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Hurt in an accident? Get seen this week, not next month.

Two things run on a clock after a collision: your recovery and your record. Soft-tissue injuries often feel manageable on day one and peak 24 to 72 hours later, and a gap between the crash and your first evaluation is the hardest thing to explain afterward.

Get evaluated in the first week — even if you feel fine.

An emergency room visit after a crash rules out fracture and bleeding. It does not rule out the soft-tissue and joint injuries that surface days later. Being discharged from an ER is not the same as being cleared.

Come in within the first week if you were in a collision at any speed, and sooner if you have neck or back pain, headaches, numbness or tingling in an arm or leg, or pain that is getting worse rather than better.

Go to an emergency department instead — not to us — for any of these

  • Loss of consciousness, or confusion that is getting worse
  • A severe headache after striking your head
  • Chest pain, abdominal pain, or difficulty breathing
  • Weakness in an arm or leg, or loss of bladder or bowel control
  • Any injury you think may be a fracture

How care actually starts.

The same sequence whether you call for yourself or a law firm sends the referral. Only the paperwork differs.

  1. Step one — you reach us

    Someone answers, and you get a name.

    Call, submit the form, or have your attorney's office send the referral. You get a scheduled appointment and the name of the person handling it — not a callback promise.

  2. Within 24 hours

    A physician examines you. Not a technician.

    An MD or DO takes the history, asks how the injury happened, examines you, and writes down a working diagnosis and what caused it. That first note is the one an insurer will read most carefully, which is exactly why a physician writes it.

  3. Within 48 hours

    You get a plan, not a standing weekly appointment.

    Which specialties are involved, what imaging is needed, what procedures may come later, and roughly how long recovery should take.

  4. Ongoing — treatment

    Conservative care and clearance run at the same time.

    Chiropractic and pain management begin immediately while medical clearance happens alongside — so a health condition doesn't cost six weeks of waiting before treatment can advance.

  5. The end — release

    You're released when you've recovered as far as you're going to.

    Your physician documents where you ended up, what limitations remain, and what future care you're likely to need. Treatment length is a clinical decision here, not a scheduling default.

We treat by how the injury happened.

The mechanism decides the workup. Each of these routes to the right combination of specialties at the first visit, without you having to name a diagnosis first.

  • Car and rideshare collisions

    Neck and low back injury, disc herniation, nerve pain radiating into an arm or leg, concussion screening, shoulder and knee injury.

  • Truck and 18-wheeler

    Higher-energy collisions, injuries to more than one body region, and the documentation depth a commercial-policy case demands.

  • Motorcycle and pedestrian

    Care after a fracture, soft tissue injury, road rash and wound care, and injuries that change how you walk.

  • Slip, trip, and fall

    Spine, hip, and knee injury — including older adults whose imaging shows arthritis that an insurer will try to blame instead of the fall.

  • Fire, smoke, and chemical exposure

    Board-certified pulmonology for inhalation injury — refinery, plant, apartment fire, and chemical release cases.

  • Workplace and construction

    Crush and fall injuries, wound care, and the return-to-work documentation an employer or carrier will ask for.

What we treat after an accident.

Every page below is written and reviewed by the physicians who do the work — what the injury is, how it's diagnosed, and what treatment usually looks like. You don't need to know which one you have before you call.

Spine and disc

Head and neck

Joints and soft tissue

Pain syndromes and respiratory

Every condition we treat · every treatment we perform

What this costs you.

The most common reason someone stops treating after an accident is not pain. It's the fear of a bill.

Out of pocket
Nothing, when care proceeds on a Letter of Protection — a written agreement that our bill is paid out of your settlement rather than by you today.
Do I need an attorney?
No. You can be evaluated and treated without one. If you do have counsel, their office handles the paperwork with us directly.
If you have health insurance
We'll tell you when using it is in your interest rather than automatically routing you to a lien.
How many bills
One. Every specialty and every location bills under a single entity, because it is one group and one chart. Where a procedure happens at an outside surgery center or hospital, that facility bills separately and you are told before it happens — never after.

What to bring to your first visit.

None of it is required to be seen. All of it makes the first note better, and the first note is the one that matters most later.

Identification
Photo ID and your insurance card.
The accident
The accident report or claim number, if you have one.
Anything already done
Imaging, emergency room records, and discharge paperwork — including the visit where you were told nothing was broken.
Your timeline
When the collision happened, what hurt first, and what has changed since. This is the single most useful thing you can bring.
Other clinicians
The name and contact information of anyone else already treating you.

What goes in your record.

Accident care generates a record other people will read later. We keep it properly the first time.

Mechanism of injury, objective exam findings, a working diagnosis with its ICD-10 coding, the treatment plan and the reasoning behind it, and your progress at every visit.

We document what we find and what we do. Determinations about a claim belong to the parties handling it, and clinical decisions here are made on clinical grounds.

Questions we get before the first visit.

These answers are also what our structured data reports, so a search engine and a visitor read the same thing.

How soon can I be seen after an accident?
Same-day contact, and an appointment within 24 hours in most cases. If we can't meet that at the location closest to you, we'll say so and offer another site or a telemedicine start.
Do I have to pay anything today?
No. Treatment proceeds on a Letter of Protection, which means our bill is paid out of your settlement instead of by you now.
Do I need a lawyer before I can be treated?
No. You can be evaluated and treated without one. If you'd like a referral to counsel we can point you to firms we work with, and you are free to choose anyone you want — we don't get paid for that, in either direction.
I already have a lawyer. What do I do?
Have their office send the referral, or tell us who they are and we'll coordinate directly. Either way you don't have to carry paperwork between offices.
Will I have to go to a lot of different offices?
Usually not. Chiropractic, pain management, internal medicine, primary care, and pulmonary are all inside one group on one chart, so your records and your care follow you between specialties automatically.
I have diabetes or take blood thinners. Can I still get injections?
Yes, in most cases. Internal medicine and pulmonology are inside the group, so the medical clearance happens here rather than waiting on an outside doctor's office.
What if I speak Spanish or Farsi?
Staff speak both at intake and in the exam room, rather than routing you through a phone interpreter line. Patient education is written in English, Spanish, and Farsi too.
How long will treatment take?
It depends on the injury. Your physician sets the plan at the second visit and updates it as you progress — treatment length is a clinical judgment, not a fixed package.
How many bills will I get?
One. Every specialty and every location bills under a single entity, because it is one group and one chart. Where a procedure happens at an outside surgery center or hospital, that facility bills separately and you are told before it happens — never after.

Get seen.

Appointment within 24 hours in most cases, nothing out of pocket on a Letter of Protection, and clinics across Greater Houston. You don't need a lawyer to be seen.

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