When acci­dents hap­pen lives are changed for­ever. In the blink of an eye, an auto­mo­bile acci­dent, a fall or a work injury can cost a per­son their jobs, their health and their future. The call they make after an acci­dent can make all the dif­fer­ence. The Florida Injury Cen­ters can help acci­dent vic­tims obtain all the care they need to get them back on the road to recovery.

Treat­ment Approach

Florida Injury Cen­ters employ an inte­grated approach to treat­ment merg­ing the con­ser­v­a­tive ther­a­peu­tic modal­i­ties cus­tom­ary within the field of chi­ro­prac­tic with the more inva­sive pro­ce­dures and tech­niques uti­lized by mem­bers of the med­ical profession.

Depend­ing upon the injuries present, after exam­i­na­tion, x-ray, imag­ing stud­ies and diag­no­sis, patients may receive the phys­io­ther­a­peu­tic modal­i­ties of elec­tric mus­cle stim­u­la­tion, heat, ice, trac­tion, ultra­sound and spinal adjust­ments from a licensed chi­ro­prac­tor as well as a ther­a­peu­tic mas­sage from a licensed mas­sage therapist.

Patients also may be exam­ined and treated by a board cer­ti­fied med­ical doc­tor who can pre­scribe med­ica­tion, admin­is­ter joint, trig­ger point and spinal injec­tions, and per­form diag­nos­tic test­ing includ­ing electromyography/nerve con­duc­tion stud­ies as well as ultra­sonic exam­i­na­tion of joins and extremities.

Uti­liz­ing both chi­ro­prac­tic and med­ical strate­gies, Florida Injury Cen­ters are able to treat injuries to the neck, back, head, shoul­ders, knees and extrem­i­ties and are able to offer a broad array of ther­apy options to its patients.

Florida Injury Cen­ters, located in Jack­sonville, Fort Pierce, West Palm Beach, Naples, Fort Myers and Tampa, are mod­ern Chi­ro­prac­tic Med­ical Facil­i­ties that pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive diag­nos­tic and treat­ment ser­vices to vic­tims of auto­mo­bile, work-related and slip and fall accidents.

Each office is staffed by a licensed chi­ro­prac­tor, a board cer­ti­fied physi­a­trist (med­ical doc­tor spe­cial­ized in phys­i­cal med­i­cine and reha­bil­i­ta­tion), a licensed mas­sage ther­a­pist and sev­eral reg­is­tered chi­ro­prac­tic assistants.

Each office con­tains bilin­gual (Spanish/English) per­son­nel and offers com­ple­men­tary trans­porta­tion for patients to and from the office. All Florida Injury Cen­ter offices are super­vised and directed by a board cer­ti­fied med­ical doc­tor and are licensed by the Agency for Health Care Admin­is­tra­tion (AHCA). AHCA licen­sure in Florida requires among other things, detailed back­ground checks of all pro­fes­sional and non-professional staff mem­bers. AHCA licen­sure also man­dates that exten­sive qual­ity con­trol poli­cies and pro­ce­dures be imple­mented in each of the Florida Injury Cen­ter offices.

Out­side Referrals

Fre­quently, patients exhibit symp­to­mol­ogy that war­rant refer­ral for imag­ing stud­ies such as CT or MRI scans or con­sul­ta­tions from spe­cial­ists such as neuro or ortho­pe­dic surgeons.

Florida Injury Cen­ters main­tain pro­fes­sional rela­tion­ships with local imag­ing cen­ters and med­ical spe­cial­ists assur­ing prompt appoint­ments for all patients

Final Nar­ra­tive Reports

At the com­ple­tion of treat­ment, Florida Injury Cen­ter physi­cians promptly dic­tate final nar­ra­tive reports, describ­ing all injuries that were caused by the accident.

The nar­ra­tive pro­vides a ratio­nal for treat­ment pro­vided to the patient as well as the med­ical neces­sity of all diag­nos­tic test­ing and spe­cial­ist consultations.

The nar­ra­tive report will be a con­cise inte­gra­tion of all treat­ment pro­vided to the patient cul­mi­nat­ing in an impair­ment rat­ing fol­low­ing the 6th edi­tion of the AMA Impair­ment Guides.

Resid­ual lim­i­ta­tions and restric­tions placed on the patients daily per­sonal and work related activ­i­ties because of injuries sus­tained in the acci­dent and an esti­mate of needed future med­ical care also will be dis­cussed in the nar­ra­tive report.

Obtain­ing Records

Florida Injury Cen­ters main­tain a HIPPA com­pli­ant com­put­er­ized, elec­tronic, paper­less record keep­ing sys­tem. If desired, com­plete med­ical files can read­ily be e-mailed to legal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of patients within a few days of discharge.