Preliminary state crash data compiled for 2025 puts Lee County at 13,430 total crashes for the year, an average of about 37 per day, alongside 8,690 reported injuries. The figures represent an improvement over the prior year, with total crashes down roughly 9 percent and fatal crashes down about 20 percent. Novaré Injury Care and Rehab notes that even an improving number at that scale means a steady volume of county residents arriving at a clinic for the first time with no idea what the appointment involves.
The clinic is publishing an outline of that first visit, because uncertainty about the process is itself a reason people delay. A patient who imagines an immediate adjustment on a body that hurts is understandably slow to book. The reality of an injury intake is closer to an interview and an examination than to treatment.
It starts with the mechanism of the collision. Direction of impact, approximate speed, seating position, head position at the moment of contact, whether the impact was anticipated, seat belt and airbag status, and what the patient did in the hours afterward all get recorded. Those details are not administrative filler. They shape what a clinician examines and they establish the context that a later reviewer reads the file against.
The physical examination follows. Range of motion is measured against expected values, palpation identifies areas of guarding or tenderness, orthopaedic and neurological screening tests are performed as indicated, and findings are written down with the date. Where the examination suggests imaging is warranted, it is ordered rather than assumed. Novaré Injury Care and Rehab describes its accident intake at novareinjurycare.com/accident-care.
"People expect to be adjusted in the first ten minutes and are surprised when the first visit is mostly questions and measurements," said Dr. Ivan Bracic, DC, founder and clinical director of Novaré Injury Care and Rehab. "We cannot plan care for something we have not characterised, and the file has to stand on its own months later when somebody who was never in the room reads it. The examination is the appointment."
Only after that does a plan get discussed, and what it contains depends entirely on what the examination found. The clinic operates as a medically integrated practice, with a medical director alongside the chiropractic side and a service range that includes manual therapy, spinal decompression, therapeutic modalities, and structured rehabilitation. Which of those apply, if any, is a finding-driven decision rather than a template. The full service range is listed at novareinjurycare.com/services.
Documentation continues past the first visit. Progress is recorded against the initial measurements so that change over time is visible in the file rather than asserted at the end, and the record is maintained in a form that an insurer or attorney can follow. For a crash case, that continuity is frequently the difference between a file that explains itself and one that requires explaining.
Practical preparation helps the first appointment go faster. Patients are advised to bring the crash report or exchange information if they have it, their insurance card and policy information, a list of current medications, and any imaging already obtained at an emergency department or urgent care. Anyone who went to an emergency room immediately after the collision should bring those discharge papers, since that visit is part of the same record.
Residents of Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres, and the surrounding Lee County area can review services and current hours at novareinjurycare.com.
About Novaré Injury Care and Rehab
Novaré Injury Care and Rehab is a medically integrated chiropractic and physical rehab clinic in Fort Myers, FL serving auto accident and personal injury patients. Services include chiropractic adjustments, spinal decompression, shockwave therapy, laser treatment, manual therapy, diagnostic imaging, neuropathy treatment, Emsculpt Neo rehab, Emsella, and functional wellness. Sister brand of Novaré Wellness at the shared Summerlin Rd location. Hours: Mon-Fri 8 AM-6 PM.
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For more information about Novarè Medical Corporation, contact the company here:
Novaré Injury Care and Rehab
Dr. Ivan Bracic
(239) 893-2225
office@mynovare.com
15880 Summerlin Rd #114, Fort Myers, FL 33908