Most patients come to us without a specific injury.
If you're hesitating because you didn't do anything to cause your pain, that's exactly when to come in.
A lot of musculoskeletal pain has no obvious starting point. It builds from repetitive motion at work, from sitting too long every day, from an old injury that never fully resolved. It can wake you up at night. It can show up gradually over months. It can appear one morning for no reason you can identify.
If you've been waiting for it to pass and it hasn't, this is the right place to start.
What counts as a musculoskeletal symptom
If it involves bones, joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, or nerves, it counts.
- Pain — acute, chronic, intermittent, sharp, dull, achy
- Numbness or tingling — including hands that fall asleep at night
- Weakness — in a grip, a leg, anywhere muscle should be doing work
- Stiffness or restricted movement
- Recurring injuries — same area, same pattern, again and again
- Pain with specific activities — typing, running, sleeping, sitting
- Something that "just feels off" — even if you can't describe it
If any of these have been going on longer than a week or two, we can help.
Sound like you? The diagnostic exam tells you what's actually going on.
A symptom is often a late indicator
Your body is good at adapting. When something doesn't work quite right — an old injury, a tight muscle, a habit you developed without thinking — your body compensates. It finds a way to keep you moving. The compensation becomes the new normal.
Over time, the structures picking up the slack get overworked. Eventually a symptom shows up. By then, what hurts is often not the original problem. It's the downstream effect.
This is why "I didn't do anything" is usually inaccurate. Something was building. The diagnostic exam's job is to identify what.
What about insurance?
Common assumptions worth correcting:
Workers' Comp covers musculoskeletal pain from repetitive motion and sustained postures — not just specific accidents. If your symptoms developed from work, your coverage may apply. Workers' Comp at Radius →
Auto injury is broader than you'd think — even swerving to avoid an animal can qualify. You don't have to have collided with another vehicle. Auto-injury care →
Personal insurance, HSA, and cash pay work the same regardless of whether there was a specific event. See payment options →
What happens when you come in
Your first visit is a full-hour diagnostic exam. We'll talk through your history, run orthopedic tests, watch how you move, identify what's driving your symptoms, and build a treatment plan.
You don't need to know what's wrong. You don't need a referral. You don't need to have done something specific. If something hurts, we can help figure out what's going on.