Orthopedic Urgent Care

Orthopedic Urgent Care or Self-Care? Check Your Symptoms First

Before You Go to Orthopedic Urgent Care—Know If It's Truly Urgent

The Ubie AI Symptom Checker helps you figure out if you should go now, make an orthopedic appointment, or treat your injury at home.

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Check one of these common symptoms:

Sprains and strains

Suspected fractures

Sports injuries

Dislocations

Sudden, severe joint pain

What Orthopedic Urgent Care Is For

Orthopedic urgent care clinics handle bone, joint, and muscle injuries that need quick attention but aren't life-threatening.

Typical reasons to go include:

  • Sprains and strains

  • Suspected fractures

  • Sports injuries

  • Dislocations

  • Sudden, severe joint pain

Injuries That Can Often Wait

Some orthopedic issues can safely be seen during a scheduled visit—or managed at home until then:

  • Mild joint soreness

  • Minor sprains that improve with rest

  • Mild back pain without numbness or weakness

  • Overuse injuries that develop slowly

Check Before You Go—It Could Save You Hours

The Ubie AI Symptom Checker:

  1. Asks the same questions an orthopedic specialist would during triage.

  2. Analyzes your symptoms using current orthopedic and sports medicine guidelines.

  3. Tells you the safest next step—orthopedic urgent care, ER, specialist visit, or home treatment.

You'll know if your injury needs urgent treatment or just rest and monitoring.

The Cost of Orthopedic Urgent Care

An orthopedic urgent care visit can cost $150–$300 before imaging or tests.

Ubie is free, available anytime, and takes less than 3 minutes—helping you avoid unnecessary trips.

Not every orthopedic problem needs an immediate trip to orthopedic urgent care.

When to Seek Orthopedic Urgent Care Immediately

If the symptom checker says urgent care is needed, go right away for:

  • Severe pain after injury

  • Inability to move a joint or bear weight

  • Obvious bone deformity

  • Swelling or bruising that worsens quickly

  • Numbness or tingling after injury

Start with Ubie Before You Leave the House

Your mobility matters.

Check your symptoms with the Ubie AI Symptom Checker before you decide—it's:

  • Backed by science

  • Doctor-approved

  • Trusted by 12 million users worldwide

Content updated on Aug 27, 2025

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How Ubie Can Help You

With a free 3-min Orthopedic Urgent Care quiz, powered by Ubie's AI and doctors, find possible causes of your symptoms.

This questionnaire is customized to your situation and symptoms, including the following personal information:

  • Biological Sex - helps us provide relevant suggestions for male vs. female conditions.

  • Age - adjusts our guidance based on any age-related health factors.

  • History - considers past illnesses, surgeries, family history, and lifestyle choices.

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✔  When to see a doctor

✔︎  What causes your symptoms

✔︎  Treatment information etc.

Ubie is supervised by 50+ medical experts worldwide

Our symptom checker AI is continuously refined with input from experienced physicians, empowering them to make more accurate diagnoses.

Maxwell J. Nanes, DO

Maxwell J. Nanes, DO

Emergency Medicine

Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Waukesha Wisconsin, USA

Caroline M. Doan, DO

Caroline M. Doan, DO

Internal Medicine

Signify Health

Benjamin Kummer, MD

Benjamin Kummer, MD

Neurology, Clinical Informatics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Charles Carlson, DO, MS

Charles Carlson, DO, MS

Psychiatry

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Dale Mueller, MD

Dale Mueller, MD

Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Associates

Ravi P. Chokshi, MD

Ravi P. Chokshi, MD

Obstetrics and gynecology

Penn State Health

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Which is the best Symptom Checker?

Which is the best Symptom Checker?

Ubie’s symptom checker demonstrated a Top-10 hit accuracy of 71.6%, surpassing the performance of several leading symptom checkers in the market, which averaged around 60% accuracy in similar assessments.

Link to full study:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.29.24312810v1