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Medicolegal Report Expert and Medical Claims Expert Witness Manchester

ABOUT​

Mr Akiva Zev Lieberman

BSc (Hons) PgCert MCSP MAACP HCPC

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Chartered Physiotherapist and Expert Witness · Member of the Medicolegal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists · MEDCO Accredited · Bond Solon Trained

HCPC Registered

MCSP

MEDCO accredited

Bond Solon Trained

CPR Part 35

Clinical experience

15 years

Medicolegal experience

Since 2014

Avg. reports per year

50

Instructions accepted

Claimant, Defendant & Joint

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

15 years of specialist experience in neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy​

 

Mr Akiva Lieberman is a chartered physiotherapist with 15 years of practice across NHS primary care and private settings, specialising in neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy. He is the founder and Director of Bridge Rehabilitation Services Ltd and has held Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner roles in NHS primary care, including independent prescribing and first contact practice.

 

MEDCO accredited as an independent physiotherapy expert witness since 2016, Akiva has produced several hundred expert witness reports across a wide range of personal injury and complex injury types. His clinical negligence experience — commenced in 2018 — includes quantum reports for catastrophic injury cases and pre-trial conferences with counsel. He accepts instructions from claimant, defendant, and joint-instruction solicitors.

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In addition to his medicolegal practice, Akiva served as physiotherapist for the Team GB Junior Futsal Squad at the European Maccabi Games (2019) and as Lead Physiotherapist for Team GB at the Maccabiah Games (2022).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS​

Key positions held

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2025–present 

Locum First Contact Practitioner 

NHS Primary Care (limited sessions)

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2018–present 

Expert Witness – Clinical Negligence & Catastrophic Injury                            

Claimant, Defendant & Joint instructions

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2013–present 

Medico-Legal Expert – Personal Injury                            

Soft tissue and complex injury reports

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2011–present 

Director – Bridge Rehabilitation Services Ltd

Private physiotherapy practice, Manchester and West Yorkshire

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2017–2025 

Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner & First Contact Practitioner (NHS)

St Gabriel's Medical Centre, Prestwich

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2011–2013 

Lead Physiotherapist – Angel & Bowden Ltd                        

Award-winning Orthopaedic Pain Management Programme, NHS Trafford​​

REGISTRATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

Professional affiliations

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✓ HCPC registered

✓ Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (MCSP)

✓ Medico-Legal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MLACP)

✓ Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPN)

✓ British Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Limb AbsenceRehabilitation (BACPAR)

✓ Society of Musculoskeletal Medicine (SOMM)

✓ Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MAACP)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Academic qualifications and specialist training

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2008–2011 · University of Salford

BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy

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2017–2018 · University of Salford

PgCert Non Medical Prescribing

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2016 · MEDCO

Accredited Independent Physiotherapy Expert Witness

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​2017 · University of Central Lancashire

PgCert Injection Therapy

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2021–2022 · University of Salford

PgCert First Contact Practice

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2023 · Bond Solon

Courtroom Skills & Excellence in Report Writing

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Instruct Akiva on your case

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Akiva Lieberman BSc (Hons) MCSP HCPC
akiva@bridge-rehab.co
.uk · 0161 870 6559  ·  Emma (secretary): info@bridge-rehab.co.uk

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