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MediVisuals, Inc. (“MediVisuals”), the industry leader in medical-legal visual demonstratives, announced today that legal industry veteran Stephen Cole has been named Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Cole brings over 25 years’ experience in legal services, having held various leadership positions in sales, strategy, marketing, and operations. Mr. Cole joins MediVisuals most recently from Epiq, where he was responsible…

By: Robert L. Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.® Opinions regarding what make graphics more or less effective are just like noses – everybody has one. For many years, “opinions” regarding specific characteristics of illustrations have been expressed as “fact” but often with no supporting empirical evidence. This has long been…

By: Robert L. Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.® Brain injuries are classified into two basic categories; those that are associated with obvious, incontestable evidence of intracranial injury and those that are not. Obvious intracranial injuries include those with evidence of pathology within the brain itself intraparenchymal injuries as well as…

By: Robert Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.®Long before science had advanced to allow imaging of the body in sectional views by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), medical illustrators were illustrating the body in sectional views because these views are the best way to appreciate some anatomical relationships.  Medical illustrators,…

By: Robert L. Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.® Computer-generated 3D reconstructions from a person’s actual CT or MRI data as well as medical illustrations are powerful tools that can be used separately to demonstrate a plaintiff’s injuries.  However, when used together, they complement each other in ways that greatly accentuate…

By: Robert L. Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.® A traumatic event causing injury to an intervertebral disc may also cause subtle injuries to the bones around the disc. During an extreme lateral flexion injury (shown in the image below), the edges of the bone are driven together, injuring both the…

By: Robert L. Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.® In determining if a person’s pain may be related to some sort of intervertebral disc pathology, a great deal of emphasis is placed upon imaging studies showing evidence of mechanical compression of a nerve root by abnormal posterior displacement of a disc…

By: Robert Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.® This blog is a follow-up referencing language and labels used by health professionals to describe various types of intervertebral disc pathology as defined by a 1995 joint undertaking by representatives from the North American Spine Society, American Society of Spine Radiology and American…

By: Robert Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.® The term “degenerated disc” is generally used to describe a disc in the early degenerative process. It is the beginning of a progressive break down of the disc. This condition can be initiated or accelerated by a traumatic event. A disc bulge is…

By: Robert Shepherd MS, Certified Medical Illustrator, President & CEO, MediVisuals Inc.® This blog is the third in a series referencing language and labels used by health professionals to describe intervertebral disc pathology as defined by a 1995 joint undertaking by representatives from the North American Spine Society, the American Society of Spine Radiology and…