ELLIS CLINICOCCUPATIONAL & LEGAL MEDICINEOklahoma City, Oklahoma
MEDICAL EVIDENCE · CAUSATION · FUNCTION · IMPAIRMENT

Occupational & Legal Medicine

Some medical questions must do more than identify a diagnosis. They must explain causation, functional loss, work restrictions, impairment, prognosis, treatment needs, and how the medical evidence supports the physician's conclusions.

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THE WORK OF OCCUPATIONAL & LEGAL MEDICINE

Turning Medical Findings Into Understandable Medical Opinions

Ellis Clinic evaluates the medical issues that arise when an injury, disease, exposure, or disability must be explained within an administrative, employment, compensation, disability, or legal setting.

Medical Causation

Analysis of whether an event, exposure, injury, work activity, preexisting condition, or secondary process medically caused or aggravated a diagnosed condition.

Disability & Restrictions

Evaluation of the functional consequences of disease or injury and the work activities a patient can or cannot medically perform.

Permanent Impairment

Evaluation of permanent loss and impairment when the applicable system requires a physician to quantify or explain lasting functional loss.

Maximum Medical Improvement

Consideration of whether a condition has stabilized sufficiently for impairment or other long-term medical questions to be addressed.

Future Medical Needs

Medical reasoning regarding anticipated treatment, follow-up, restrictions, or other ongoing consequences of the condition.

Medical Record Review

Integration of history, examinations, diagnostic testing, operative records, treatment, specialist findings, and other pertinent evidence.

THE MEDICAL REASONING

A Conclusion Is Stronger When the Path to It Is Visible.

A useful medical opinion does not simply announce an answer. It identifies the important evidence, addresses relevant competing explanations, and explains how the physician reached the conclusion.

That approach is central to the work Ellis Clinic performs across disability and injury systems.

01HISTORYWhat happened, when symptoms began, and how the condition evolved.
02OBJECTIVE EVIDENCEExamination, imaging, testing, procedures, and documented findings.
03MEDICAL SCIENCEMechanism, anatomy, pathology, literature, and accepted medical principles when relevant.
04EXPLANATIONA reasoned connection between the evidence and the physician's opinion.
SYSTEMS ELLIS CLINIC WORKS WITH

Different Programs. Different Questions.

OWCP / FECA

Federal work injury, occupational disease, disability, causation, treatment, and Schedule Award questions.

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VA Disability

Service connection, secondary relationships, Nexus opinions, and disability evidence.

VA DISABILITY →

FERS / SSD

Medical disability, functional limitations, work capacity, and supporting physician evidence.

FERS →   SSD →

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