What you tell your doctor immediately after your work injury is vitally important.
In Illinois, the Workers’ Compensation Arbitrator places a great deal of weight on what the medical records contain regarding the cause of your injury. This is often called a history of accident. If you do not tell the doctor what happened to you at work when you were hurt, the Arbitrator may decide against you. Of course, timely accident reports and witnesses may overcome this but the history is still important.
The theory is that the immediacy of your statements will be closer to the truth then statements that occur much later in time.
Remember, what you tell your doctors is very crucial to your Workers’ Compensation case.