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An injury clinic treats injuries and nothing else: sprains and strains, whiplash, torn ligaments, back and neck pain, knee and shoulder injuries, fractures and concussions. Because everybody walking in has hurt something, the appointment is built for a proper physical exam instead of a ten-minute slot, and imaging is usually on-site. Most take walk-in patients without a referral.
At Injury Care Centers, our team is dedicated to helping people in Orange Park recover from injuries of all kinds. From sprains, strains, and torn ligaments to back and neck pain, fractures, and concussions, we focus solely on treating injuries. Every patient who walks through our doors knows they’ll receive a thorough, hands-on evaluation and care plan focused on their specific needs.
Our clinicians work as a team, blending medical, chiropractic, and rehabilitation knowledge to create a supportive environment that prioritizes your recovery. We understand that every injury is unique, so we take the time necessary for a complete exam and offer many services right here in our Orange Park clinic, often without the need for a referral or appointment.
We’re here for you whenever you need us. Our Wells Road clinic welcomes walk-in patients on weekdays, and our team is always ready to answer questions or get you started with a personalized treatment plan. If you’re dealing with pain or injury, visit us today or give us a call; let our team help you get back on the path to recovery.
An injury clinic is built around one kind of problem. Everybody through the door has hurt something, so the questions, the exam, and the equipment are all set up for that.
What sets us apart is the time and attention we give each patient. While a general urgent care handles everything from fevers to injuries in a short visit, our team focuses exclusively on injuries. This allows us to spend more time with you and do a more thorough exam.
We measure things precisely rather than just estimating, like how far a joint moves, how strong your muscles are, and whether sensation is normal along a nerve. These details are charted on your first visit, so we can track your progress over time and make sure you’re improving.
We stay with you through your recovery. Most injuries need weeks of ongoing care, not just one appointment, and having everything under one roof keeps your records organized and your treatment consistent.
Go to the emergency room for anything life-threatening or severe: head injuries with confusion or vomiting, heavy bleeding, a visibly deformed limb, chest pain, or trouble breathing. Use an urgent care for illness and minor problems. Use an injury clinic when something is hurt, and you need it properly examined and treated over time. The three overlap in the middle, and that is where people get stuck.
A sprained ankle, a back that seized after lifting, a shoulder aching since a fall, or a neck that will not turn two days after a crash. All three places will see you, and only one is set up to work out exactly which structure is damaged and then treat it over the following weeks.
If you come in with a problem we can’t address, we’ll let you know right away. That kind of honesty saves everyone time and helps you get the right care as soon as possible. We’d much rather guide you to the appropriate resources than provide treatment for something beyond our capabilities.
Treating pain and injuries is our specialty. Here’s a complete list of what we treat across our practice, with links from other pages on this site for easy reference.
Not every patient comes in because of a recent accident. Many people visit us with pain that developed gradually over time, or from an old injury that never fully healed and is now interfering with daily life. These issues are common, very treatable, and we help with them every day.
Don’t see your concern listed? Call us at 904-783-0008, and our team will let you know if we’re the right clinic for your needs before you come in.
No appointment or referral is needed. Our Orange Park clinic welcomes walk-ins on weekdays. For weekend visits, give us a call at 904-783-0008; we’ll do our best to get you a same-day appointment.
Just come as you are. Please bring a photo ID and any insurance information you have, as well as any paperwork or imaging from another provider if available. But if you don’t have everything with you, don’t worry; we’d rather see you today and sort out the paperwork later.
One helpful tip: jot down any symptoms or changes you’ve noticed since your injury before you arrive. It’s easy to forget details during your visit, and notes from home can help us give you the best care possible.
Plan on about an hour. Most of it is the exam.
Your doctor starts with how it happened. What you were doing, what direction the force came from, what gave way, whether you could keep going afterward, and what has changed since. That history narrows the possibilities before anyone touches you.
Then the physical exam: range of motion measured in each direction, strength tested muscle by muscle, reflexes, sensation. And pressure applied to the structures that might reproduce your pain. Reproducing your symptom on a specific test is worth far more than a description of it. Measured is the operative word, because “reduced range of motion” is an impression and “45 degrees of rotation to the right” is a finding. And only one of those can be compared against anything a month later.
If the exam raises a question a scan can answer, we order it that day. Otherwise, we do not. Treatment starts on the same visit, and you leave knowing your diagnosis, your plan, and what would change it. What happens at your first visit is set out separately if you would rather know in advance.
We have digital X-ray in our clinics, along with nerve conduction studies, EEG, and brain injury evaluation. MRI at our University Boulevard South location in Jacksonville. So there is no MRI in Orange Park, and we book you there when your exam calls for one.
X-rays show broken bones and how the spine lines up. What they cannot show is muscle, ligament, disc, or nerve, which is why a clear X-ray does not mean nothing is wrong. MRI shows soft tissue, and we order it when the exam points to a disc or a nerve, or when you are not improving the way we would expect.
You can read more about the X-ray and MRI in our clinics before you come in.
Your plan depends on what the exam finds. These are the tools we work with, and the other pages on this site link here for the full list.
We review the plan as you go. If your measurements are not moving when they should be, we change the approach or look further instead of booking another block of the same thing.
Most injuries need nothing clever in the first day or two, and a few simple things make the difference between a short episode and a long one.
Keep moving within what is comfortable. Complete rest past the first day or two stiffens joints and weakens the muscles around them. And that stiffness is often more limiting by week two than the original damage.
Ice helps in the first day or two if it feels good, and after that most people prefer heat. Neither is doing much to the tissue by then, so use whichever makes you willing to move.
Two things to skip: heavy lifting, and testing the injury by pushing it as far as it will go to see whether it still hurts. It will, and you will set yourself back a day.
It depends on what is damaged. Muscle generally recovers fastest because it has the best blood supply. Tendon takes longer, ligament longer still, and disc and nerve problems run the least predictable course of all. Your doctor gives you an estimate after the first exam and rechecks your measurements as you go.
Treatment usually follows a shape. Early visits are shorter and more frequent, aimed at settling things down and getting movement back. As you improve, visits spread out, and you take on more of the work at home.
Two things slow recovery more than anything else. Resting too much, which weakens the muscles supporting the injured area. And stopping the home exercises the moment the pain eases, which is the single most common reason somebody is back six months later.
Pain usually goes before the tissue has finished healing. That gap is where people reinjure themselves, and it is why we would rather you come back on a good week than assume you are done.
Northeast Florida does not really have an off-season, so recreational injuries arrive all year instead of in a rush each autumn.
We see the full range: ankle sprains and ligament injuries, ACL and meniscus tears, rotator cuff problems, tennis and golfer’s elbow, hamstring and calf strains, shin splints and plantar fasciitis. Overuse injuries turn up just as often as sudden ones, usually after a change in training volume, surface or footwear.
Concussion deserves its own mention. A head impact during a game needs the same evaluation as one in a car, and shaking it off is a decision, not an assessment. If a player was dazed, felt sick, or has been foggy since, that needs looking at before they go back on.
Our approach to sports and recreational injuries is the same as for anything else. Find out what is damaged, measure it, treat it, and rebuild the load gradually instead of all at once.
Falls are the most common reason people visit an injury clinic outside of car accidents—and they’re also the type of injury people are most likely to brush off or ignore.
The challenge with falls is that they impact several parts of your body at once. You might reach out with your hand, putting stress on your wrist, elbow, and shoulder. As you twist or turn during the fall, your hip and lower back can take on extra strain, often without you realizing it. Finally, wherever you land absorbs the remaining force.
That’s why a fall that leaves one obvious sore spot often causes three or four smaller injuries that aren’t felt right away. These less noticeable issues often appear a week later, after the main pain starts to fade. That’s why we check areas you may not think to mention during your exam.
We’re especially careful with older adults. Lower bone density, arthritis, and certain medications can all affect how a fall impacts the body and what treatments are best. Blood thinners are particularly important; they influence both bruising and which hands-on treatments are safe. That’s why we ask about your medications before starting any exam or treatment.
Furthermore, children require a different approach and level of monitoring. They often struggle to describe their symptoms and look to adults for cues on how to react. Pay attention to how your child moves rather than waiting for them to say something hurts. If a child stops using an arm normally, wants to be carried more, or is sleeping differently after a fall, these could be signs that something is wrong.
It depends where exactly you were. The Town of Orange Park is a small incorporated municipality, and a lot of what people call Orange Park is unincorporated Clay County with a 32073 or 32065 address. Inside town limits, the Orange Park Police Department responds. Outside them, it is the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, and each holds its own reports.
That line is invisible from the road, and it catches people out. Two crashes a mile apart can mean two different agencies and two different request processes, and somebody who asks the wrong one is told there is no report. If you are not sure who responded, the paperwork handed to you at the scene names the agency. Bring it to your first visit and our team can point you to the right place.
The same distinction matters for how you describe where you live. Orange Park and the surrounding Clay County communities include Fleming Island, Middleburg, and Oakleaf Plantation, and all of them are within reach of our Wells Road clinic.
Some injuries need an emergency room, not a clinic.
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, trouble breathing, an obviously deformed limb, or bleeding that will not stop.
Clay County has its own trauma center. Serious trauma in Clay County goes to HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, a Level II trauma center.
Everything short of that is what a walk-in injury clinic is for, and being unsure is a perfectly good reason to come in.
It depends on how you were hurt. After a car accident in Florida, your own auto insurance covers medical care as long as you are seen within 14 days. 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.
Under Florida’s no-fault law, auto insurance medical benefits are available only if you receive initial services and care within 14 days of the accident. That deadline catches people out, because most crash symptoms take a day or two to appear, and then a week disappears dealing with the car.
We see patients with or without insurance. If you do not 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.
| Clinic | Address | Weekday hours |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Park, Wells Road | 1731 Wells Road, Suite 140 | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm |
We have one clinic in Orange Park, on Wells Road, serving 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. After-hours on-call assistance with our doctors is available. If you work in Jacksonville, our clinics there run on the same system and the same treatment plan. So being seen near work and treated near home is straightforward.
No, our Orange Park clinic takes walk-in patients on weekdays. Call 904-783-0008 for a same-day appointment on weekends.
No, urgent care treats illness and injury across a wide range. We treat injuries only, which is why the exam is longer and more specific.
Yes, work injuries, sports injuries, falls, lifting injuries, and everyday joint and muscle pain are all treated here.
Yes, we see patients with or without insurance. Call 904-783-0008 and ask about our Affordable Plans.
Not at our clinic. MRI is at our University Boulevard South location in Jacksonville, and we book you there when your exam calls for one.
Only if the exam raises a question an X-ray can answer. We do not order imaging automatically.
Yes, bring them in after any fall or collision, since children describe symptoms poorly and often say they feel fine.
We opened in 2010 because injuries kept getting missed. Soft-tissue damage does not show on an X-ray and does not look dramatic on day one, so it gets overlooked in a clinic handling everything else that afternoon.
So we built clinics where treating pain and injuries is all we do. Injury Care Centers brings chiropractic physicians, a medical doctor, a nurse practitioner, and athletic trainers into one plan, with digital X-ray in the building. Dr. Adam Francis is the chiropractic physician covering our Orange Park clinic.
Come to Wells Road on any weekday without an appointment, 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 John Linder, ARNP, Florida license no. APRN11028112
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.
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