Rehabilitation after serious injury
Early, funded rehabilitation to maximise your recovery.
At Boyes Turner we aim to help our severely injured clients achieve their best possible recovery. We do this with rehabilitation. Where our client has suffered a severe injury that was caused by an employer, public body or other road user’s negligence we can often obtain rehabilitation funding from the defendant’s insurer. This allows our client’s rehabilitation to get started straight away, and in many cases ensures that their rehabilitation follows seamlessly from their acute NHS hospital care, building on the healing that has already begun. Early rehabilitation means better recovery.
We understand that our clients and their families will be experiencing the devastation of sudden, severe injury. The sooner we are instructed after the accident, the sooner we can begin to support them with funded, coordinated rehabilitation for the injured person, and financial assistance through their compensation claim.
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- Proven track record of securing life-changing compensation for families
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Accident claims
Amputation injury compensation
Burns and scalds injury claims
Head & brain injury claims
Multiple injuries & major trauma claims
PTSD & psychological injury compensation claims
Road traffic accident claims & compensation
Spinal injury claims and compensation
How we use the rehabilitation process to help our clients
Our clients deserve the best chance of recovery. Every improvement that they gain from rehabilitation gives them greater benefit and maximises their recovery. Small gains in function make a big difference after a devastating injury. This could mean access to therapies to improve mobility, speech and cognitive function, or overcoming isolation by using assistive technology to communicate with others, access education, work or enjoy hobbies and entertainment. It could provide greater independence with adapted vehicles, specialist wheelchairs or custom-made prosthetics, or enable the client to live independently in adapted accommodation with the guarantee of care and support.
Once our client’s rehabilitation is underway, we are in a stronger position to secure compensation to cover future rehabilitation costs to improve every aspect of their life, based on a realistic assessment of their abilities and lifelong needs. Rehabilitation is not a substitute for compensation.
Our process for securing our client’s rehabilitation begins as soon as we are instructed to investigate and pursue our client’s claim. This involves alerting the defendant’s insurer to our client’s injury, their need for rehabilitation and the insurer’s responsibility to compensate them and provide immediate rehabilitation funding, and securing their agreement to fund our client’s rehabilitation. We appoint an experienced case manager to carry out an immediate needs assessment (INA) and, after reviewing their recommendations, we obtain the funding to implement the rehabilitation plan. We continue to support our client and their family through their rehabilitation by attending multidisciplinary team meetings with them, reviewing regular reports on the client’s progress, and working with the insurer to ensure that funds are available for each stage of the rehabilitation through to the client’s move back to home or to supported independent living.
Like any complicated project, rehabilitation should be carefully planned, properly funded and professionally coordinated to achieve the best outcome from the available resources. Our specialist injury solicitors work with trusted case managers, medical experts and the client’s family, and with the funding insurer, to ensure that our client’s rehabilitation needs are fully and quickly met to provide them with the best possible quality of life and prospects of recovery.
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Rehabilitation FAQs
What is rehabilitation?
Rehabilitation is the process of restoring someone back to health and normal life, as far as is possible, through training and therapy. Ideally, rehabilitation should follow as soon as possible after the immediate or ‘acute’ medical or surgical hospital/NHS treatment which follows a traumatic injury. If we are instructed early enough, we can often arrange a seamless transfer from acute care to rehabilitation, to maintain and build on the healing that has begun to take place and maximise the potential for recovery.
Each client’s rehabilitation will be individual to them, depending on the extent, type, severity and complexity of their injuries. Head injury and major trauma usually involve a multidisciplinary approach to coordinate the many different treatments needed for physical, neurological and psychological recovery. Amputation often requires physical, prosthetic, pain management and psychological expertise, whereas rehabilitation for someone with PTSD but no physical injury will focus on psychiatric or psychological needs.
Rehabilitation goes far beyond ‘fixing’ a physical or psychological injury. Life will be different after a serious injury, but for many, it can still be fulfilling. In many cases, rehabilitation can help our disabled clients access education, live independently or return to work.
What rehabilitation can I get through my personal injury claim?
In addition to their compensation, our seriously injured clients benefit from funded rehabilitation to support their recovery and adjustment to the changes in many areas of their daily lives.
Rehabilitation for physical injury and disability can provide medical, surgical or pain management treatment, prosthetics after amputation or specialist vehicles and equipment to assist with mobility, as well as therapies, such as physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, hydrotherapy or occupational therapy (OT). Alongside rehabilitation for physical injury, many clients benefit from CBT and other therapies for PTSD and psychological injury, as well as counselling, where needed, for the injured person and their family.
Rehabilitation for the intellectual or cognitive effects of the injury may provide support with specialist educational needs (SEN), educational psychology, or assistive technology (IT), which can also help with a return to former or alternative work, supported by vocational rehabilitation.
A major goal of rehabilitation for many who have suffered life-changing injury is a return to independence in their own home and participation in family and social life. Rehabilitation can provide this through supported independent living, home adaptations or a move to more suitable accommodation with the guarantee of personalised care and support.
Rehabilitation following serious injury is a lifelong process. It’s rarely ‘all done’ in the first few months or years following the accident. Clients may need ongoing help to adapt to changes in life circumstances, house moves, jobs, prosthetics or ongoing counselling and therapy during tough times. We keep our clients’ rehabilitation needs under review throughout their claim and ensure that their settlement provides for any ongoing or further rehabilitation that they will need in future.
Who can benefit from rehabilitation?
We secure rehabilitation and compensation for clients who have suffered severe or life-changing injury and disability, including:
- head or brain injury;
- paraplegia or tetraplegia from spinal injury;
- amputation;
- major trauma or multiple injuries;
- severe burn and scald injuries;
- blindness or hearing loss;
- complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and chronic pain;
- PTSD or severe psychological injury.
Who pays for the injured person’s rehabilitation in a personal injury claim?
In the majority of our serious injury claims we are able to obtain funding for our client’s rehabilitation from the defendant’s insurer. We aim to secure rehabilitation funding as soon as possible after the injury to avoid any delay or gaps in our client’s treatment between NHS acute care and rehabilitation.
Where possible, we work collaboratively with the insurer under The Rehabilitation Code 2015 to ensure our client’s needs are met, whilst acting in our client’s best interests and supporting their family at all times. The Rehabilitation Code encourages injury claims lawyers and defendant insurers to prioritise the injured person’s rehabilitation in any compensation claim.
If an insurer unreasonably refuses or delays responding to our request for rehabilitation funding, we escalate our request following The Serious Injury Guide. This ensures that our request for rehabilitation funding is considered quickly by someone within the insurance company who has authority to take action. In most cases where the defendant’s liability for our client’s injury is clear, we are able to have our client’s needs assessed and get their rehabilitation underway with Rehabilitation Code insurer funding.
Occasionally, if full liability for our client’s injury is strongly disputed by the defendant, the insurer may refuse to provide Rehabilitation Code funding but agree to make an interim payment. An interim payment is a part payment of compensation paid to the claimant in advance. The injured client can use their interim payment to pay for their rehabilitation, and the costs of their rehabilitation are included in their claim.
The advantage of Rehabilitation Code funding is that it is always paid in full. Interim payments are advance payments of part of the final settlement, which may be reduced (discounted) for risks, such as contributory negligence. A discounted final settlement reduces each part of the compensation recovered by amount of the discount, including rehabilitation costs paid from interim payments.
Throughout our care of our client, our experienced solicitors also help ensure that our clients receive their full entitlement to benefits and social care.
How does early rehabilitation help with recovery from serious injury?
Recovery is better and faster with early rehabilitation. The injured person has the best chance of regaining more function and independence if rehabilitation continues on, without interruption, from the acute medical care which follows the traumatic injury.
Instructing us as soon as possible after the accident enables us to:
- fully assess the injured person’s rehabilitation needs before they leave hospital;
- secure insurer funding for rehabilitation sooner;
- ensure a seamless transition from acute care to rehabilitation, to keep the recovery momentum going;
- appoint a skilled case manager to coordinate, facilitate, communicate and support the family through the rehabilitation;
- ensure the injured client’s best interests are met throughout their NHS care and rehabilitation;
- support the family with being heard and decision making at multidisciplinary team meetings;
- help the family plan for the injured client’s future needs, such as care and support, independent living, therapies, equipment and home adaptations;
- support assessments of the injured client’s ability to return to school, work or independent living;
- help the injured person try out technology, prostheses, return to work, therapies and independent or supported living, to ensure that their compensation settlement fully meets their lifelong needs.
This approach gives the injured client:
- access to the rehabilitation and support that they need, when they need it;
- the best chance of maximising recovery and ongoing quality of life;
- full compensation which properly meets their lifelong needs.
Will rehabilitation reduce my compensation?
Rehabilitation does not replace compensation. Rehabilitation maximises recovery. Clients who participate fully in their own rehabilitation and recovery go on to live more meaningful and fulfilling lives with the help of compensation. Those who have not reached a level of recovery where they can benefit from available help do not receive the highest amount of compensation.
Compensation is not a random lottery win/windfall. Despite the impression given by the media, compensation is carefully calculated for each individual according to rules that are set by law.
In a major injury claim, most of the compensation reflects the costs of meeting the injured person’s needs arising from their new disability. The greater the recovery, the more the client can use compensation, to access help, support, technology and other assistance to live an independent or meaningful life. Whichever way you look at it, it is in our clients’ best interests to help them make the best recovery. We do this through rehabilitation.
Disability and other consequences of a severe injury affect the injured person for the rest of their life. Our commitment to rehabilitation comes from our experience of working with seriously injured clients. Our clients receive full compensation, but many also regain more than money alone can provide – restored independence, fulfilment, and the ability to participate in whatever’s important to them in life.
Making a rehabilitation injury claim
We understand how daunting it can feel to take the first step. Our specialist serious injury solicitors are here to guide you through every stage.
Getting in touch
Call us or complete our online form to receive free, confidential advice from one of our specialist serious injury solicitors. We will listen carefully to your circumstances, explain your legal options in clear and straightforward terms, and advise whether you have a claim and how we can help you access the rehabilitation and support you need.
Supporting your claim
Our specialist solicitors will gather the evidence needed to support your claim, including medical records, witness statements, accident reports, and expert opinions where required. They will establish how your injuries occurred, who was responsible, and the rehabilitation, treatment and long-term support you are likely to need. Where appropriate, we can also seek an interim payment to help fund your rehabilitation while your claim is ongoing.
Securing compensation
Our solicitors work to secure the maximum compensation possible as quickly as possible. We aim to ensure you have the financial support you need for rehabilitation, ongoing medical treatment, care, therapies, specialist equipment, adapted accommodation, lost earnings, and any other assistance required to maximise your recovery and future quality of life.
Contact us
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- We secure early, funded rehabilitation and maximum compensation in claims for adults and children who have suffered catastrophic injury, and provide practical support for their families.
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