While some lawyers may suggest you keep
a pain diary on a day - today basis to record the problems you are having after an accident, the decision to have such a diary is really a personal decision.
The study, published in the January edition of the journal Rheumatology International, examined the effect of a daily
pain diary on recovery from acute lower back sprain.
Not exact matches
Don't get addicted to the
pain diary Cooper does warn, however, of the danger of focusing so much
on your
pain that you obsessively fill in an entry every hour of the day.
The judge's suggestion that one ought to assume that a
pain diary is being kept in all personal injury litigation is also inconsistent with the fact that the burden of providing a reasonable explanation falls squarely
on the party who has failed to make disclosure in accordance with the rules.
[48] One can not say with certainty that the judge would have reached a different conclusion
on the use of the
pain diary if he had considered all relevant factors, in particular whether there was a reasonable explanation for the delay in its disclosure.