Category: Pain

Chronic pain causes excruciating, debilitating pain for months and in some cases, years, affecting nearly 28 million people in Britain alone – more than those who have diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic condition that causes severe and hard to relieve pain. It commonly affects one of the limbs – arms, legs, hands or feet, but sometimes whole limbs can be affected. It usually occurs following an injury or trauma to part of the body i.e. broken bone, sprain, burn or […]

Providing surveillance evidence can be key in turning a case in favour of either claimant or defendant if accompanied by the expertise of the right Medico-Legal Expert Witness. The following case studies give examples of each of these. Case Study One: Mr X slipped and fell hard on an icy surface when exiting a company […]

What is Fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia is a type of nerve pain or neuropathic pain caused by a dysfunction of the nervous system, which leads to a constellation of characteristic symptoms and signs in sufferers. The hallmark symptom of fibromyalgia is widespread body pain. In association with this, patients will often exhibit a very marked sense of […]

COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME (CRPS) is one of the most painful types of pain known. Medico legal cases involving chronic pain (pain that lasts for three months or more) is challenging for both the claimant and the defendant to prove or refute because of the subjective nature of pain. This is especially true for cases […]

As you know, Defence will be seeking to prove either that the pain the Claimant has is not as bad as they’re saying it is, or that the pain they are currently suffering is not a direct consequence of the incident in question. The Claimant wants to prove to the court that the pain they […]

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), is a chronic and widespread pain disorder which is characterised by widespread body pain, poor sleep, tiredness, fatigue, cognitive disturbance and a constellation of other symptoms. Anyone can develop fibromyalgia, although it affects around seven times as many women as men. The condition typically develops between the ages of 30 and 50, […]