Lab notes on how bodies stand
Readings sheet12 entries3 officesClosed daily 12 to 2
Posture is data. Read it, do not grade it.
The Lab treats how you stand and move as measurements, not moral failings. One finding repeats in the notebook: bodies guard after car crashes, and unexamined guarding quietly becomes the new normal. When the readings say something changed, the next step is an exam with written findings at Missouri Injury Clinic, three offices across the St. Louis metro.
Standing observations
Three things the notebook keeps recording.
Each observation below came off the same bench: a grid on the wall, a plumb line, and a ruled page. Read them as notes, then follow the entry that matches your week.
Guarding is a signal, not a flaw
After a crash, a body protects injured tissue by stiffening a neck, hiking a shoulder, shortening a stride. That is useful for a week and costly as a habit.
The Lab's protocol: a posture change after a known event, especially a collision, is a prompt to get examined, not a thing to will away. The guarding entry has the full note.
Day one readings are noisy
Soft tissue symptoms after a crash commonly register a day or three later. People feel fine trading insurance cards and wake up unable to turn their head.
So the Lab does not trust the scene-of-the-crash reading as a baseline. An exam inside the week meets the symptoms as they arrive. Hour by hour, here.
Heads change the readings too
A concussion alters balance, gaze stability, and how a person carries their head and shoulders, sometimes before anyone uses the word concussion.
The clinic's TBI lane names its tools: oculomotor rehab, neurofeedback, sensory motor integration, vagus nerve stimulation, Alpha Stim, exercise with oxygen, cognitive rehab. The head entry.
Notebook index
Every entry in the Lab, in reading order.
Start with the crash week if you were in a wreck this month. Start with desk years if nothing happened and you are just stiff. Everything else is adjacent.
After the wreck: the crash week, hour by hour
What the readings do in the first hour, the first night, day two, day three, and the first week after a collision, and why the Lab schedules the exam inside that window.
The first exam protocol
What the first visit at Missouri Injury Clinic actually is: history, exam, findings, a written plan. What to bring, what to say, and the ER bright line.
A lab is only as good as its notebook
What a dated injury exam is, what it is not, and why the Lab treats the chart as a care document first.
Guarding: how a body protects itself
The protective posture after injury, why it feels like nothing, and how it turns into the new normal if nobody measures it.
Head readings: concussion and balance
Fog, headache, screen intolerance, and balance drift as data points, and the named tools in the clinic's TBI lane.
The headrest and the driving posture
What a head restraint is for, how the seat shapes a neck on impact, and what to look at in your own car this week.
Desk years or crash week
Telling slow stiffness from a sudden change, and why an exam is the instrument that separates them.
The north county corridor
I-270, Lindbergh, the Chain of Rocks crossing, and the Hazelwood office at the center of it.
Three offices, fully specified
Hazelwood, Tesson Ferry, and O'Fallon, with addresses, phones, hours, and the daily 12 to 2 closure.
Questions the Lab gets asked
Is my posture bad, can a crash change it, how fast can I be seen, and what the concussion lane involves.
About the Lab
Who writes this, what it covers, the advertising relationship in plain words, and how facts are sourced.
Geography of the desk
The north county corridor, where the readings get taken.
This desk sits in north St. Louis County, where I-270 carries the commute across the river at the Chain of Rocks and Lindbergh Boulevard runs through Hazelwood. The clinic's North County office is on Village Square in Hazelwood, a short drive from both. The Lab's working rule is simple: pick the office you can actually reach this week, not the one with the best address.
Read the corridor entry or go straight to the three offices.
The field site
Missouri Injury Clinic, three offices that can see you.
Run by Joseph L. Hollingsworth, DC. Motto: putting the CARE back in Healthcare. Three published lanes: auto injuries with diagnosis and a written treatment plan, TBI and concussion rehab, and sports injuries. Every office closes daily from 12 to 2, so call in the morning or after two.
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
Lake St. Louis, 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
A documented exam this week protects your health and your options. You do not need to have decided anything about a claim before you get examined. If you already have an attorney, bring their contact so records can be sent where they need to go. What the first visit is.
Recorded remarks
Three 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
The Lab does not collect or write reviews. These three are reproduced from the clinic's own homepage and nothing is added to them.
The one action this desk sells
If something changed after a crash, get it measured this week.
A history, an exam, findings, and a written plan. A clean exam resets your baseline with confidence; a positive finding starts treatment while it is early. Either outcome beats letting a guarded posture become permanent.
Advertising material for Missouri Injury Clinic. Three offices; pick the one you can drive to this week. Closed daily 12 to 2.
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. Everything on this desk is educational and is not medical advice.