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PIP ASSESSMENT Musculoskeletal
johnny100
Member Posts: 125 Pioneering
I have received back from the DLA a copy of my assessment on the above.In this part of the assessment they quote various degreeson such things like left ankle dorsiflexion at 20 degrees or more,lefy ankle planterflexion 50 degrees and so on all through the body structure.How on earth have they come to these calculations with the naked eye..No measuring instruments were used for any part of my assessment.I am sure my solicitor is going to pull this part of the report apart and be asking the same questions.
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Couln't resist answering you!! ,ask the Decison Maker when or if you ring him up ! 'what does that mean', don't forget to put in letter to him too( I told him while on phone I would like a Mandatory Reconsideration and that also to follow a letter from asking for same ) May ask you was this PIP assessment you went for done by a Physiotherapist or a Doctor, because it's usually done by a nurse or paramedic,I was in nursing 30 years + and I've never given terms like that to anyone in my life, it wasn't my job to do that,and I'd done a lot nursing in orthopedics,I never had that expertise to do as you describe above in your post, baffling again as they come to such conclusions at assessments .(smiling /well infact laughing out loud here my end, keep looking at what said in your letter back to you !) if you've not been on site before Welcome!
Hope others help you via this site too
The only other specialists who know all these terms you quoted in your letter are Rheumatologists and Orthopedic Specialists.
Try not to worry Johnny 100 and wildlife.and I know it sounds glib on my part but I think you both have very valid points that at how dispiciable they are doing these assessments ,could be jo-blogs, for all we know,and any one who uses those terms to a worried, ill disabled bodied/or mentally ill person who knows nothing about these terms used and neither their meanings, is person who is a cruel and not a well intentioned person.
It's all on paper Johnny and wildlife, can be terrible thing sometimes you know especially written down., got the proof in black and white as they say.
Just found something I'd over- looked today Easter Monday(as I was filing this letter in my commy ) on my first letter I received 18th March 2017 about the results of my assessment done on 8th March 2017 which at the top is dated 20th March , now I'm no physic or medium but I rang the DM asking for MR on Monday 20th March 2017,unless I've got 50/50 hindsight ! They'd made up their minds on me before I even requested a MR, that's going to the Judge on my appeal too . Aren't they terrible, so have a good look at all dates,on letter's everything thing they have ever sent you ,I wrote every telephone call I made and to whom ,their names and even teams number's their in , I got notes in a new note book, all telephone number's, times I called and why ? this one got by me until today.Judges are judges I'll let him decide . They even added two totals wrong they've sent me as to what standards rates I will paid each month,one girl PIP office she tried her hardest to convince me I was wrong, you see they blame computer error for mistake ,someone's got to feed info into commy in first place.Could be they thought I wouldn't take it any further -dead wrong? I may be they or think I'm an old decrepit woman and wouldn't take it any further than assessment.Wrong on that one with me!
Could be a lot of eggs on faces c/o mine and your assessment results.let me know if you can put your assessment on site in the future,. ,your letter had me laughing thats for sure!
Bye for now .