Biomechanics of Soft-Tissue Injury

Biomechanics of Soft-Tissue Injury by Mark A. Gomez provides attorneys and expert witnesses with a clear, step-by-step understanding of how soft-tissue injuries occur and how to reconstruct them from accident data. This 124-page hardcover covers injury mechanisms based on clinical literature, basic science, and experimental data — with figures, text, and real case examples.

• Author: Mark A. Gomez
• ISBN-10: 0-913875-50-3
• ISBN-13: 978-0-913875-50-6
• Copyright: February 12, 2001
• Pages: 124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Size: 8.5 x 11 inches

Six-Step Accidental Injury Analysis:

1. Description of the accident
2. Injury pattern defined
3. Define loading conditions that produce injury
4. Injury mechanism defined
5. Accident reconstruction
6. Accident data consolidation

Topics Include:

• Injury biomechanics defined — vehicle inspection, restraint systems, scene inspection
• Ligaments, tendons, and muscles — anatomy, biomechanical properties, and physiologic response to injury
• Cervical spine — compression, flexion, extension, and combined mechanisms
• Lumbar spine — intervertebral disc, posterior ligaments, and extensor muscles
• Shoulder — dislocation, rotator cuff tears, impingement, and glenoid labrum tears
• Knee — cruciate and collateral ligament tears, meniscal tears, and articular cartilage
• Case examples — cervical spine, rotator cuff, thoracic spine, lumbar disc herniation, and ACL rupture