Dr Claxton’s holds the Cardiff University Bond Solon (CUBS) Expert Witness Civil Certificate (2021), and has successfully completed the ‘Pain Experts’ course, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the Civil Procedure Rules Part 35, further solidifying his credentials in the expert witness field.

Over the past four years, Dr Claxton has diligently handled over 300 reports, encompassing a diverse range of personal injury and medical negligence scenarios, accepting instructions for claimant, defendant and joint report cases, and offering a responsive, timely, and forensic approach to his medical reports.

Throughout his time as an expert witness, Dr Claxton has completed approximately 70 clinical negligence related reports annually, looking at breach of duty, condition and prognosis, causation and liability. His scope of expertise extends across various facets of adult chronic pain management, encompassing conditions such as chronic pain syndromes, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), spinal pain, and musculoskeletal pain presentations. His wealth of experience positions him as a sought after authority for opinion on medical negligence within chronic pain management and personal injury cases.

Dr Claxton has experience in Court and has been praised in judgements whereby he has excelled in his opinion, forensic and evidentiary report writing.

Dr Claxton has extensive experience in cases associated with:

Personal injury relating to:

• Chronic pain
  – Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
  – Fibromyalgia pain after trauma/surgery
• Whiplash associated disorders (WAD)
• Management of knee pain
• Neuromodulation
• Spinal cord stimulators (SCS)
• Sacral nerve stimulators (SNS)
• Musculoskeletal pain presentation
• Industrial disease
• Post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN)

Clinical negligence relating to:

• Medical negligence related to pain management
• Medical negligence related to anaesthesia
• Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES)
• Failed back surgery (FBS)

Specific cases relating to pain:

• Soft tissue injury
• Chronic pain conditions:
  – Chronic post surgical pain
  – Chronic post-traumatic pain
  – Chronic primary pain
  – Chronic widespread pain (CWP)
• Pain injections:
  – Joint
  – Steroid
  – Cortisone
  – Transforaminal epidural
  – Caudal epidural
  – Facet
• Whiplash pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Long Covid pain
• Myofascial pain
• Abdominal pain
• Knee pain
• Amputation related pain
  – Phantom limb pain
• Lower back pain (all)
• Sciatica
• Eye pain
• Neck and shoulder pain
• Joint pains (all)
• Interventional pain (medical negligence)
• Unexplained pain
• Disproportionate pain
• Chest pain (musculoskeletal)
• Nerve related pain
• Neuropathic pain
• Nociceptive pain
• Chronic secondary pain
• Degenerative pain:
  – Osteoarthritis
  – Inflammatory arthritis
  – Post-traumatic arthritis
• Constitutional pain
• Gynaecological pain symptoms
• Scar and adhesion-related pain
• Denervation

Dr Claxton’s appointment availability is from 2-4 weeks and he has a report turnaround time of 4-6 weeks.