Independent occupational therapy expert witness opinion is provided in workplace injury matters arising from injury sustained in employment contexts. Opinion focuses on functional performance within real-world work environments and the interaction between injury, job demands, and vocational sustainability.
Instructions commonly require analysis of work capacity, reliability, and whether functional limitations restrict the ability to perform pre-injury or alternative duties in a sustainable manner.
Occupational therapy medicolegal opinion in workplace injury matters may assist with:
A functional and vocational lens is applied, with consideration commonly given to:
Workplace injury instructions frequently involve a range of work-related functional presentations, including:
To refer a workplace injury matter or request occupational therapy expert opinion, please get in touch.
Occupational therapy expert opinion provides independent analysis of functional capacity following injury, examining how physical, cognitive, or psychological impairment affects real-world work performance and vocational sustainability within a medicolegal context.
All work is non-treating and independent. Opinion is directed to functional and vocational capacity, rather than rehabilitation planning, treatment, or return-to-work coordination.
Opinion commonly addresses physical tolerances, cognitive and behavioural functioning, endurance, consistency, reliability, and the capacity to perform work aligned with education, training, and experience on a sustainable basis.
Where relevant, analysis considers how psychological or cognitive symptoms affect task completion, attention, judgement, memory, pace, interpersonal functioning, and the capacity to maintain reliable employment, integrating observed function with medical evidence.
No. This practice operates as a specialist occupational therapy medicolegal service and does not undertake functional capacity evaluations for employer-based or return-to-work programs. The focus is deliberately specialised, enabling rigorous, high-quality analysis of functional and vocational capacity for medicolegal purposes.
Yes. Reports are prepared with medicolegal scrutiny in mind, providing objective analysis, transparent reasoning, and defensible conclusions suitable for use in disputed or litigated matters.
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.