12 to 2
Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm
Fri 9am to 12pm
Closed daily 12 to 2
Hours and addresses are copied from moinjuryclinic.com. Confirm them on the call. Dr. Hollingsworth is a chiropractor; this is a chiropractic injury clinic, not a law office.
Patient reviews // As published by the clinic
"Great service and wonderful people"
Byron Coffee, as published on moinjuryclinic.com
"Great service lovely staff!"
Jaymee Golley, as published on moinjuryclinic.com
"Missouri Injury Clinics is the best place for treatment."
Stephanie Griffin, as published on moinjuryclinic.com
Wire // One action
A documented exam this week protects your health and your options. Call the Tesson Ferry office, say it is a crash exam, and take the first slot you can drive to. If you already have an attorney, bring their contact so records can be sent where they need to go.
The bright line. 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.
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