CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME
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Pressure on the nerves at the bottom of your spinal cord can result in paralysis and loss of bowel, bladder, and sexual function.
Early diagnosis and treatment can avoid serious long term injury.
Medical Negligence claims often arise where the GP or hospital doctor simply thinks that the patient is suffering from a slipped disc or referred back pain and fails to properly investigate whether there is perineal numbness, difficulties in passing urine or stool, and the causes of altered leg sensation and pain.
Cauda equina syndrome is a surgical emergency.
You need a surgeon to relieve the pressure on the nerves before the damage becomes permanent and more extensive.
Cauda equina cases are complex as the more serious the reported symptoms the more likely it is that the doctors should have made a diagnosis. However surgery is thought to avoid progression of symptoms rather than allow complete return to normal and so the more serious the symptoms before surgery the more likely the patient will have at least some long term symptoms even if treated earlier.
Your witness statement needs to be as detailed as possible and taken by a specialist solicitor with experience of cauda equina cases as it is important you are asked the right questions about your symptoms, examinations, and treatment in order that the complexities of the medicine can be properly explored by the experts and Court.
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