Our Orthopaedics negligence claims expertise
Our specialist medical
negligence team has a wide variety of experience in
orthopaedic negligence. Our experienced solicitors
have won many claims for victims of orthopaedic
negligence.
Orthopaedics refers to the bones, muscles and
joints of the human body. A doctor specialising in orthopaedics
will often handle patients that have suffered bone fractures or who
need joint replacement or ligament reconstruction surgery.
Orthopaedics covers a huge range of
personal injuries, from diagnosing a broken arm to performing a hip
replacement operation. The main areas in which an orthopaedic
surgeon will specialise include:
- the hand, shoulder and elbow surgery
- joint reconstruction
- paediatric orthopaedics
- foot and ankle surgery
- back and spine surgery
- musculoskeletal oncology
- surgical sports medicine
- orthopaedic trauma.
Although thousands of people are treated successfully for
orthopaedic health problems each year, errors can and do happen.
Mistakes made by doctors in the field of orthopaedics are
unfortunately fairly commonplace.
Orthopaedic surgeons are now more than twice as likely to
be sued than those in any other wing of the medical profession.
There are many medical errors and mistakes that can have serious
consequences and result in medical negligence claim for orthopaedic
negligence.
We have considerable expertise in orthopaedic
cases covering a wide variety of medical errors and injuries.
Our cases have involved:
- Delay in diagnosis of fracture
- Problems arising during hip, knee or elbow replacement
- Wrong site surgery
- Lack of consent to surgery
- Post operative infection
- Delay in diagnosis of congenital hip dysplasia/developmental
hip dysplasia
- Equipment malfunction
- Nerve damage
- Incorrect size of prosthesis
Contact us
For further information or if you believe you
have an orthopaedic negligence legal
claim, please contact our medical
negligence team on freephone 0800 358 3848,
email personalinjury@ffw.com or
complete our short enquiry form.
All enquiries are completely free of charge
and we will investigate all funding options for you including
legal aid and no win, no fee.