If your medical expert is still relying on “patient-reported pain” alone for low-speed impacts, you’re leaving your defense vulnerable.
A landmark study compared 515,000 real-world crashes to 1,984 volunteer laboratory impacts. The results were definitive: Volunteer studies DO NOT under-report symptoms. Symptom rates are nearly identical between labs and the real world. Structural injury risk at low Delta-V is statistically negligible.
Why this matters for your caseload: Most “Big Box” review firms miss the nuance of how impact severity relates to objective medical findings. We don’t. Our specialists (Ortho/Neuro/Rad) use this specific literature to differentiate between “muscle strain” and “structural damage.”