About the Journal: who keeps it, who pays for it, how it checks.

Joint Pain Journal is a local health desk with one subject and one prescription. The subject is the joints that absorb St. Louis car crashes: the shoulder under the belt, the knee at the dash, the wrist on the wheel, the stack of small joints in the neck. The prescription is an exam this week at Missouri Injury Clinic, findings on dated paper, and a written plan. This page says who keeps the desk, what it covers, who pays for it, and how it checks what it prints.

Who keeps the desk

The Journal is written and edited by a small editorial desk, not by the clinic's staff. The desk writes in the first person plural and signs entries as the Journal. It does not employ clinicians and it does not examine anyone. When an entry describes what an exam includes, it is describing what a competent injury exam consists of in general and what Missouri Injury Clinic publishes about its own lanes, nothing more specific than that.

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.

That paragraph appears on every page of this site, and the Journal will not weaken it. The practical meaning: the clinic's name and rooms are here because the desk is paid to feature them, every link that goes to the clinic is marked as sponsored, and nothing on this site should be read as an independent ranking or recommendation. The Journal also runs no forms, collects no email addresses, and installs no chat widgets. The only door out of this site is the clinic's own website and its three phone numbers.

How facts are sourced

Clinic facts come from one place: moinjuryclinic.com, as published. That means the three rooms with their addresses, phones, and hours; the three lanes, auto injuries, TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries; the seven named concussion rehab tools; the owner's name, Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC; the tagline; and the three patient reviews reprinted on the home page, quoted whole and attributed. The Journal does not publish prices, accepted insurance, staff names, wait times, or outcomes, because the clinic does not publish them and the desk will not invent them. Where a reader needs one of those, the entry says "ask the clinic."

Medical background is kept general and true: what whiplash is, why soft-tissue pain is delayed, what a range-of-motion measurement is, when the emergency room is the right call. Where the desk states a fact a reader might doubt, it cites a public source such as the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Journal does not publish crash statistics, injury rates, or recovery percentages it cannot cite, and it prints no rankings of roads, intersections, or providers.

The bright line

Every page carries it, at the top and in the footer: 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. The Journal is for planned care that follows the emergencies, never instead of them.

What the Journal will not say

The desk keeps a list of phrases it will not print, and an automated gate checks every page against it before the page ships. In plain terms: nothing that puts a dollar figure on anyone's injury or claim; nothing describing legal relationships the clinic does not have; nothing implying the clinic or the desk is a law office, speaks to insurers, or coordinates claims; nothing promising an outcome or a schedule; nothing that labels a reader by what happened to them; nothing ranking the clinic against anyone. If a sentence on this site reads as legal advice, it is a mistake and the desk wants to hear about it.

The desk does say, and will keep saying, the five things it has cleared: a documented exam this week protects your health and your options; if a claim is ever part of your story, the dated record from the first exam is what everyone will ask for; if you already have an attorney, bring their contact so records can be sent where they need to go; the record is a care document first; and you do not need to have decided anything about a claim before you get examined.

Corrections

If a room's hours change, a phone number is wrong, or a medical statement is out of date, the Journal wants to fix it. Write to the desk through the clinic's contact page and say which entry and which line. Corrections are made in place and the entry's filed date is updated.

Editions

This is the South County edition, filed for readers along Tesson Ferry, Lindbergh, I-55, and I-270 south, with the Tesson Ferry room as the nearest. The other two rooms are listed on every page so that a reader anywhere in the metro can act on the same prescription. Entry 08 is the geographic entry; Entry 09 is the room list.

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