Advanced Biomechanics Expertise for Navigating Litigation, Risk, and Product-Related Matters

Biomechanics applies established principles of mechanics to evaluate the motions, loads, and associated physical demands placed on the human body during real-world activities and events. Secretariat’s team of biomechanics experts integrates advanced methodologies and analytics to analyze matters involving suspected or alleged injury, product use or misuse, workplace or recreational incidents, and other relevant scenarios in which understanding what happened—and whether a claimed injury is mechanically plausible—requires more than just qualitative observation. 

Our Comprehensive Biomechanics Capabilities

Secretariat’s biomechanics experts bring significant experience advising on high-stakes product- and injury- related matters in litigation and non-litigation contexts. We maintain the highest standards of quality and scientific rigor in our work, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies and techniques to quantify and interpret user-product interactions within both systematically controlled laboratory and real-world settings. Through this innovative approach, we can confidently examine plausible injury mechanisms, determine causation, and further answer critical questions about product design, performance, safety, and risk.

Our biomechanics experts bring extensive experience advising on matters across topics and industries, such as:

• Sports, fitness, and playground equipment 
• Machine operator injuries 
• Micromobility 
• Ergonomics 
• Product, equipment, and machinery design and development roadmaps

We often work closely with our Human Factors and Mechanical Engineering colleagues to more effectively examine product and equipment design, safety, and usability factors, and how these may impact use-misuse claims and associated risk. Our professionals frequently provide expert witness support for insurance claims and litigation in state court, federal court, and arbitration settings. We offer robust, defensible findings grounded in measurable human-product interactions rather than theoretical interpretation alone. 

Secretariat’s insights can also be applied proactively to inform design and development, safety, and risk mitigation strategies for a broad range of products and equipment. Specifically, our state-of-the-art approach affords data-driven insights into key design factors based on real-world testing and evaluation.

We provide support in many areas, including: 

• Injury claims, feasibility, and causality
• Product design and development advising, testing and evaluation, and standardized reporting
• Product safety assessments and product-centric risk mitigation strategies
• Real-world biomechanical assessments through novel technology-driven approaches and supporting analytics capabilities

Key Experts

All Biomechanics Experts