While the medical evidence before the court is primarily based
on the subjective complaints of the plaintiff, there is no evidence that the plaintiff's symptoms continued beyond what would normally be expected for these types of soft tissue injuries.
Further, one of her medical witnesses at trial expressed doubts about the extent of her pain and the court found that other medical witnesses called by the plaintiff based their opinions largely
on the subjective complaints by the plaintiff as opposed to objective evidence.
Their new approach will hopefully identify those patients who may be missed by basing the evaluation simply
on subjective complaints.
Not exact matches
Although 2 1/2 years have passed since the accident and the plaintiff still complains about neck pain, back pain and limited range of motion, I am not satisfied,
on a balance of probabilities, that these
subjective complaints are sufficiently supported by any objective evidence of continuing injury.
They do not put much weight
on the
complaints that you self - report to them because they consider these
complaints to be
subjective in nature.