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Get a comprehensive eleven page single spaced checklist to be sure you are not missing important medical testimony that the physical therapist can give the jury. The best guarantee in the law form business. If you do not agree this is worth every penny, just ask for your money back in 60 days. You get your money back! You have nothing to lose! Do not miss using the physical therapist in personal injury cases. A checklist for their medical testimony should be in your toolbox of forms. This legal form is designed for plaintiffs’ attorneys in personal injury cases. It is based on the assumption that the client has received physical therapy, and you want to maximize the impact of testimony on the client's present and future problems.
Lawyers frequently overlook physical therapists when the issue is proving the damages suffered by a personal injury claimant. Don't be one of those lawyers! Read more - scroll down - below - about how physical therapists can help build damages testimony. Over the years, this question checklist form will save you hours of trial prep time. -- a real value for the time it saves you! But that's not all. This checklist form gives you valuable ideas and advice on how to make the direct examination of your physical therapist witness effective in blocking defense attempts to minimize the injury. More about how physical therapist's testimony can help build personal injury damages.Lawyers for claimants frequently overlook the help that a physical therapist (PT) can provide, both to the bodily injured client in restoring function and reducing pain, and also proving the sequalae of the injury. Testimony about the therapy given is part of what can used. Better yet, the records of a PT often has more documentation of measurements of functional loss (that is objective, reliable, and thorough), than that of the attending medical doctor. A plaintiff who can produce an impressive set of objective measurements of the movement problems caused by the injury (thus confirming the claimant’s testimony of impairment) has an advantage with the jury. Further, the PT’s records or testimony regarding the patient’s statements of pain go a long way to inducing belief in the plaintiff’s testimony as to how he/she hurt in the years before the trial date. Remember Fed. R. Evid., Rule 803, and like state rules allow the physical therapist to testify that the plaintiff moaned and reported pain! "(3) A statement of the declarant's then existing state of mind, emotion, sensation, or physical condition (such as ... mental feeling, pain, and bodily health) is admissible as not subject to the hearsay rule.] [Emphasis supplied.] Using the PT to give reports of the plaintiff's pain is more effective with the trier of fact that using the plaintiff or the family of the plaintiff. Start to understand how a PT can help you (as a claimant’s lawyer) with testimony of limited future physical function, in settlements and trials, by reading the Bureau of Labor Statistics description in its 2005 annual Occupational Outlook Handbook. Physical therapists.... examine patients’ medical histories and then test and measure the patients’ strength, range of motion, balance and coordination, posture, muscle performance, respiration, and motor function. They also determine patients’ ability to be independent and reintegrate into the community or workplace after injury or illness.... [Emphasis suppplied.] Physical therapists are health care professionals who treat medical problems that involve the abilities to move and perform functional activities in daily life. Often, lawyers do not understand that PT’s are medically trained to objectively describe the problems that limit movement and functional activities, then “evaluate” the functional limitations on doing work or daily activity. In short, they can say with authority what the plaintiff cannot do in ordinary activities of an occupation or the everyday movements of daily living. Welcome to the 21st century of medicine! Today a new physical therapist cannot be licensed unless that have a master's or doctor's degree from an accredited college. (In all states, the accrediting organization does not accredit schools that graduate physical therapists with only a bachelor's degree.) The history of physical therapy as a profession is illustrated by the description given by the University of Minnesota. “The Program in Physical Therapy at the University of Minnesota began as a certificate program in 1941. It expanded to a baccalaureate program in 1946, a master of science program in 1997 and a professional doctoral degree program in 2002. All students entering the program and completing all requirements graduate with a professional Doctoral Degree in Physical Therapy.” The University of Southern California today describes their “entry level” physical therapy program, with the following words. "The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program at the University of Southern California prepares graduates to be autonomous practitioners, capable of evaluating and treating patients without the need for referral from another practitioner, but ready to work in collaboration with other health professionals. The Doctor of Physical Therapy is the authoritative practitioner in the diagnosis and treatment of movement dysfunction. " [Emphasis supplied.] Think about it. Respected universities that have medical schools train PT’s to be “capable of evaluating and treating patients without the need for referral from another practitioner,” and to be the professional person who is the “authoritative practitioner in the diagnosis and treatment of movement dysfunction.” That means you as a lawyer have a rich source of additional medical testimony available to you. Do not miss out of using that personal injury testimony! Our # MED3434 Plaintiff's Checklist: Direct Exam of Physical Therapist is a versatile form. You will use it to:
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