Physiotherapist Wrongly Diagnoses Injury

Katie was 18 years old. She went to see her general practitioner regarding a pain she had had in her right foot for several months. The pain was in the area under her toes. Her GP thought that she may have a condition called Morton’s Neuroma and referred her to a physiotherapist who diagnosed her with Morton’s Neuroma despite not undertaking any tests to confirm the diagnosis.

Other than being given inner soles to wear in both of her shoes no other conservative treatment was offered. Katie returned to see the physiotherapist and was told that she would need a cortisone injection. She returned a month later and was given a cortisone injection into the top of her right foot.

Two or three weeks after the injection she noticed that her right foot had lost some of the fat around the area of the third and fourth toe. The skin was drier and purple in colour at times worsening as time went on and being very sensitive to heat and cold.

Katie later saw a podiatrist who told her that she did not have Morton’s Neuroma. She was informed that there was a nerve that was causing the pain due to the type of shoes that she had been wearing. She was also told that she had flat feet. He told her to wear better shoes which would provide her feet with more support. Since wearing shoes with more support the pain under her foot seemed improved.

Thus Katie was wrongly diagnosed with Morton’s Neuroma and as such the treatment that followed was incorrect. After sending a letter of claim and an offer to settle the case to the Defendant Trust, the case settled out of court for the sum of £5,000.

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