Managing CES Symptoms With a Successful Compensation Claim
The symptoms and function losses associated with complete cauda
equina syndrome can be totally life-changing.
If negligent medical care has contributed to this shocking outcome, talk to a specialist solicitor about how to make a claim for compensation.
The impact of cauda equina syndrome
This fairly rare condition can cause loss of mobility, loss of bowel and bladder sensation and control as well as sexual dysfunction.
Such an appalling combination of disabling symptoms can undermine the patient’s quality of life in so many ways including their self-confidence, their personal relationships, their ability to work, their ability to undertake a wide range of tasks and activities as well as limiting their very independence.
Where negligent medical care is found to have played a significant role, a successful claim for compensation will address the ways in which the negligence has affected the patient’s outcome and the associated financial losses and costs.
This can include any loss of earnings, both past and future that the patient is suffering insofar as they have been caused by the negligence. It may be, for example, that a delay in diagnosis allowed the patient’s nerve compression to worsen before surgery was finally initiated, leaving the patient with worse mobility losses than would otherwise have been the case.
A successful claim would also address issues such as the patient’s need for specialist treatment or equipment to manage their symptoms. It may also address the costs of household alterations where the patient is struggling to navigate safely and successfully around their own home.
How to make a claim
Contact a specialist, experienced medical negligence solicitor. They will want to hear your account of what has happened and the relevant dates of interactions with medical care, the development of symptoms and the impact which this terrible condition has had on your life. They will use this information to help you to develop a witness statement.
They will obtain copies of your medical records and engage the services of the best medical experts to analyse the quality of your care with a view to identifying if and when negligence occurred and its impact on your outcome.
Where negligence is found to have played a significant role, they will support you in making a claim for compensation.
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Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal practice with a specific focus cauda equina syndrome claims.
Contact us today to talk to an experienced solicitor, free of charge, about the possibility of making a claim.
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