Medicolegal Services

Our medicolegal services provide comprehensive, evidence-based assessment and reporting to support individuals, legal professionals, and insurers in understanding functional capacity and the impact of injury or illness. We focus on delivering clear, objective, and clinically robust reports that assist in informed decision-making across personal injury, compensation, and legal matters.

Our multidisciplinary team, including occupational therapists and mental health clinicians, complete detailed functional capacity assessments, work capacity evaluations, and activities of daily living assessments. We consider both physical and psychological factors, ensuring a holistic understanding of how a person’s condition impacts their daily life, independence, and ability to engage in work and meaningful activities.

At Aligned Allied Health, we prioritise accuracy, timeliness, and clarity in all medicolegal reporting. We work collaboratively with legal teams and stakeholders, maintaining a high standard of professionalism while ensuring each assessment is thorough, defensible, and grounded in best practice. Our goal is to provide reports that are not only clinically sound, but also practical and clearly articulated for legal application.

Our Medicolegal Services

Explore our range of medicolegal services

    • Functional Capacity Assessments (FCA)

    • Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Assessments

    • Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Assessments

    • Work Capacity Assessments

    • Pre-injury vs current functioning analysis

    • Future care needs assessments

    • Domestic and community functioning assessments

    • Psychosocial functional assessments

    • Mental health impact assessments

    • Emotional regulation and capacity evaluation

    • Trauma-related functional impact reporting

    • Adjustment to injury assessments

    • Psychosocial disability reporting

    • Capacity for independence and community participation

    • Work capacity and return-to-work assessments

    • Job task analysis

    • Transferable skills assessments

    • Employability assessments

    • Vocational rehabilitation recommendations

    • Workplace functional assessments

    • Graduated return-to-work planning

    • Comprehensive medicolegal reports

    • Independent expert opinion reports

    • File reviews and clinical summaries

    • Progress reports for legal matters

    • Court-ready documentation

    • Response to legal questions / interrogatories

    • Permanent impairment functional commentary (scope dependent)

    • Occupational Therapy medicolegal assessments

    • Mental Health OT reports

    • Counselling / psychosocial input summaries

    • Dietitian functional impact reporting (if relevant)

    • Exercise physiology functional reporting (if relevant)