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At Injury Care Centers, our team takes a collaborative approach to chiropractic care. We know that each patient’s story is unique, so our doctors, therapists, and staff work together to make sure your care fits your needs and goals.
From your first visit, you’ll meet professionals who truly listen, explain your options, and create a treatment plan just for you. We combine hands-on chiropractic care with the latest rehab and pain relief techniques, all in one place, so your care is smooth and coordinated.
Whether you have back pain, neck pain, headaches, or you’re recovering from an injury, our team is here to help you move better and feel better. We’ll make sure you understand your condition and keep you involved in every step of your recovery.
Ready to feel better? Visit any of our Jacksonville clinics or call us to get started. Walk-ins are welcome, and our team is here to help you get back to living well.
A chiropractic physician checks how your joints and surrounding muscles move, finds where movement is limited or painful, and treats those areas using hands-on techniques, exercise, and other therapies.
The adjustment is usually the most recognized part of chiropractic care, and it consists of a controlled force applied to a joint that isn’t moving well. The popping sound is just gas releasing in the joint fluid. Adjustments are just one tool; much of your care also includes hands-on muscle work, targeted exercises, and guidance on what to do at home.
Our chiropractic physicians work closely with our medical and rehab teams. If you need imaging, medication, or a procedure, you won’t have to start over somewhere else; our team already knows your history and exam results.
Our chiropractic care focuses on musculoskeletal problems. Here are some of the conditions we commonly treat:
We don’t treat general illnesses; our doctors focus on injuries and musculoskeletal conditions. For a full list of what the practice is on our injury clinic page.
Some symptoms clearly point to a musculoskeletal problem; these are the ones we recommend getting checked.
Pain that changes with movement or feels better in certain positions is usually mechanical. Stiffness that’s worse after sitting or first thing in the morning is another sign.
A joint that gets stuck at a certain point, a neck that turns further one way than the other, or pain that happens with a specific movement, these are things a physical exam can pinpoint.
Headaches that start at the base of your skull and travel forward, especially after a neck injury, should be checked.
Many ongoing headaches actually come from the upper neck joints, not the head itself; tingling or weakness needs examining sooner. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything serious, and it does change what the examination looks for and how quickly a decision about imaging gets made.
Pain on one side only, especially if your body used to feel balanced, is worth mentioning. After an injury, this usually means one side took more strain, and the resulting restriction can return months later if not addressed.
It’s important to know the limits of chiropractic care, too. Here’s what you should be aware of:
Chiropractic care isn’t right for fractures, infections, tumors, active inflammatory arthritis, or worsening neurological symptoms. Our exam helps spot these issues, and if we find them, we’ll refer you to the right specialist.
Certain findings mean stopping and referring on. Some symptoms need immediate attention and a different kind of care. If you have loss of bladder or bowel control, numbness in the groin area, rapidly worsening weakness, or unexplained weight loss with back pain, you’ll be referred out right awa of none at all.
Osteoporosis, long-term steroid use, recent surgery, anticoagulant medication, and certain vascular conditions all change which techniques are appropriate, which is one reason the history matters as much as the examination and why we ask about your prescriptions before anyone touches you.
None of that is a reason to avoid being examined. It’s a reason for the first visit to be a proper examination instead of a treatment appointment with an examination attached.
Your first visit is longer than the ones that follow, because most of it is examination.
Your chiropractor will start by asking about your health history: how your problem started, if there was a specific event, what makes it better or worse, any activities you’ve stopped, and your general health and previous injuries.
Then comes the physical exam: we look at your posture and movement, measure your range of motion in each joint, test your strength and reflexes, check your sensation, perform orthopedic tests, and feel along your spine to see which areas reproduce your symptoms.
We only order imaging (like X-rays or MRI) if your exam suggests it’s needed. Digital X-ray is available in our clinics, and MRI is done at our University Boulevard South location. If you want to know exactly what happens at your first visit, just ask; we’ll walk you through it.
Treatment usually starts right after your exam, along with a plan and a clear explanation of what would lead us to change that plan.
Most people say adjustments are uncomfortable at most, not painful. Your provider will explain each technique before trying it and will change things up if you don’t tolerate it well. Some soreness after the first week is normal; think of it like the ache you get after trying a new exercise, not like the pain of the original injury.
Tell your clinician if anything is sharply worse afterward. That isn’t expected, and it changes the technique or the plan.
There is no requirement to have any particular technique. If you’d rather not be adjusted at all, say so, and the plan gets built from soft-tissue work, rehabilitation, and the supporting therapies instead.
You’ll have more visits at first, with fewer as you improve and take on more at-home exercises. This schedule is based on your progress, not on selling more appointments.
Early visits address joint restriction and the guarding around it, while tissue is still remodeling and movement patterns are still setting. As range and tolerance return, the emphasis shifts toward loading, strengthening, and the exercises you do at home between appointments.
Chiropractic care sits alongside the rest of the practice instead of in place of it. Physical medicine and rehab cover the strengthening and progression side, and spinal decompression is used for disc-related presentations at the affected level.
Supporting therapies are used where they fit the presentation: photobiomodulation laser, shockwave and PiezoWave, TECAR, HEIT, electrical muscle stimulation and therapeutic ultrasound. Which of these appear in your plan depends on the examination, not on a standard package. The plan gets reviewed against the measurements taken at your first visit. If those numbers aren’t moving by the point they should be, the right response is to change the approach or investigate further, and to say so instead of booking another block.
A reasonable question to ask any clinic, including this one, is what the exit looks like. You should get a straight answer about roughly how many visits are anticipated before the plan is reassessed, what would count as good progress, and what would count as enough progress to stop. Where that answer is vague at the outset, it tends to stay vague at week twelve.
A short explanation of the anatomy makes the rest of a treatment plan make sense.
The spine is a column of vertebrae separated by discs, with a pair of small joints at the back of every level called facet joints. Those facets guide and limit how each segment moves, and they carry a dense nerve supply, which is why an irritated one can hurt a great deal without anything being structurally damaged.
Around all of that sit two layers of muscle doing different jobs. The large superficial muscles move you, and a deeper layer of small stabilizers holds each segment steady while that movement happens. The deep layer is the one that goes quiet after an injury. It switches off quickly in response to pain; it doesn’t switch back on by itself once the pain settles, and its absence is a large part of why people who felt better at week four are back at week twelve having done nothing obviously wrong.
That’s the reasoning behind exercise being a required part of the plan instead of an optional extra. Hands-on treatment can restore movement to a restricted joint, and only loading restores the muscular control that keeps it there.
No, you can be seen directly, and our main Jacksonville clinics take walk-in patients on weekdays. After a car accident, there’s a further point worth knowing. 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. Those benefits are available only where the injured person receives initial services and care within 14 days of the accident.
So being seen by a chiropractic physician inside that window satisfies the statutory requirement. People are frequently told otherwise, which costs them the benefit. Our crash-specific page on chiropractic care after a crash covers what to expect in more detail.
Most of the work in a course of chiropractic care happens when you’re not in the building, which isn’t what people expect to be told.
You’ll usually leave the first visit with two or three specific things to do, and the number stays small deliberately. A program of eight exercises gets abandoned in a week, and three that actually get done beat eight that don’t.
Expect the exercises to change as you improve, because their job changes. Early ones restore movement and calm things down, middle ones rebuild the deep stabilizing control that switched off, and later ones load the area in ways that resemble whatever you actually need to do.
You’ll also get advice about position and habit that’s specific to your findings instead of generic. How you’re sleeping, how you’re getting in and out of a car, and how long you’re sitting before you move all matter more when a segment is irritated than they do the rest of the time.
Tell us honestly if you haven’t been doing them. A plan that isn’t being followed and a plan that isn’t working look identical on paper and need completely different responses, and only you can tell us which one we’re dealing with.
Being straight about the limits makes the rest of the page more useful, so here is the honest version.
Chiropractic care does not straighten a spine permanently, and it does not put anything back in place that had come out. Discs do not slip, and vertebrae do not move out of alignment and get pushed back. What treatment does is restore movement to segments that have stopped moving well, calm the tissue irritated around them, and rebuild the muscular control that keeps things there.
It also will not undo degenerative change. Disc height loss and arthritic change are permanent; they happen to everybody, and they are frequently present in people with no symptoms at all. What is treatable is the irritation, the stiffness, and the loss of control layered on top of them, and that is usually the entire difference between comfortable and not.
It is not a substitute for medical care where a medical problem is driving the symptoms. Part of the examination exists to identify that, and where we find it, we say so and refer on.
And it is not a permanent arrangement. Some people choose to come in periodically once they are better, and that is a reasonable personal decision. What it should never be is a plan you were told you needed indefinitely without a clear reason and a clear alternative.
Some symptoms need an emergency room rather than any clinic appointment.
Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room for loss of consciousness, a headache that keeps worsening, 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 injuries across northeast Florida go to UF Health Jacksonville, the region’s Level I trauma center.
If none of that applies and you’re stiff, restricted, aching, or simply not recovering the way you expected, an examination is the reasonable next step.
It depends on how you were hurt. After a car accident in Florida, your own auto insurance covers medical care as long as you’re seen within 14 days, and a chiropractic physician can provide that initial care. For a work injury, workers’ compensation usually applies and has its own rules about which doctor you see. For everything else, health insurance is the normal route.
We see patients with or without insurance. If you don’t have coverage, call 904-783-0008 and ask about our Affordable Plans.
Bring whatever cards you have to the first visit and our team will explain what applies to your situation before treatment starts.
Chiropractic care means attending several times over a period, so the practical question is which clinic you can reach repeatedly.
| Area | Address | Weekday hours |
|---|---|---|
| Southside | 9191 RG Skinner Pkwy, Suite 201 | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm |
| Westside, Murray Hill | 5222 Lenox Ave | 8:30 am to 6:30 pm |
| Mandarin | 3560 Cardinal Point Dr, Suite 101 | 8:30 am to 6:00 pm |
| Oceanway, Northside | 13453 North Main St N, Suite 501 | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm |
| Oakleaf, Argyle | 9680 Argyle Forest Blvd, Suite 20 | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm |
| University, MRI on-site | 4004 University Blvd S | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm |
We also have a clinic at Jacksonville Beach, on 16th Avenue North.
Pick the one on your way home from work instead of the one nearest where you were hurt. Over the course of care, that choice is what decides whether you finish it, and finishing it is what decides whether the problem stays fixed.
No appointment needed on weekdays, and after-hours on-call assistance with our doctors is available.
No, you can be seen directly, and our main Jacksonville clinics take walk-in patients on weekdays.
Most people find it uncomfortable at most. Your clinician explains what a technique involves beforehand and adapts it if you don’t tolerate it.
It’s appropriate for many crash injuries once fracture and other serious causes have been excluded, which is what the initial examination is for.
Not routinely. Imaging is ordered when the examination raises a specific question it can answer.
It depends on the findings and how you respond, and it’s tracked by repeating your baseline measurements rather than by a set number.
Yes, it runs alongside physical medicine, rehabilitation, and, where needed, interventional pain management within one plan.
Yes, we see patients with or without insurance. Call 904-783-0008 and ask about our Affordable Plans.
Our practice has treated injuries and nothing else since 2010, and chiropractic care has been part of how we do it from the start. Our chiropractic physicians work across the Jacksonville clinics alongside the medical and rehabilitation side of the practice. That structure is the point rather than a detail. Injury Care Centers combines chiropractic care, physical medicine, athletic training, and medical input inside a single treatment plan, with digital X-ray in the building and MRI at University Boulevard South, so a patient whose presentation changes doesn’t get handed to a different practice and asked to explain it again.
If you’re ready to take the next step toward better movement and less pain, visit one of our Jacksonville locations or give us a call. Walk-ins are welcome, and our team is here to support you on your journey to better health.
Come in at any of our Jacksonville clinics on a weekday, call 904-783-0008 with a question first, or find addresses and hours for all our Jacksonville locations.
Last reviewed: August 2026
Medically reviewed by Dr. Donald Lowery, Chiropractic Physician, Florida license no. CH7883.
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.
