Orthopaedic surgeon medico-legal reports
Independent orthopaedic reports from GMC-registered consultant orthopaedic surgeons, covering fractures, joint damage and musculoskeletal injury, prepared to CPR Part 35 standards for personal injury and clinical negligence claims.
Orthopaedic evidence sits at the centre of most injury litigation. Fractures, soft tissue damage, joint injuries and their long-term consequences are the questions the court asks most often, and an orthopaedic surgeon answers them. Expert Medical arranges independent reports from GMC-registered consultant orthopaedic surgeons who examine the claimant, review the imaging and records, and give a reasoned opinion on diagnosis, causation and prognosis.
Orthopaedics is the most frequently instructed discipline in personal injury work, and solicitors and insurers both depend on the quality of the report, whether the claim involves a wrist fracture from a fall at work, a knee injury from a road accident or an allegation of negligent surgery. Every report is prepared to CPR Part 35 and Practice Direction 35, addressed to the court rather than the instructing party.
Surgeons in active practice
Reports come from consultant orthopaedic surgeons on the GMC Specialist Register who operate on the injuries they write about. When an opinion covers fracture fixation, joint replacement or the likely outcome of further surgery, it comes from a clinician who carries out that surgery, not from theory alone.
Prognosis the claim can be valued on
The report states how far recovery has progressed, what treatment remains reasonable, and whether symptoms are likely to resolve or persist, including any risk of future arthritis or further surgery. That gives solicitors and insurers a concrete basis for valuing general damages and future loss, not a vague estimate.
Matched to the injury
Orthopaedics divides into sub-specialties, and the instruction is matched accordingly. A shoulder case goes to an upper limb surgeon, a back case to a spinal specialist, an ankle fracture to a foot and ankle surgeon, so the opinion rests on the expert's own operative field rather than general knowledge.
The discipline most claims turn on
When the injury is a fracture, a damaged joint or a back that no longer bends, the orthopaedic report carries the claim. Ours are written by consultants who treat these injuries in current practice, reasoned in plain language and prepared so both sides, and the court, can rely on them.
- Fracture and dislocation reports across all limbs
- Spinal injury reports, from soft tissue to vertebral fracture
- Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand injury assessments
- Hip, knee, ankle and foot injury assessments
- Whiplash-associated and other soft tissue injuries
- Opinion on future arthritis and joint deterioration
- Negligent orthopaedic surgery and missed fractures
- Work capacity and functional restriction opinions
- Condition and prognosis, breach of duty and causation reports
- Oral evidence and Part 35 question responses where required
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