About this desk and how it is edited

Sports Injury Ledger is a small editorial desk published for athletes, parents, coaches, and trainers in the St. Louis metro. It is built around one idea borrowed from every training log ever kept: if something matters, you write it down and you date it. We apply that idea to injuries, the one category of setback most athletes never record, and we point every entry at one action, getting examined this week. This page says who we are, how we are paid, where the facts come from, and how to correct us.

The advertising relationship, stated plainly

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, rooms, and hours the clinic publishes on moinjuryclinic.com. We do not write reviews, rank providers, or give medical or legal advice.

Put even more plainly: every "get examined" link on this desk goes to Missouri Injury Clinic, and we are paid for that. We think the clinic's opening entry, a history, an exam, written findings, and a dated plan, is exactly the entry athletes should be writing, which is why we agreed to the arrangement. You should read everything here knowing it. The advertising disclosure appears in the footer of every page and in the featured clinic block on the home page, and we will not shrink it.

What this desk covers

Three lanes, because those are the three the clinic publishes and because they are the three that end athletic seasons: sports injuries, auto injuries, meaning the crash on the way to or from the field, and concussion. Within those we write about timing, the first two weeks after a hit; the first visit, what it is and what to bring; the record, what a dated exam is and is not; the comeback, as a data problem; head hits without a knockout; the crash athletes shrug off; the difference between sore and hurt; and the handoff for the adult holding the phone. We do not cover treatment techniques, supplements, gear, or anything we would have to guess at.

Facts come from one sourceEvery address, hour, phone number, lane, tool, and review about Missouri Injury Clinic on this desk comes from moinjuryclinic.com, and nowhere else. If it is not published there, it is not published here. That includes billing, insurance, staffing, visit counts, and outcomes, none of which we describe.

Medical background is general and citedWhen we state something about the body that a reader might doubt, delayed soft-tissue pain, concussion signs, whiplash, we keep it general, keep it true, and cite a .gov source: the CDC's HEADS UP program, NINDS, NHTSA. We do not cite studies we have not read and we do not quote statistics.

Reviews are reproduced, never writtenThe three reviews on the home page are the three the clinic publishes, attributed as published. We do not solicit, collect, edit, or write reviews, and we do not rank providers.

No legal anythingThe clinic is a chiropractic clinic run by Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC. Nobody here is a lawyer. We do not coordinate claims, describe attorney relationships, hold paperwork, or speak to insurers. The only sentence we publish on the subject is the true one: a dated exam is a care document first, and if a claim is ever part of your story, that record is what everyone asks for.

The emergency line is on every pageChest pain, a sudden severe headache, one-sided weakness or numbness, trouble speaking, loss of bowel or bladder control, or a head injury with vomiting or worsening confusion is an emergency room trip right now. That strip sits at the top of every page on this desk, above the masthead, on purpose.

Photographs are labeledThe home page hero and the Francis Field photograph are real photographs; the 1904 image is from Wikimedia Commons and carries its credit in the caption. The remaining scene photographs on this desk are generated illustrations of ordinary places, a weight room, a bleacher, an exam room, a parking lot, and show no people, no injuries, and no real clinic.

No forms, no captureThis desk has no contact form, no email capture, no chat widget, and no tracking scripts. The only thing you can do here is read and then call a room.

Who writes it

The desk is written and edited by the Sports Injury Ledger editorial desk, a publication that is not the clinic and has no clinical staff. We are readers of training logs, not clinicians, and every entry says so. Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, does not write for this desk and does not review it; what we say about his clinic is what his clinic publishes, checked against the source on the date at the bottom of each entry.

Black and white photograph of a full grandstand at Francis Field in St. Louis during the 1904 Olympic Games — Francis Field, 1904. St. Louis athletes have had their entries recorded for a long time. Photo: Jessie Tarbox Beals (attributed), via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Corrections

If we have an address, an hour, a phone number, a lane, or a tool wrong, we want to know, and we will fix it and note the date. If a room's hours have changed and we have not caught up, the same. Write to the desk through the clinic's contact page, and say which entry and which line. We do not publish an email address because we do not collect email, and we do not want yours.

What this desk is not

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. It is not a clinic and cannot examine anyone. It is not a law office and has no opinion on your claim. It is not a review site and does not rank anyone. It is a ledger with one column, and the column says: get examined this week, get it written down, date it.

The rooms, once more

Missouri Injury Clinic, tagline Putting the CARE back in Healthcare. O'Fallon at 2163 West Terra Lane, Hazelwood at 14 Village Square Shop Ctr, and Tesson Ferry at 11144 Tesson Ferry Road, Suite 200. Hours, phones, and the daily 12 to 2 closure are on the rooms entry. Start reading at after the hit.

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.

A ledger with one column.

The short entry