The ledger · Vol. 1
Athletes log everything. Log the injury too.
You track sets, splits, and sleep. Then something pops on the field, or a car hits yours on the drive to it, and the most important entry in your log is the one most people never write: a dated exam of what actually happened. This desk is about closing that gap and coming back on evidence instead of feel.
The standing entry
Guessing turns a two-week problem into a season.
Every athlete knows the drill for training: write the number down, compare it to last week, adjust. Almost nobody does that with an injury. They test it in warmups, tell the coach it is fine, and negotiate with it for a month. The alternative is boring and it works: get examined, get the findings on paper, follow a plan with dates on it, and measure the comeback the way you measure everything else.
Entry one, in every lane
- 01History
- 02Exam
- 03Findings
- 04Written plan
Missouri Injury Clinic works the sports injury lane alongside auto injuries and concussion rehab. Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, runs three offices across the St. Louis metro, and the opening entry in every lane is the same: a history, an exam, findings, and a written treatment plan. If the injury came from a crash, the date on that first exam also does a second job for anything that follows.
Start with the first fourteen days, then read what the first visit is.
The entries
Eleven entries, one action.
Read in order or jump to the one that matches your week. Every entry ends the same way: get examined this week, get it written down, and date it.
From the hit to the comeback01 to 04
01After the hit: the first fourteen days
Hour zero through day fourteen. Why the worst entry is usually day two, what is normal, what is not, and the line where the ledger says go get examined.
Entry one: the first visit, explained
What the first visit actually produces: history, exam, findings, a written plan. What to bring, what to say on the phone, and the emergency bright line.
The dated record: what an injury exam is
A care document first. What a dated exam holds, why the date matters for the comeback and for anything that follows a crash, and what it is not.
Return to play: the comeback is a data problem
Baseline, plan, dated visits, honest load. Why athletes who measure the comeback return, and athletes who guess linger at eighty percent.
The hard calls05 to 08
05Head hits without a knockout
Most concussions never involve a knockout. Fog, balance, light, sleep, mood: the entries athletes hide, the emergency line, and what rehab involves.
The drive home: when the season ends in a car
A rear-end hit in the practice lot loads the neck harder than any workout. Why athletes shrug off crash injuries, and why the crash belongs in the log.
Sore or hurt: the entry most athletes get wrong
Soreness has a pattern. Injury breaks it. How to tell the two apart by timing and symmetry, and when a week of waiting is the wrong call.
For coaches and parents: the handoff
You are holding the phone, not the injury. How to hand an athlete to the clinic cleanly, what to say, what to write down, and where to stop.
Where, what, and who09 to 11
09Three offices: O'Fallon, Hazelwood, Tesson Ferry
O'Fallon, Hazelwood, Tesson Ferry. Addresses, hours, phones, the daily 12 to 2 closure. Pick the one you can drive to this week.
Questions athletes ask the ledger
Twelve questions athletes, parents, and coaches actually ask, answered straight. Game injuries, crash injuries, head hits, and what the first visit is.
About this desk and how it is edited
Who we are, what we cover, the advertising relationship stated plainly, where the facts come from, and how to send a correction.
Every entry closes on the same line.
Get examined this week →Featured clinic
Where the entry gets written.
Missouri Injury Clinic · Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC
Three offices in the St. Louis metro
Putting the CARE back in Healthcare
A chiropractic injury clinic with three published lanes: sports injuries, auto injuries, and TBI and concussion rehab. Every office runs the same opening entry, an exam with written findings and a treatment plan. Pick the office you can actually drive to this week. All three close from 12 to 2 every day, so aim for a morning or an afternoon slot.
Three lanes the clinic publishes
Sports injuries
Return-to-training care for athletes. The knee that buckled on a cut, the shoulder that stopped trusting the throw, the back that quit on a heavy pull. Examined, written down, planned.
Auto injuries
Diagnosis and a treatment plan after a crash. A rear-end hit in the parking lot is an injury even if you walked away from it, and the soreness that shows up two days later is not a workout.
Concussion rehab
Rehabilitative therapy after the acute phase, with tools the clinic names on its site: oculomotor rehab, neurofeedback, sensory motor integration, exercise with oxygen, vagus nerve stimulation, Alpha Stim, and cognitive rehab software.
Lanes as published on moinjuryclinic.com. If your problem is something else, say so on the phone and let the office tell you yes or no before you drive.
Entry office for our readers
O'Fallon
2163 West Terra LaneO'Fallon, MO 63366
Mon, Tue, Thu 9am to 6pm
Wed and Fri by appointment
Closed daily 12 to 2
North County
Hazelwood
14 Village Square Shop CtrHazelwood, MO 63042
Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm
Fri 9am to 12pm
Closed daily 12 to 2
South County
Tesson Ferry
11144 Tesson Ferry Road, Suite 200Saint Louis, MO 63123
Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm
Fri 9am to 12pm
Closed daily 12 to 2
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, offices, and hours the clinic publishes on moinjuryclinic.com. We do not write reviews, rank providers, or give medical or legal advice.
In their words
Three lines the clinic publishes.
These are the only reviews this desk reproduces, exactly as the clinic publishes them. We do not collect, solicit, or write reviews.
- 01
Great service and wonderful people
Byron Coffee, as published on moinjuryclinic.com - 02
Great service lovely staff!
Jaymee Golley, as published on moinjuryclinic.com - 03
Missouri Injury Clinics is the best place for treatment.
Stephanie Griffin, as published on moinjuryclinic.com
Everything on this desk is educational. It is not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for an exam by a licensed clinician.