| The medical term Orthopaedics refers to your bones, | | | | why it wasn't, someone should be held accountable. |
| muscles and joints and the doctors who work in this | | | | These errors can occur during the diagnosis, treatment |
| field will often handle patients who have suffered bone | | | | or prognosis of an illness as well as being a |
| fractures or need joint replacement or ligament | | | | combination of all three of these. |
| surgery. | | | | If you feel that you have been mistreated and it has |
| Every year in the UK thousands of people are treated | | | | lead to you suffering as a result then you could be |
| successfully for Orthopaedic health problems; however | | | | entitled to make a claim for compensation. Some of |
| some of the people treated do suffer mistakes at the | | | | the most common reasons for an orthopedic medical |
| hands of the people who are there to help them. | | | | negligence claim are as follows: |
| These mistakes are common and this type of medical | | | | Â- Inaccurate or late diagnosis |
| negligence is now two or three times more likely to | | | | Â- Failure to take tests or misinterpretation of test |
| happen than any other medical negligence claim. | | | | results |
| The orthopaedics branch of medicine involves the | | | | Â- Poor treatment of fractures |
| preservation and restoration of the musculoskeletal | | | | Â- Poor operative technique |
| system and the surgeons involved in this aspect of | | | | Â- Damage to nerves or circulation during medical |
| medicine have the job of diagnosing your condition and | | | | procedures |
| treating it using the appropriate method, which could be | | | | Â- Inadequate cleaning and dressing of wounds or |
| medicine, exercise or surgery. Finally a surgeon in the | | | | infection |
| orthopaedics branch of medicine will perform | | | | If you have suffered due to Orthopedic medical |
| rehabilitation on a patient by recommending exercise or | | | | negligence in the last three years then you could be |
| physical therapy to restore movement. An orthopaedic | | | | entitled to make a claim for compensation. In order to |
| surgeon will also inform you of how to prevent further | | | | be successful in a medical negligence claim you need |
| injury by providing information and treatment plans. | | | | to be able to prove that the injury you are or were |
| Orthopaedic treatment can cover a huge range of | | | | suffering from was caused due to a lapse in the |
| personal injuries such as diagnosing a broken arm to | | | | medical care that you received. To prove this you |
| performing a hip replacement operation. The main | | | | would need to obtain statements from any relevant |
| areas in which an orthopaedic surgeon will specialise | | | | family members or friends. Your medical records |
| include: the hand, shoulder and elbow surgery, joint | | | | would need to be obtained and this normally comes |
| reconstruction, paediatric orthopaedics, foot and ankle | | | | with a fee, which brings me to my next point, any fees |
| surgery, spine surgery, musculoskeletal oncology, | | | | and cost encountered along the way will get paid back |
| surgical sports medicine, and orthopaedic trauma. | | | | on top of damages in a successful compensation |
| Within medicine accidents and mistakes do happen | | | | claim. |
| and in most cases they are harmless. Medical | | | | If you are hoping to make a claim for compensation |
| professionals are merely just human and human error | | | | then contact a legal team today, who will be able to |
| is often unavoidable but in cases where an error | | | | examine your case and explain where you stand |
| should have been avoided and there is no valid reason | | | | legally. |