Digital X-Ray Walk-in Clinic in Ridley, PA

AFC Urgent Care Provides Broken Bone X-Rays and Injury Treatment

When suffering a fall or minor accident, someone may not immediately appear to have suffered a fracture. Even a minor fracture needs proper medical treatment or could worsen, resulting in additional problems and an even longer recovery time. To avoid a more protracted and more expensive recovery, come to AFC Urgent Care Ridley in Delaware County today to be seen by our providers and access our on-site digital x-ray. Our providers use this powerful diagnostic tool seven days a week to check our patients for fractures. A visit to an urgent care center is a much more affordable choice than getting an X-ray in an emergency room and is much quicker than waiting for your primary care provider to be available. Skip long waits and high medical bills and visit AFC Urgent Care Ridley today for a digital X-ray.

Is an x-ray necessary? Could I just wait until I feel better and get an x-ray then?

If someone has a fracture and delays treatment by a medical professional, they could aggravate their injury further. A digital x-ray at AFC Urgent Care Ridley can look for fractures. Without confirmation, an injury could get worse. Patients could risk permanent damage to a bone or an area of their body by delaying an examination, making recovery time longer and more expensive. Falls and accidents can cause a sprain or strain even if a bone is not fractured. These injuries need to be also treated to avoid becoming worse.

Is it uncomfortable or painful to get an x-ray? Why is it called a "digital x-ray?"

There is no discomfort in receiving an x-ray. If you have visited a dentist for a yearly check-up, you likely have already received an x-ray. While the part of your body may be in a bit of pain, an x-ray of that body part will not add any additional distress, and it is as quick and painless as getting an x-ray of your teeth. When taking an x-ray, beams will pass through the part of the body being examined and produce an image. The colors on that image indicate what those beams are passing through. For example:

• Bones – Dense bones appear white on an x-ray image. If fractured, there will be dark spots along the bone.
• Muscles – Being less dense than bones, these parts of the body will show up as gray.
• Air in your lungs – The air in someone's lungs appears much darker on an x-ray since they are the least dense body parts.

Our urgent care center takes a "digital x-ray" because it produces a digital image. Gone are the days when an X-ray would produce a picture on a film. A digital X-ray is just as good as a traditional X-ray, can often be zoomed in on, and is much easier to transport or transmit to other medical professionals. Once our skilled technicians take a digital X-ray, it will be read and analyzed. Our board-certified provider will review the results with you, and a copy of the x-ray will be given to you on a CD to take home or forward to your primary care provider at your request.

AFC Urgent Care Ridley is open seven days a week in Delco. We are open Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 8 PM and Saturday and Sunday from 8 AM to 5 PM. We are located at 2623 E Macade Blvd Ridley, PA 19043. Our walk-in medical clinic accepts most major insurances. Visit our Insurance page to see a list of carriers we currently take. Uninsured? Call our friendly staff today at (267) 635-6060 and ask about our affordable self-pay rates.

We look forward to serving you here in the Ridley, PA, area and helping you feel better!

Additional Services You May Need

• Athlete's Foot Treatment
• COVID-19 Testing
• Cuts & Lacerations Care
• Digital X-Ray Services
• DOT Physical Exams
• Drug Testing
• Flu Shots
• Hand, Foot, & Mouth Disease
• Immigration Physical Exams
• Lab Work
• Lyme Disease Treatment
• Occupational Healthcare
• Physicals – School, Sports, DMV
• Pink Eye and Eye Infections
• Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment
• Routine Checkups
• RSV Testing & Treatment
• Seasonal Allergy Treatment
• Sports Injuries Treatment
• STD Testing
• STD Treatment
• Tetanus & Diphtheria Vaccine
• Tick Bites Treatment
• Travel Vaccinations
• Urinary Tract Infection
• Workers' Comp