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At our Yulee clinic, our team is dedicated exclusively to treating injuries, nothing else. Whether you’re dealing with sprains, strains, whiplash, torn ligaments, back or neck pain, knee and shoulder injuries, fractures, or concussions, we’re here to help you recover.
Every person who comes through our doors is met by a staff that understands the importance of a thorough physical exam and a thoughtful approach to care. We’ve designed our appointments to provide the time and attention needed, with onsite imaging available for quick, accurate diagnosis.
Since 2010, our experienced team at Injury Care Centers has proudly served communities across northeast Florida. Our Yulee location on Homegrown Way welcomes walk-in patients every weekday, ensuring you have access to immediate, specialized care when you need it most. Each member of our staff brings a commitment to compassion, expertise, and support to every patient interaction.
If you or a loved one has been injured, we invite you to visit our Yulee clinic and experience the caring expertise our team offers. Let us help you take the next step toward recovery; walk in or contact us today to get started.
An injury clinic specializes in one thing: treating injuries. Every patient who walks in has an injury, so everything, from our questions to our equipment, is designed for that.
Here’s how we’re different: time and focus. General urgent cares handle everything from fevers to sprains in the same afternoon, so appointments are short and general. We focus exclusively on injuries, so your exam takes longer and goes deeper.
That means we measure your progress with real numbers, not just estimates: how far your joint moves, how strong your muscle is, and whether sensation is normal along a specific nerve. These numbers go in your chart at your first visit so we can track your progress over time.
It also means we keep treating you. Most injuries need weeks of care, not one appointment, and having that happen in the same building keeps your whole record in one place.
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.
We’ll always be honest if you’re in the wrong place. If you show up with a chest infection, we’ll tell you right away, because it’s more helpful than seeing you anyway. We’d rather spend ten minutes pointing you to the right clinic than an hour treating something outside our expertise.
Treating pain and injuries is all we do. Here’s a full list of conditions we treat. You’ll find more details on other pages throughout our site.
Not every patient arrives from an accident. Plenty come in with pain that built up gradually over months, or an old injury that never quite came right and has started limiting things again. Those are treatable, and they are a large part of what we see.
Do not see your problem? Call 904-783-0008 and ask, and our team will tell you whether we are the right clinic before you make the trip.
No to both. Our Yulee clinic takes walk-in patients during weekday hours, and you do not need a referral from another doctor. Weekend visits work best by phone: call 904-783-0008, and we will get you a same-day appointment when we can.
Come as you are. Bring a photo ID and any insurance information you have, plus any paperwork or imaging from another provider if you have it. If you don’t have everything, come in anyway; we’d rather see you now and handle paperwork later.
One thing that really helps: write down what you’ve noticed since the injury before you arrive. It’s easy to forget details during your appointment, but notes made at home help us catch what you might miss later.
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 is at our University Boulevard South location in Jacksonville, so there is no MRI in Yulee and we book you there when your exam calls for one.
X-rays show broken bones and spinal alignment, but they can’t reveal muscle, ligament, disc, or nerve issues, which is why a clear X-ray doesn’t always mean everything is fine. MRI scans reveal soft tissue injuries. We order them if your exam points to a disc or nerve problem, or if you’re not healing as expected.
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.
This is the local detail that catches people out in Nassau County, and it works differently here from most places.
Yulee is unincorporated. There is no city government and no city police department, so the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office responds to crashes and incidents across Yulee, Wildlight, and most of the county. Its headquarters are here in Yulee, which is unusual for a community that is not the county seat.
That actually makes things simpler than in a market split between city and county agencies. If an officer attended your crash in Yulee, the report is a Sheriff’s Office report, and there is one place to ask.
Where it changes is at the edges. Fernandina Beach and Callahan have their own municipal arrangements, so a crash on Amelia Island or in a town center may involve a different agency than one on SR 200 a few miles west. If you are not sure who responded, the paperwork handed to you at the scene names the agency.
Bring it to your first visit. Our team can usually figure out where to go from your paperwork; it’s a five-minute chat that could save you two weeks of calling the wrong department.
Most injuries don’t require anything complicated in the first day or two, and a few simple measures can mean the difference between a short recovery and a long one.
Keep moving within your comfort level. Resting completely beyond the first day or two can stiffen joints and weaken the muscles around them, which often becomes more limiting than the original injury by the second week.
Ice can help in the first day or two if it feels good, but after that, most people prefer heat. At that stage, neither ice nor heat significantly affects the tissue; just use whichever helps you move, as movement is what matters most.
Two things to skip: heavy lifting and testing the injury by pushing it as far as it will go to see if it still hurts. It likely will, and you’ll just delay your recovery.
It depends on what is injured. Muscle usually recovers fastest because it has the best blood supply. Tendon takes longer, ligament longer still, and disc and nerve problems are usually the most unpredictable. Your doctor will estimate your recovery time after the first exam and monitor your progress over time.
Treatment usually follows a pattern. 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 away before the tissue has finished healing. That gap is when people are at risk of reinjury, and that’s why we prefer you check in even if you’re feeling better, rather than assuming you’re fully healed.
Northeast Florida does not really have an off-season, so recreational injuries arrive all year instead of in a rush each autumn.
Nassau County’s rapid growth, especially around Wildlight and the SR 200 corridor, has brought many young families, and with them, an increase in youth sports and the associated injuries.
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 are just as common as sudden injuries, often appearing after changes 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 deciding to just 'shake it off' isn’t a proper assessment. If a player was dazed, felt sick, or has been foggy since, they should be evaluated before returning to play.
Our approach to sports and recreational injuries is the same as for anything else: identify the injury, assess it, treat it, and gradually increase activity, rather than returning to full activity all at once.
Falls are the most common reason people come to an injury clinic outside of car accidents, and they are the injuries most often ignored or underestimated.
The problem is that a fall impacts several parts of the body at once. You put a hand out, so the wrist, elbow, and shoulder all absorb force in sequence. You twist as you go down, so the hip and lower back take a rotational impact that often goes unnoticed. Then you land, and whatever hits first absorbs the rest.
So a fall that produces one obvious sore spot has usually caused three or four smaller issues as well. These show up about a week later once the main injury settles, which is why we examine areas you haven’t complained about.
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.
Those are the presentations where an ambulance and an emergency department are the right answer, and nothing on this page should slow that decision down.
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 the cause of your injury. 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. Many people miss that deadline because crash symptoms can take a day or two to appear, and it’s easy to lose track of time while handling car repairs and insurance.
We see patients with or without insurance. If you do not have coverage, call 904-783-0008 and ask about our Affordable Plans. Bring any insurance cards you have to your first visit, and our team will explain your coverage options.
| Clinic | Address | Weekday hours |
|---|---|---|
| Yulee | 57 Homegrown Way, Unit 601 | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm |
We have one clinic in Yulee, on Homegrown Way, serving Yulee along with Wildlight, Callahan, Hilliard, Amelia Island, and the surrounding Nassau 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 commute south into 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 Yulee 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.
Yulee is unincorporated, so the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office usually responds. The paperwork from the scene names the agency.
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. Chris Hopkins is the chiropractic physician covering our Yulee clinic.
Come to Homegrown Way 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.
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.
