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At Injury Care Centers, our team understands how disruptive and stressful a personal injury can be. Whether it’s from a car accident, a fall, a dog bite, or faulty equipment, these incidents can upend your daily life in an instant. Our team is dedicated to helping you get back on track, both physically and emotionally, by providing care focused on your unique situation.
We know that every injury is personal, so our clinicians take the time to listen and understand exactly what you’re dealing with. We work together to create a care plan tailored to your needs, never a one-size-fits-all approach. With years of experience treating all types of injuries, our team supports you through every step of your recovery.
If you’ve been hurt in an accident or by someone else’s actions, don’t wait to get help. Our Orange Park clinic on Wells Road welcomes walk-in patients on weekdays, and no referral is needed. Reach out to our team today; we’re here to answer your questions, provide the care, and help you take the next step toward recovery.
A personal injury doctor examines and treats injuries arising from an incident somebody else may be responsible for. The examination, the diagnosis, the imaging decisions, and the treatment plan do not change because a claim exists, and they should not.
What does change is who reads the notes. An adjuster, a reviewing physician, or eventually a court may look at records written months earlier, so findings get written down more specifically than they might otherwise be. Specific, not different.
There is a boundary useful to know at the top, because people arrive unsure about it. We do not value claims, advise on settlement, recommend lawyers, or take a position on who was at fault. Our doctors treat you and write down what they find. Everything downstream of that belongs to you and whoever is advising you.
That separation is the point and not a limitation. A doctor whose notes are shaped by what would help a claim is a doctor whose notes are worth less to you and to everybody who reads them.
Personal injury includes any injury caused by another person or business, not just car accidents. Common examples are vehicle collisions, slips and falls on someone else’s property, injuries from unsafe premises, dog bites, and accidents caused by faulty equipment or products.
We often see wrist fractures, rotator cuff tears, elbow and forearm injuries, hip and pelvis injuries, knee injuries (including meniscus and ligament tears), low back strains, disc injuries, and concussions from falls. Even a fall from standing height onto a hard surface can cause these injuries.
The full range of injuries and ongoing pain across the practice is on our injury clinic page.
Some symptoms need attention, even if the incident didn’t seem serious at first.
Pain that spreads from the original injury site often means a nerve is involved. Numbness, tingling, or weakness in your hand, arm, foot, or leg, or a grip that’s become less reliable, are also signs to get checked out.
If swelling shows up hours later, a joint feels unstable or locks, you can’t put weight on a limb, or your range of motion is noticeably reduced, it’s important to have these issues examined rather than waiting for them to resolve on their own.
A headache after an injury, especially with a head impact, shouldn’t be ignored. Trouble sleeping or difficulty concentrating are also important to mention. Many people feel okay at first, only to find their symptoms get worse weeks later. Inflammation and muscle guarding often build up over time, so your symptoms may change after the event.
Get examined because you are hurt, not because of a claim. That said, an injury nobody documented is difficult to describe accurately weeks later, and the first week is the only time anyone can record what you could and could not do at the start. Delay makes the injury harder to treat as well as harder to describe.
The main reason to see a doctor early is for your health. Muscles can start to compensate for injuries, and a simple problem can become more complex over a few weeks. Another reason is that it’s easy to forget details; most people can’t accurately recall how well they moved in the first week, and no exam can recreate that information later.
Neither of those is advice about a claim. They are both reasons to be seen.
Plan to spend about an hour at your first appointment, with most of that time focused on a thorough exam.
We start by talking through exactly what happened—what you were doing, how you were injured, what direction the force came from, and how you landed or what hit you. We’ll also ask how you felt right after the injury and the next morning. These details help us focus your exam and get to the root of the problem.
Next comes the hands-on part: measuring your range of motion in every direction, testing your muscle strength, checking reflexes and sensation, and looking at joint stability. We may apply gentle pressure to see if we can recreate your pain. Finding exactly what brings on your symptoms is often more useful than just describing them.
We only order imaging, like X-rays or MRI, if your exam suggests it’s needed. Digital X-rays are available, and MRI in our clinics can be scheduled at our University Boulevard South location in Jacksonville.
You can always read more about these options at our clinic or on our website to find out what happens at your first visit.
By the end of your visit, you’ll leave with a clear diagnosis, a treatment plan, and an understanding of what signs or changes to watch for going forward.
You don’t need to have everything on this list to be seen; don’t wait to get care just to collect paperwork.
Bring a photo ID and whatever insurance information you have. After a crash, that means your auto policy details, since personal injury protection sits on the auto policy and not the health one. For a fall or a premises injury, bring your health insurance card.
If you’ve already seen another provider, bring any notes or imaging you receive; they help us avoid repeating tests. It also helps to write down what happened before you come in, rather than trying to remember details in the exam room. Include what you were doing, what the surface or equipment was like, what gave way, who else was there, and how you felt immediately after versus the next morning.
Photos can be surprisingly helpful. If you have pictures of the scene, like a stairwell, floor, equipment, or the dog, bring them in. Conditions often change quickly after an injury, so photos from the day can be valuable.
Also, make a note of anything you’ve stopped doing since the injury, not just how much it hurts, but the daily activities you avoid or have to ask for help with. Those details tell us a lot about how the injury is affecting your life and help guide your care.
Treatment starts at the first visit and is built around restoring movement and load tolerance.
Chiropractic care addresses joint restriction and the guarding that develops around a painful area. Physical medicine and rehab carry the strengthening and progression, which is where the lasting part of the improvement comes from. Spinal decompression is used where a disc is involved at a specific level.
Where pain is not settling with movement-based care, we have laser therapy, shockwave, PiezoWave, TECAR, HEIT, electrical muscle stimulation, therapeutic ultrasound, and PRP, with injections and prescriptions available inside the practice.
The plan gets reviewed as you go. If the measurements from your first visit are not moving when they should be, we change the approach or investigate further.
Treating past the point of benefit is bad medicine, and on a page like this it needs saying directly. Care continues because the examination supports it, and it stops when it does not. A record showing treatment ending because somebody recovered is a good record.
A gap in treatment is one of the most common things people get asked about later, and most gaps have entirely ordinary explanations.
The clinical reason gaps matter is straightforward. Movement-based treatment depends on frequency early on, while tissue is remodeling and guarding patterns are still setting, so a month away in week three is not the same as a month away in month five. The other reason is that a record cannot explain itself. An unexplained silence between two appointments invites a reading that has nothing to do with why you were actually away, and the only reliable fix is having said so at the time.
So tell us. If you know you are going to miss two weeks for childcare, a work trip, or an unrelated illness, say so beforehand, and we will put the reason in the file and adjust the plan around it. If you have already missed a stretch, tell us what happened when you come back.
None of that is a reason to keep attending appointments you do not need.
Yes, whenever you ask, through the normal release process. You sign a release, we send the records, and that is the whole arrangement. We have no referral relationship with any law firm and no financial arrangement in either direction.
If you are working with a lawyer, tell us at the first visit so we know where records may need to go. If you are not, that changes nothing about your treatment.
People sometimes ask whether they should see a doctor their attorney suggested, or whether seeing one we suggested would look better. We do not answer either question, because it is not ours to answer. Come here because the clinic is convenient and the care is right for your injury.
This is the detail that surprises people who live in Orange Park, and competitor pages get it wrong routinely.
Clay County’s seat is Green Cove Springs, not Orange Park. The Clay County Courthouse is at 825 North Orange Avenue in Green Cove Springs, roughly twenty miles south along US 17, and that is where civil matters for the county are handled. Orange Park is the county’s largest commercial center, and it is not the county seat.
Clay County sits in the Fourth Judicial Circuit, which also covers Duval and Nassau. So a Clay County resident and a Jacksonville resident are in the same circuit even though they are in different counties, which is a true and rarely stated local fact. None of that changes your medical care, and it is useful to know because it affects where paperwork goes and where you may eventually need to be. If a lawyer is handling your claim, they will deal with all of it.
What it does mean practically is that being treated in Orange Park while a matter proceeds in Green Cove Springs is entirely normal. Your records travel; you do not have to.
Yes, we see patients with or without insurance. After a motor vehicle crash in Florida, your own auto policy covers medical care as long as you are seen within 14 days. For other injuries, health insurance is the usual route. If you have neither, call 904-783-0008 and ask about our Affordable Plans.
Under Florida’s no-fault law, auto insurance medical benefits are available only where you receive initial services and care within 14 days of the accident. That one catches people out, because crash symptoms typically take a day or two to appear, and then a week disappears dealing with the car.
For a fall or a premises injury, there is no equivalent 14-day rule, and the sooner you are examined, the better.
Bring whatever cards and paperwork you have to the first visit. If you do not have all of it, come anyway.
Nobody can tell you at a first visit, and a clinic that offers a number that early should be asked where the number came from.
What is reasonably well understood is the shape. Muscle injuries generally settle fastest because muscle has the best blood supply. Tendon takes longer, ligament longer still, and disc and nerve problems run the least predictable course of all.
What we track is your own trajectory against the measurements taken at your first visit. At week four, the question is whether those numbers are moving, not whether a particular morning felt better than the one before.
Progress is rarely a straight line, and expecting one causes real problems. People told to expect steady improvement read a bad Wednesday as a setback and stop their exercises. And lose more ground to the interruption than the flare itself would have cost. If the numbers are not moving when they should be, that is information. We change the plan, investigate further, or say plainly that a different kind of care is needed.
Injuries do not always behave the way the first examination suggests, and a plan built in week one sometimes needs rebuilding in week three.
New symptoms matter more than worse ones. Pain that has started traveling, numbness that was not there before, or weakness in a grip or a foot are all reasons to be re-examined instead of continuing the existing plan.
A plateau is its own signal. Progress that stops for two or three weeks means the plan has done what it can, and the honest response is to reassess or investigate further.
Tell us about anything that happened in between, too. A second minor incident, a heavy weekend, a fall that seemed like nothing. Those explain a great deal, and they are the details people leave out because they feel unrelated.
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.
A deep bite wound, especially to the hand, also needs urgent attention because of infection risk.
Clay County’s trauma center is HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, a Level II facility, so serious injuries here are treated in the county.
| 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.
Treatment happens where you can get to repeatedly. That is the practical point. A course of care runs over weeks, and the clinic you will actually finish at is the one on your commute rather than the one nearest the incident or nearest your lawyer’s office.
No appointment needed on weekdays, and after-hours on-call assistance with our doctors is available.
No, medical care and legal advice are separate. Being examined does not require a claim to exist or a lawyer to be involved.
No, we treat the injury and record the findings. Anything about the value of a claim is a question for a lawyer.
One who examines injuries regularly. A fall usually damages several structures in sequence, and finding the quieter ones takes an exam built for it.
Yes, treatment does not wait for a claim, and our team explains what applies to your situation before it starts.
Yes, whenever you ask, through the normal release process. We have no referral or financial arrangement with any firm.
Yes, bring any records or imaging you have, and we will continue from there instead of starting over.
No, Clay County’s seat is Green Cove Springs, and the county courthouse is there. Your treatment stays local either way.
At Injury Care Centers, our team has focused exclusively on treating injuries since 2010. This dedication means we take the time to thoroughly understand your injury and track your progress with detailed, meaningful notes, not just a quick diagnosis or pain score.
Our collaborative approach brings together chiropractic physicians, physical medicine specialists, athletic trainers, and a medical doctor to build a plan that fits your needs. With digital X-ray on-site and MRI available at our University Boulevard South location, you get access to comprehensive care right here in Orange Park.
The best step you can take is to come in for a thorough exam and have your findings recorded by our team. Tracking your range of motion, strength, and reflexes from the beginning helps us measure your progress and adjust your plan as needed. These details are essential to your recovery and can’t be recreated later.
If you’ve been injured and need care, visit our Wells Road clinic in Orange Park, call us at 904-783-0008, or check our website for other locations and hours. Our team is ready to help you move forward with the support you deserve.
Last reviewed: August 2026
Medically reviewed by Dr. Adam Francis, Chiropractic Physician, Florida license no. CH11371.
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.
