The usual first stop after a collision is a clinic built around musculoskeletal injury — Chiropractic care and Physical Therapy under one chart — because most crash injuries are soft-tissue strain, whiplash, or joint injury that respond to conservative care first. A Pain Management physician is brought in from the same clinic if imaging, medication review, or an injection is actually needed.
A first visit after a crash starts with an examination: range of motion, where the pain is, and whether anything points toward a more serious injury. Chiropractic care and Physical Therapy do most of the ongoing work from there, restoring motion and settling the muscles that have been guarding the injury since the crash. Acupuncture is available where it helps with pain and muscle tone.
If the case isn't settling the way it should, or the exam raises something that needs a closer look, the Pain Management physicians review it and decide on next steps, including imaging or an injection. Interventional procedures, where they are needed, are performed in office at Mesa and Westgate.
Call 911 or go to an emergency department if any of these are present, rather than waiting for a clinic appointment:
Those are signs that need emergency evaluation now, not a scheduled visit.
No referral is needed, appointments are usually available within the same week, and there is no upfront cost: care is billed to auto insurance med-pay (the medical-payments part of an auto policy), health insurance, or a lien (the clinic waits to be paid from your settlement) while a claim is open. The full breakdown of how billing works is on the who pays for treatment page.
No. You can book directly, and appointments are usually available within the same week.
Yes, for most soft-tissue and whiplash-type injuries. It's the same clinic that has Physical Therapy, Acupuncture and Pain Management if more is needed.
The Pain Management physicians order and review imaging when the exam points to it.
The physicians review the case and decide on next steps, which can include an injection performed in office at Mesa or Westgate.
You can, but a clinic with Chiropractic, Physical Therapy and Pain Management on one chart means the case doesn't need a separate referral to move between them.
No referral is needed, appointments are usually available within the same week, and there is no upfront cost.
