Medico-Legal
Are you eligable for free Physiotherapy treatment?
Evidence suggests that early Physiotherapy rehabilitation reduces chronicity of injuries and is therefore in the claimants’ best interests. The opportunity for private physiotherapy is often available once liability is conceded; however, many clients are unaware of this. Please contact us to discuss your own situation.
What can Grange Physiotherapy offer your personal injury firm?
- Early and easy access for your client to physiotherapy treatment.
- A cost effective and comprehensive medico legal reporting service
- Local contact to discuss the medical aspect of claims and unpack medical terminology
- Provide in-house seminars on musculo-skeletal injuries and current research
- Delayed payment facilities
Why choose Physiotherapists to do your reports/expert witness?
We recognise that their may be some reluctance on the part of some solicitors to depart from established practices of seeking a medico legal report from an Orthopaedic Consultant or General Practitioners. However, Chartered Physiotherapists are fully qualified to produce medico-legal reports and are often in a stronger position to be the expert witnesses as we spend more time with clients during rehabilitation and are the experts in musculo-skeletal soft tissue injuries.
Medico-legal reports from Grange Physiotherapy are a cost-effective option compared to reports from other experts. (Please contact for fees)
Our usual practice would be to see your client within 24 hours to one week of receiving instructions and then to produce a report within a ten day period.
Reports are comprehensive, including history, examination, prognosis and treatment regime recommendations, and can cover the following aspects of a patient’s injury:
- The normality/abnormality of the musculo-skeletal system
- The degree of functional disability of a client, and the expected prognosis with particular reference to work and leisure activities
- How this has changed, and is likely to change in the future, as a result of rehabilitation
- Whether further rehabilitation would be likely to have a positive effect
- Where relevant, the degree of pain currently being suffered and likely to be suffered during the rehabilitation programme
- The amount of time and effort that the patient is having to devote to the recovery programme
