“Are the injuries consistent with the description of the incident?”
Oftentimes, lawsuits focus on product defects, premises liability, supervision issues, code or standards violations and many more without a thorough examination of the fundamental physical processes that are responsible for the injury, and whether the injury is consistent with first-hand accounts.
Biomechanics is the science that studies the external action of energy and forces acting on living bodies, especially the skeletal system. A Forensic Biomechanist is proficient at conducting biomechanical injury analysis investigations, describing the mechanism of injury, providing technical analysis and presenting it during litigation proceedings.
Simply put, biomechanics is a science that combines the principles of mechanical engineering and the study of the human body allowing the biomechanical expert to understand how muscles, tissues, tendons and bones will react to a given force. Consequently, this science gives forensics a tool to answer the question, "Is there a mechanism for injury in the claimed incident?"
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