Vol. I · A journal for a brick town Eleven entries on the week after a wreck

The front page · The week after a wreck

Kirkwood is built to last. After a wreck, make sure you are too.

Between I-44, Lindbergh, Manchester, and Big Bend, this old railroad town sits in a lattice of fast roads. When one of them puts you in a crash, the Journal's counsel is short: get examined this week. The Tesson Ferry office of Missouri Injury Clinic is about fifteen minutes down Lindbergh.

Book an exam this week All three offices and hours

Tesson Ferry office: (314) 530-5480 · Mon to Thu 9 to 6, Fri 9 to 12, closed daily 12 to 2

Kirkwood brick in afternoon light, the sturdy old material this journal borrows its temperament from. — Plate I Brick storefronts and iron lamp posts under a gray afternoon sky. The Journal borrows its temperament from the material: plain, heavy, and meant to outlast the weather.

The Journal's standing entry

An exam this week beats a guess this season.

Three lines the Journal prints in every season, because they stay true after every kind of crash on every road around the brick.

Entry 01 · The delay Crash injuries arrive late.

The neck that felt merely stiff at the scene often turns into real pain by day two or three. Low backs and rattled heads follow the same clock.

Entry 02 · The visit The first visit ends in writing.

Crash history, an exam of how the neck and back move, a diagnosis if the findings support one, and a treatment plan you can repeat out loud.

Entry 03 · The second use The record is a care document first.

If a claim is ever part of your story, the dated record from the first exam is what everyone will ask for. You do not have to decide anything about that before you get examined.

The roads around the brick

Ordinary crashes, predictable injuries.

Kirkwood Road at rush hour, the I-44 ramps, Manchester through Des Peres and Glendale, Big Bend by the college.

The crashes here are ordinary metro crashes, which means the injuries are the ordinary delayed kind: necks, low backs, and the occasional quietly rattled head.

Ordinary does not mean harmless. It means predictable, and predictable injuries reward prompt exams. The Journal keeps a running entry on the roads themselves in Lindbergh, I-44, and the roads around the brick.

A line of brake lights on a wet suburban arterial at dusk, an overpass ahead and brick storefronts along the right side. — Brake lights stacked up under an overpass on a wet evening. Most of the county's wrecks happen at exactly this speed, which is to say slowly.

Featured clinic · Advertising

The clinic down Lindbergh: Missouri Injury Clinic.

Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC · "Putting the CARE back in Healthcare" · moinjuryclinic.com

Missouri Injury Clinic keeps its south office at 11144 Tesson Ferry Road, Suite 200, an easy run from Kirkwood via Lindbergh or I-270. The clinic is run by Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC, a chiropractor. Its published lanes are auto injuries with diagnosis and a treatment plan after a crash, TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries. Two more offices, in Hazelwood and O'Fallon, cover the wider metro.

Every office closes from 12 to 2 each day. Call in the morning or after 2, say it was a crash, and ask for an exam this week.

Nearest to Kirkwood

South County, Tesson Ferry

11144 Tesson Ferry Road, Suite 200
Saint Louis, MO 63123

Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm
Fri 9am to 12pm
Closed daily 12 to 2

(314) 530-5480
Ask for an exam at Tesson Ferry →

North County

Hazelwood

14 Village Square Shop Ctr
Hazelwood, MO 63042

Mon to Thu 9am to 6pm
Fri 9am to 12pm
Closed daily 12 to 2

(314) 627-1411
Ask for an exam in Hazelwood →

St. Charles County

Lake St. Louis, O'Fallon

2163 West Terra Lane
O'Fallon, MO 63366

Mon, Tue, Thu 9am to 6pm
Wed and Fri by appointment
Closed daily 12 to 2

(636) 280-0990
Ask for an exam in O'Fallon →

Book an exam this week What the first visit is

As published on moinjuryclinic.com

Three patient reviews, quoted as printed.

The Journal does not write reviews or rank providers. These three are reproduced from the clinic's own homepage, word for word, and nothing has been added to them.

"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

The town the Journal is kept in

A railroad town that keeps its records.

Kirkwood grew up around a rail line in the 1850s and kept the depot, the brick, and the habit of writing things down. That habit is the whole editorial position of this desk. A recovery, like a town, is easier to trust when it has dated entries.

The Journal is advertising material published for Missouri Injury Clinic. It says so on every page, in the masthead entry and in the footer below, because a reader in a brick town expects to be told plainly who is paying for the ink.

The stone Kirkwood train station at blue hour, its round tower and lit eaves beside the tracks. — The Kirkwood station at blue hour, the limestone depot that gave the town its center. Photo: Philip Leara, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

The one action

Pick the office you can drive to this week.

Tesson Ferry is the near office for Kirkwood, Glendale, Des Peres, Webster, and Oakland. Say it was a crash, bring what you know about it, and leave with findings and a written plan. If you already have an attorney, bring their contact so records can be sent where they need to go.

Book an exam this week (314) 530-5480

Tesson Ferry office · 11144 Tesson Ferry Rd, Suite 200
Mon to Thu 9 to 6, Fri 9 to 12, closed 12 to 2

The emergency line, first. 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.

Advertising disclosure. 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.

Educational reading. Not medical advice, not a diagnosis. The Journal cannot examine anyone.

Kirkwood is built to last. After a wreck, make sure you are too.

An exam this week beats a guess this season.

Every entry in the Journal, in reading order.

The crash took seconds. Handle the next seven days well.

Three days later

Fifteen minutes to the exam table

A journal keeps entries. So should your recovery.

Lindbergh, I-44, and the roads around the brick

The Manchester Road commute

Friday night heads

Emergency room or clinic

Three offices, one standard

Questions readers ask

About the Journal and its standards