Should I go to the emergency room before seeking treatment?
For life threatening injuries or severe symptoms, you should call 911 and immediately be transferred to the ER.
Urgent care can be a second choice if you can manage your symptom by yourself and you don’t have life threatening injury; however, if your injuries are minor or don’t want to wait several hours at ER, Chiropractic clinics are the best choice because we perform services including x-rays, physical examination, and various treatment.
Even if you have been in ER, you still need to see a chiropractor. ER doctors are mostly looking for life-threatening injuries such a broken bone or punctured lungs. As long as there is no immediate life-threat, they will send you out with only pain medication or prescription; however, you still need to get an evaluation and treatment for your soft tissue injury.