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Medicolegal Report Expert and Medical Claims Expert Witness Manchester

ABOUT

Mr Akiva Zev Lieberman

BSc (Hons) PgCert MCSP MAACP HCPC

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.

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

2025–present Locum First Contact Practitioner

                            NHS Primary Care (limited sessions)

2018–present Expert Witness – Clinical Negligence & Catastrophic Injury

                           Claimant, Defendant & Joint instructions

2013–present Medico-Legal Expert – Personal Injury

                           Soft tissue and complex injury reports

2011–present Director – Bridge Rehabilitation Services Ltd

                          Private physiotherapy practice, Manchester and West Yorkshire

2017–2025 Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner & First Contact Practitioner (NHS)

                         St Gabriel's Medical Centre, Prestwich

2011–2013 Lead Physiotherapist – Angel & Bowden Ltd

                        Award-winning Orthopaedic Pain Management Programme, NHS Trafford

REGISTRATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

Professional affiliations

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

2008–2011 · University of Salford

BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy

2017–2018 · University of Salford

PgCert Non Medical Prescribing

2016 · MEDCO

Accredited Independent Physiotherapy Expert Witness

​2017 · University of Central Lancashire

PgCert Injection Therapy

2021–2022 · University of Salford

PgCert First Contact Practice

2023 · Bond Solon

Courtroom Skills & Excellence in Report Writing

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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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