Vestibular specialist medico-legal reports
Independent reports on vertigo, dizziness and balance disorders after head injury or whiplash, prepared by GMC-registered consultants in ENT and audiovestibular medicine and written to comply with CPR Part 35.
Dizziness after a road traffic accident or a blow to the head is easy to dismiss and hard to prove. Expert Medical arranges independent vestibular assessments with GMC-registered consultants in ENT and audiovestibular medicine, who examine the claimant, review the records and set out whether a vestibular disorder such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo or labyrinthine concussion is present, what caused it and how it is likely to progress.
Solicitors instruct vestibular specialist reports where a claimant describes vertigo, unsteadiness or motion intolerance after whiplash or head injury, symptoms a general orthopaedic report cannot fully address. Insurers rely on the same evidence to understand whether reported dizziness is vestibular in origin. Every report is prepared under CPR Part 35, with the expert's overriding duty owed to the court.
Consultants in balance medicine
Assessments are carried out by GMC-registered consultants in ENT and audiovestibular medicine who diagnose and treat balance disorders in clinical practice. That matters because vestibular symptoms overlap with anxiety, migraine and neck injury, and separating them takes a clinician who works with conditions such as BPPV and vestibular migraine every week.
Objective testing where needed
Dizziness is subjective, which is why these claims are contested. Where clinically indicated, the expert can support the opinion with recognised vestibular investigations, such as positional testing for BPPV, so the diagnosis rests on examination findings rather than the claimant's account alone, and the causation opinion can withstand challenge.
Causation addressed directly
Vertigo after trauma has several possible mechanisms, including BPPV triggered by head movement in a collision and labyrinthine concussion after a blow to the head. The report explains which mechanism fits the history and examination, distinguishes accident-related symptoms from pre-existing conditions, and gives a reasoned prognosis under CPR Part 35.
Balance evidence for claims that turn on dizziness
Dizziness rarely shows on a scan, so these claims stand or fall on the quality of the clinical assessment. A vestibular specialist report gives the court a reasoned diagnosis, a causation opinion tied to the mechanism of injury, and a prognosis the parties can value the claim against.
- Vertigo and dizziness after road traffic accidents
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) following whiplash
- Labyrinthine concussion after head injury
- Post-traumatic vestibular migraine
- Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD)
- Balance problems and falls risk after trauma
- Tinnitus and hearing symptoms alongside vestibular injury
- Opinion on causation, prognosis and treatment options
- Condition and prognosis reports under CPR Part 35
- Responses to Part 35 questions after the report is served
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