Translating Medical Imaging into Jury-Friendly Illustrations

According to recent data published by the National Library of Medicine, around 65% of the population are visual learners. Those are people who learn best when they see information presented to them in visual form. Visuals can include everything from drawings to animations to annotated illustrations.

If that study holds true, it could mean that your next jury will have upwards of 10 members who are visual learners. That is why incorporating jury-friendly illustrations is vital to prevailing in your case.

Although your client’s testimony about the pain and suffering they’ve endured because of an accident will be crucial, you also need strong and compelling evidence to back up those claims. Advocacy Digital Media is at the forefront of providing attorneys with the exact type of jury-friendly illustrations that can enhance and break down what is revealed in medical imaging results.

This is how to demonstrate to those visual learners in your jury what happened to your client.

Offering Objective Proof of Injuries

There is a record for every patient. Those records are based on information that is input into a computer system by the doctor or their assistant. In other words, the detail and thoroughness of those reports will only be as good as the people creating them.

Medical reports can also be disputed. On the other hand, medical animations of imaging scans offer clear and irrefutable evidence about a particular condition or injury.

Consider the simple broken leg. An X-ray can clearly show where a break in a bone happened and how severe that fracture might be.  That X-ray can also show the fracture when it has healed or any residual health complications. The medical imaging doesn’t stop at X-rays.

As the Cleveland Clinic explains, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, “is a painless test that produces very clear images of the organs and structures inside your body.” MRIs can reveal and pinpoint soft tissue damage, such as ligament tears or herniated discs. The talented graphic artists at Advocacy Digital Media can transform an MRI image into a compelling animation, illustrating the before and aftereffects of the injury incident.

These animations can also show the progression of an injury and all the resulting complications in the rest of the body and can eliminate doubt about the case you’re presenting.

How Do Courtroom Demonstratives Support Expert Testimony?

As compelling as your courtroom demonstratives will be on their own, you still need to explain what they mean. That happens when your expert witness takes the stand.

Medical imaging illustrations provide backup for any radiologists, forensic specialists, and accident reconstruction experts you might call to testify. Your medical imaging illustrations can play alongside their testimony to accurately convey to the jury the cause and severity of an injury caused by the defendant.

The medical imaging illustrations provided by Advocacy Digital Media can include annotations that highlight critical damage areas. That will help make complex medical details more palatable for your jury. Your medical image illustrations also provide credibility to your witness.

No matter what the defense attorneys might try to dispute, it is hard to dissuade a jury when they are presented with a visual representation of what really happened.

A Boost for Your Settlement Negotiations

As you begin to formulate your case strategy, you’ll find that the jury-friendly illustrations provided by Advocacy Digital Media will become the cornerstone of your presentation. They will help verify medical reports and present strong challenges to counter opposing claims.

Before presenting your visual evidence to the jury, it must be approved by the judge. Because you’re relying on MRIs, CT scans, and X-rays, it will be hard to suppress those facts. You’ll also have to share those facts with the defense counsel. When presented with the same evidence you’re going to share with a jury, you might find that the opposing counsel becomes more motivated to settle.

That could lead to a pre-trial settlement that is favorable to your client’s interests. That makes your medical imaging illustrations an astute investment.

Personal Injury Cases That Benefit from Medical Imaging Illustrations

Many types of personal injury cases can benefit from medical imaging illustrations. Consider the following:

Car Accidents

Injuries sustained in a car crash are not immediately visible. The pain is present, but the cause can only be revealed through medical imaging. X-rays will detect fractures and broken bones. MRIs can reveal soft tissue damage and whiplash. CT scans help identify concussions and traumatic brain injuries. The Advocacy Digital Media team can utilize all of those images for your jury presentation.

Slip-and-Fall Cases

Bad falls can lead to a variety of devastating injuries, such as spinal cord injuries, concussions, and internal bleeding. Those will all be confirmed with medical imaging, and that can strengthen your liability claims.

Medical Malpractice Cases

Medical malpractice cases are inherently complex. They often involve misdiagnoses, surgical errors, or delayed treatments. The medical imaging Advocacy Digital Media creates can allow you to compare before-and-after scans that clearly point to mistakes. They can also confirm a misdiagnosis by highlighting what the medical profession “missed.”

Workers’ Compensation Cases

In workplace injury cases, ongoing medical imaging can track the injury progression suffered by your client. That will help support their disability claims and demonstrate the challenges they might have with returning to work.

Get Started on Your Medical Imaging Illustrations Today

Advocacy Digital Media is standing by to provide a wide range of jury-friendly illustrations, all in service to the needs of your case. We will work closely with your legal team and expert witnesses to create the type of animations and illustrations that best suit your case strategy. It is essential to get started on those illustrations as soon as possible so that they can be thoroughly vetted and submitted as evidence.

Call to discuss your case today.