ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of case studies, drawn from legal actions in the UK, in which employees sought redress from their employers for injuries allegedly sustained at work. In this first case study, the injury in question was diagnosed in both wrists. This second case study presents a shoulder injury. In this case, a claim for injury was raised on behalf of Miss Theresa Thatcher against her former employer, Fishy Business Co. Although the pain associated with lateral epicondylitis is focused primarily at the elbow, the muscles implicated in this disorder act principally at the wrist joint. In another interesting example, the injury in this case came on over a very short timescale, although not attributable to a one-off injury. The injury in question is commonly regarded as a repetitive or cumulative injury. In assessing the risk of tenosynovitis, the main emphasis must be on the tendons and other structures of the forearm directly involved.
