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At Injury Care Centers, our team understands how overwhelming it can be after a car accident. We see patients every day with injuries like whiplash, neck and back pain, herniated discs, concussions, and nerve problems that can cause numbness or weakness. Many of these injuries are soft-tissue related and don’t always show up right away, which is why it’s so important to get checked even if you feel okay at first.
Our Orange Park team works together to provide thorough evaluations and personalized care for every patient. We listen to your concerns, explain your options, and develop a treatment plan that fits your needs, so you always know what to expect as you heal.
If you or someone you love has been in a car accident in Orange Park, don’t wait for symptoms to worsen. Visit our Wells Road clinic, walk in on weekdays, or call us to get started. Our team is here to help you recover with confidence and clarity.
See a doctor who treats injuries every day. Crash forces land in the muscles, joints, discs, and nerves, and finding that damage takes an exam built for it, not a general check-up. Chiropractic physicians, physical medicine doctors, and medical doctors all treat crash patients, and each brings something different.
The strongest setup is a clinic where all three work together.
That is how ours are built. You might start with a chiropractic physician for hands-on care and rehab, and if your symptoms call for imaging, injections, or a prescription, the medical doctor and nurse practitioner are on the same treatment plan, reading the same chart and the same exam findings from your first visit. Nobody sends you off to start the story over with somebody who was not there when you were examined.
Under Florida’s no-fault law, a chiropractic physician licensed under chapter 460 is one of the providers who can deliver the initial services and care your auto insurance benefits depend on. So being seen at our Orange Park clinic within 14 days satisfies the requirement, no matter which of our clinicians you see.
Your primary care doctor can see you, and most are not set up for it. A standard appointment runs 10 to 15 minutes, a crash exam takes closer to an hour, and few primary care offices have imaging in the building or the billing setup for an auto insurance claim. None of that is a criticism. Your family doctor manages an enormous range of conditions and does it well, and for most of what you will deal with this year, they are the right call.
Crash injuries are a narrow specialty with a different exam. We measure how far your neck turns before it stops, test reflexes and strength muscle by muscle. And check for numbness along specific nerve paths, then write all of it down as numbers we can compare against in a month. That record is what shows whether you are improving, and it is the part a rushed appointment cannot produce.
Keep seeing your regular doctor for everything else. Come to us for the crash.
A crash exam works through this list in order of what the impact makes likely, not what hurts loudest. Neck and back come first: whiplash, disc injuries, sciatica, and the joint pain that follows a sudden load. Then the joints that brace against impact, meaning shoulders, knees, and wrists. Then head and nerve: concussion, post-crash headaches, and the numbness or weakness that means a nerve is involved.
There is a pattern useful to know about, because it catches people out. The loudest injury on day one often is not the most important one. A seat belt bruise across the shoulder is painful and visible, so it gets described first and at length, while the neck joints that took the same forces are quieter and are the ones still limiting you in three months. That is why your doctor examines areas you have not complained about.
Pain that started before the crash. A collision often aggravates something you already had. Old back trouble, arthritis, a shoulder that has ached for years. Tell your doctor what was there beforehand, because it changes what the findings mean.
We treat the full range of injuries and ongoing pain across the practice, including plenty of patients who were never in an accident at all. The complete list is on our injury clinic page.
Plan on about an hour, and almost all of it is examination.
The history comes first, and it is more specific than people expect. Which direction the impact came from, whether you were stopped or moving, whether you saw it coming, where your head was turned at the moment of contact, whether your foot was on the brake. And whether your headrest was set high enough to catch your head. A rear-end hit at a light and a side impact at a junction load the body in completely different directions. So those answers decide what gets examined most closely.
The physical exam then works through it in order: range of motion measured in each direction, strength tested muscle group by muscle group, reflexes at the biceps, triceps, and knee. And sensation mapped along each nerve path instead of described in general terms. Where a nerve is involved, the pattern of numbness tells us which level in your spine is irritated.
We write the numbers down, and that part matters more than it sounds. “45 degrees of neck rotation to the right” is something we can measure again in three weeks and tell you honestly whether you are better. “Neck pain” is not, and there is no going back for it later.
If the exam raises a question a scan can answer, we order it that day. You leave knowing your diagnosis, your treatment plan, how often you will need to come in, and what would change any of it.
Tell your doctor everything that has changed since the crash, even things that seem unrelated. Where the pain is and whether it travels. What makes it worse.
What time of day it is worst. And what you have stopped doing since the accident, which tells your doctor more than a pain score.
Most people under-report, and there is a good reason for it. Sitting still in a quiet exam room is when almost every crash injury feels its best, so it is easy to forget what mornings are like. Write it down at home the night before instead. A list made at 9 pm catches what a 2 pm appointment will not.
Things patients leave out that we always want to hear: jaw pain or a clicking jaw, ringing in the ears, sleep that broke after the crash, trouble concentrating at work, unusual irritability or tiredness. And anxiety about getting back behind the wheel.
Not always. Imaging gets ordered when your exam raises a specific question. X-rays show broken bones and spine alignment, while MRI shows the discs, ligaments, and nerves an X-ray cannot see. Many crash patients are diagnosed and treated on the physical exam alone, which is a good outcome and not a shortcut.
Digital X-ray is available in our clinics, so ruling out a fracture does not cost you a separate trip. Its limitation is useful to know: a clear film rules out a break and tells you nothing about soft tissue, which is where most crash damage lives. That is why “my X-ray was fine” and “I am not hurt” are two different sentences.
We also will not order a scan you do not need. Imaging without a clear question usually turns up something minor that has been sitting there for years. And chasing it sends your treatment in the wrong direction while you pay for it.
Our MRI is at the University Boulevard South location in Jacksonville. There is no MRI at our Orange Park clinic, so when your exam calls for one, we book you there instead of referring you outside the practice. It is a drive up the 295, and we only send you when the answer will change your treatment.
That deserves a straight explanation, because it affects how your care runs here.
Most crash patients in Orange Park never need an MRI. The diagnosis comes from the exam, the treatment starts on Wells Road, and the whole course happens locally. Imaging is considered when symptoms point to a disc or nerve root, when weakness is present, or when you are not improving as the exam predicted.
At that point, the question is whether the scan will change what we do. If it will, the drive is worth making, and we schedule it. If it will not, we say so and continue treating you here.
The advantage of it being our own location is that the doctor who examined you reads the result against their own findings. You are not waiting on a report from an outside facility written by somebody who never met you, and you are not repeating your history to a third practice.
Digital X-ray, nerve conduction studies, EEG, and brain injury evaluation are all available without leaving the practice.
Your doctor is choosing between these based on what the exam found, not working through a standard package. Two people with the same crash and different findings get different plans.
Hands-on care and rehab do most of the work for most crash patients: chiropractic adjustments for restricted joints, soft-tissue work for the muscle that tightens around them, then physical medicine and rehab to rebuild strength and load tolerance. Where a disc is involved, spinal decompression takes pressure off the affected level.
When pain is not improving, we offer laser, shockwave, TECAR, HEIT, electrical muscle stimulation, and therapeutic ultrasound. Our medical doctor can add injections or prescriptions. Regenerative options, including our Biotarget Therapy program, start with a medical evaluation. Telemedicine covers follow-ups that do not require an in-person exam.
We review the plan as you go. If your measurements are not moving when they should be, we change the approach or investigate further instead of booking another six weeks of the same thing.
Most crash patients with muscle and joint injuries improve over four to eight weeks. Disc and nerve injuries take longer and run less predictably. Your doctor gives you an estimate after the first exam and rechecks your measurements as you go, so the plan matches how you are actually responding.
Treatment usually follows a shape. The first two weeks are shorter, more frequent visits aimed at calming things down and restoring movement. Weeks three to six shift toward strengthening, visits spread out, and you take on more of the work at home. After that, most people are done or close to it.
Two things slow recovery more than anything else: resting too much, which weakens the muscles supporting your spine, and quitting the home exercises the moment the pain eases. That second one is the most common reason somebody is back a year later with the same neck.
Your medical record is the only lasting account of what the crash did to you, and people who were not there will read it later.
Four things belong in it from day one: how the crash happened in enough detail to picture it, what the exam actually found and not only what you reported, your baseline measurements, and the treatment plan. If you have to miss two weeks because of childcare, a work trip, or an unrelated illness, tell us. We would far sooner write down the reason than leave an unexplained gap in your chart.
We release your records to you or your attorney whenever you ask. We treat the injury and leave the claim to you.
Within 14 days. Under Florida’s no-fault law, your auto insurance covers medical care only if you receive initial services and care within 14 days of the accident. Sooner is better, and not only for the paperwork. Coming in early gets your symptoms on record while they are still developing.
There is a second step most people never hear about. Your policy can pay up to $10,000 in medical benefits, but only once a medical doctor, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner confirms you had an emergency medical condition. Without that confirmation, insurers usually cap it at $2,500. We have both on staff, so that step happens inside the practice.
Bring your auto insurance card and your health insurance card if you have one. If you have neither, we will still see you, and our team will go through your options before treatment starts.
Come to a follow-up appointment anyway. An emergency room checks for injuries that are dangerous right now, such as bleeding, fractures, and head trauma. It is not designed to diagnose and treat muscle, joint, and disc injuries that surface over the following days, which is why so many crash patients are discharged with instructions to follow up and never do.
Bring whatever they gave you: discharge paperwork, X-ray or CT images, and anything you were prescribed. We will start from what is known instead of repeating tests you have already had.
An emergency room visit usually counts as your initial care under the 14-day rule. Call 904-783-0008 if you want that checked against your policy.
Part of a doctor’s job is telling you when you are in the wrong building. These are the symptoms where the answer is an emergency room, not us.
Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room if you have loss of consciousness, a headache that keeps getting worse, repeated vomiting, confusion or trouble speaking, numbness or weakness in an arm or leg, loss of bladder or bowel control, severe or quickly worsening pain, chest pain, or trouble breathing.
Serious trauma in Clay County goes to HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, a Level II trauma center.
For everything else, come and see us.
A few questions sort out most clinics quickly, as there are a few main things to consider.
Do they focus on pain and injury care? Clinics that also handle general illnesses like colds and flu often can’t devote as much time to each injury patient.
Is imaging available on site or within the same practice? If not, you may end up making extra trips and waiting longer for results.
Is there a medical doctor on staff? Having one available is important for emergency evaluations and for procedures like injections or prescriptions if your care needs to go further.
Will the clinic let you know when you’ve reached the end of your treatment? A good clinic sets clear goals and doesn’t keep you coming back without a reason.
Is the clinic easy for you to get to on a regular basis? Ongoing treatment means coming back several times, so convenience matters; otherwise, you may be tempted to stop before you’re fully recovered.
| Clinic | Address | Weekday hours |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Park, Wells Road | 1731 Wells Road, Suite 140 | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm |
Our Orange Park clinic serves Orange Park along with Fleming Island, Middleburg, Oakleaf Plantation, and the surrounding Clay County communities.
No appointment needed on weekdays, and we see patients with or without insurance. On weekends, call 904-783-0008 and ask for a same-day visit. After-hours on-call assistance with our doctors is available.
The doctor you see is the same across the practice, working from the same notes and the same treatment plan. If you commute into Jacksonville and one of our clinics there is easier on a weekday, your chart moves with you, and nobody asks you to explain the crash again from the beginning.
No, come straight to our Orange Park clinic during weekday hours; no referral and no appointment.
In Florida, your own auto insurance covers medical care after a crash if you are seen within 14 days. We also see patients without insurance and explain your options first.
Possibly. X-rays show bone. Discs, ligaments, muscles, and nerves do not appear on them, and those are the tissues most often hurt in a crash.
Our MRI is at the University Boulevard South location in Jacksonville. We book you there when your exam calls for one.
Yes, chiropractic physicians, a medical doctor, and a nurse practitioner all work from the same treatment plan.
Yes, bring any records or images you have, and we will continue from there instead of starting over.
Yes; drivers, passengers, cyclists, pedestrians, motorcycle riders, and rideshare passengers all get the same care.
We opened in 2010 because crash injuries kept getting missed. Soft-tissue damage does not show on an X-ray and does not look serious on day one, so it gets overlooked in a clinic seeing everything else that afternoon.
So we built clinics where treating pain and injuries is all we do. Injury Care Centers has chiropractic physicians, a medical doctor, and a nurse practitioner working together, with digital X-ray in the building and MRI at our University Boulevard South location. Treatment starts on your first visit. Dr. Adam Francis is the chiropractic physician covering Orange Park.
You have 14 days to protect your medical benefits, and less time than that before the details start to blur. Come to Wells Road on any weekday, or call 904-783-0008, and we will tell you what to bring. Addresses and hours for all our locations are on the site.
Last reviewed: August 2026
Medically reviewed by Dr. James Gilas, MD, Florida license no. ME92179
This page is general information and not a substitute for an exam by a clinician. If you have emergency symptoms, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
Florida law described here is general information, not legal advice. Deadlines and rights depend on your situation, and a lawyer is the right person to advise you on a claim.
