Sometimes you can develop an injury or condition over a period of time due to repetitive motions whilst at work. Repetitive Strain Injury is really a blanket name that is used to describe many different types of soft tissue injuries including Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tendinitis.

Proving that you should succeed in a claim is often a complex and difficult process.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a condition that occurs in the wrist.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the result of a pinched nerve in one or both of the wrists. When this nerve is pinched, it inhibits the brain's ability to send and receive messages to and from the muscles and other tissues of the hand and wrist.

In Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, more often than not the nerve that is affected is the median nerve. The median nerve is compressed at the point at which it passes through the wrist. Because of the compression, the nerve does not function properly, thus causing the condition known as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

The condition is also known as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). Repetitive Strain Injury is really a blanket name that is used to describe many different types of soft tissue injuries including Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tendinitis.

In most cases Repetitive Strain Injury is brought on by a combination of the following:

• Bad Ergonomics
• Poor posture
• Stress
• Repetitive Motion
• Typing Injury

Back Injuries can also be classed as an RSI particularly if the injury has been caused or aggravated by repetitive lifting or bending whilst at work. The most common incidence of this involves nurses and care assistants who frequently have to lift their patients in the course of their work.

The rarely suffer an "accident" on a specific day but experience a gradual onset of symptoms This can make it harder to prove that the cause of the injury is work related.

Jeanette Miller succeeded in a case which resulted in our client recovering £39,000.00 where our client was an employee for a Nursing Home. She had worked for them since 1998. During the course of her employment she was required to carry out tasks which involved manual handling.

In particular she was required to lift heavy patients without manual and/or mechanical assistance. The unsafe lifting practices over the 14 years of her employment led to our client complaining of back pain. She was referred to a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon by her GP in 2000 and in June 2000 underwent an MRI Scan which revealed that she had slipped 3 discs in her spine. She was advised to cease working and had not worked since the date of the results of the scan.

The client came to this firm having been turned down by other solicitors who said she was outside of the time period in which she could bring a claim. We saw things differently and after sending a four page letter to the client's employers setting out all of our allegations, their insurers admitted responsibility for her condition.

Whatever your query, even if you have been told it is too late or too difficult to claim, please call us for a second opinion.

Whatever the circumstances of your claim, we at J S Miller are here to listen and do what we can to achieve justice and provide support to you whether we simply answer a few questions you may have or assist you in dealing with a full claim for compensation.

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