Medical-legal injury articles
Everything on this site, arranged the way a case actually unfolds.
These pages are written for attorneys rather than for patients. They assume you know the law and want the medicine underneath it, stated at the level the evidence actually supports.
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The medical-legal arguments
- The eggshell plaintiff
- “It was pre-existing degeneration”
- Causation and apportionment
- Reading an independent examination
- Records that survive cross
- Expert testimony
- Future care and life-care plans
Corroborating a subjective symptom
- Why objective findings matter
- Diagnostic nerve blocks
- EMG and nerve conduction
- Imaging and correlation
- Quantitative sensory testing
- Functional capacity
- Inflammatory and metabolic markers
- Effort and validity testing
The terrain
- What terrain means
- Metabolic dysfunction and injury
- The population numbers
- The chronic pain epidemic
- Central sensitization
- Why two patients differ
Orthobiologics
- PRP and BMAC
- A denial is a budgeting decision
- What the evidence actually says
- Dose and preparation
- Future care and damages
Injuries documented
- Whiplash and cervical injury
- Cervical radiculopathy
- Lumbar disc injury
- Sacroiliac joint injury
- CRPS / RSD
- Traumatic brain injury
- Post-traumatic headache
- After spine surgery
Common questions
Are these written for patients?
No. They are written for attorneys, and they state evidence at the level it sits rather than simplifying it.
Can these be cited?
The underlying sources can, and every page lists them with PubMed identifiers. Cite the source, not the page.
How current is this?
Sources are verified against PubMed at the time of writing, including retraction checks. Page review dates are on each page.
Is anything here legal advice?
No, and nothing here is medical advice either.
Related reading
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Sources
- Raja SN et al. The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises. Pain, 2020. PubMed 32694387
- Brinjikji W et al. Systematic literature review of imaging features of spinal degeneration in asymptomatic populations. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2015. PubMed 25430861
- O’Hearn M et al. Trends and disparities in cardiometabolic health among U.S. adults, 1999–2018. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2022. PubMed 35798448
- Rikard SM et al. Chronic pain among adults — United States, 2019–2021. MMWR, 2023. PubMed 37053114