Already Treating for a Work Injury in Rhode Island? You Can Still See a Chiropractor

If you were hurt at work and your employer sent you to an urgent care clinic, an occupational health center, or a primary care physician, that may have been your first stop — but it doesn’t have to be your only option.

In Rhode Island, injured workers have the right to choose their own chiropractor for a work injury, even if they are already treating with another provider.

What Occupational Clinics Do — and What They Don’t Do

Employer-designated clinics serve an important early function. They get you evaluated quickly, rule out emergencies, and get the initial documentation into the workers comp system.

What they often don’t do is provide the kind of thorough, objective evaluation that a work injury claim depends on over time. Visits tend to be brief. Testing tends to be basic. And the documentation produced may not fully capture the extent of your injury — which matters significantly as your claim develops.

If you have been treating at an occupational clinic and your pain is not resolving, your symptoms are being dismissed, or you feel like something is being missed, a chiropractic evaluation may be exactly what your case needs.

You Don’t Have to Stop Your Current Treatment to See Us

Adding a chiropractor to your workers comp care does not mean walking away from your current provider. In many cases injured workers treat with multiple providers simultaneously — a primary care physician managing the overall case and a chiropractor providing specialized musculoskeletal evaluation and treatment.

At Cityside Chiropractic we work within your existing workers comp claim. We communicate directly with your carrier, handle our own billing and authorization, and coordinate with any other providers or attorneys involved in your case. You don’t have to manage any of it.

What a Chiropractic Evaluation Adds to Your Case

A chiropractic work injury evaluation at Cityside goes significantly beyond what a standard occupational clinic visit produces. We use advanced objective testing tools that measure neurological function, spinal stability, balance, and range of motion with precision — not estimates.

These objective findings matter. Workers comp carriers look for measurable clinical evidence when evaluating claims. If your current documentation consists primarily of subjective complaints and basic physical findings, a comprehensive chiropractic evaluation can strengthen your clinical record considerably.

What We Commonly Find in Patients Who

Come to Us After an Occupational Clinic

Patients who come to Cityside after treating at an employer-designated facility frequently present with injuries that were incompletely evaluated on their initial visits. Cervical instability, neurological involvement, and vestibular dysfunction from head or neck trauma are among the findings that standard occupational clinic exams most commonly miss.

These are not minor findings. They affect your recovery, your treatment plan, and the strength of your claim. Identifying them early — and documenting them objectively — is critical.

Your Claim Is Still Open. Now Is the Time.

If your workers comp claim is still active, it is not too late to add a chiropractic evaluation to your care. The sooner objective findings are documented, the stronger your clinical record becomes.

You don’t need your employer’s permission. You don’t need to switch providers. You just need to call.

Call us at (401) 272-5710 or visit either location:

• Providence: 480 Broadway, Providence, RI 02909

• Cranston: 900 Reservoir Ave, Cranston, RI 02910

Cityside Chiropractic serves injured workers and motor vehicle accident patients throughout Rhode Island.

Mark Mulak, DC, MBA, MS, DACBSP®, DACRB, DAIPM, RMSK®, ICSC — Expert Witness Qualified.