QB-2022-000824 - [2025] EWHC 1610 (KB)

The Claimant seeks £18,195.72 for abdominal massage at £65 per session once every 3 weeks, from now until her pelvic clearance operation at age 51.

I do not consider that this claim is reasonable or recoverable. She says that she had 4 sessions from August 2022 and that she stopped them, although they were helpful, because her partner was paying for them and he ceased to do so when they split up. Despite that, as the First Defendant notes in its counter-schedule, the Claimant’s pelvic pains do not prevent her from working, looking after her son, and remaining independent with all her day to day care and household needs, they do not stop her from engaging in regular and strenuous HIIT and cardio exercise classes, and the gynaecology expert evidence does not support any abdominal massage. I do not consider that she has proven any medical benefit, and I consider that if they provided her with any material wellbeing benefit she would have paid for such massages even after her partner ceased paying for them, as she has paid for exercise classes. I make no award for future therapies.