BEC Biomechanical® Services

BEC Biomechanical® offers:

Biomechanical Analysis of Surveillance Video
           
BEC Biomechanical® offers expert, data-based conclusions from your surveillance video. The BEC Biomechanical® Hard Data Protocol (HDP®) process consolidates surveillance video to the important images that “tell the story” better than a lengthy report. The analysis is scientifically definitive and defensible.

Our HDP® process is factual, and objective. There are no “wishy/washy” or subjective opinions.

Our analysis substantially reduces reviewer time/expense by eliminating hours of needless videotape review. The reviewer gets a “picture worth a 1000 words.”

Key benefits:

• Takes subjectivity out of evaluation by providing quantitative information to explain an individual’s ability to perform work task/s
• Scientifically demonstrates the impact of an injury on work-related postures/positions
• Saves time and money by identifying high value images for quick/easy review by medical or legal professionals
• Turns surveillance tapes into evidence-based, scientific exhibit material and disability analysis make his expert testimony both definitive and understandable.
• Maximizes impact of surveillance expenditures

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Expert Witness Testimony/Preparation

Access to the expertise and experience of Dr. Becker, a recognized and acknowledged human performance authority, is the foundation for objective scientific opinion provided to clients.

BEC Biomechanical® experts have testified in Superior and Circuit courts in domestic USA jurisdictions, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Key benefits:

• Multi-jurisdiction experience has earned Dr. Becker classification as a
  “Credible Expert Witness.”
• Protocols developed by Dr. Becker produce scientifically-based evidence
  that holds up in court.
• Because all testimony is based on hard data, derived from video, his testimony
  is extremely difficult to dispute.
• Dr. Becker’s multiple degrees in the areas of human performance, biomechanics,
  rehabilitation, sports medicine, and disability analysis make his expert testimony
  both definitive and understandable.

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Energy Expenditure Analysis

When applicable the biomechanical motor skill events that are identified in the video surveillance are related to work physiology. This analysis includes a sample list of METs, metabolic expenditure equivalents (a standardized terminology of work physiology) related to the identified video surveillance body postures/positions, e.g., housework, carpentry, truck driving.

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Capacity Testing (FCE, FCA, PBPCE* and others)

Performance Based Physical Capacity Evaluation using the HDP® Protocol provides objective, accurate, and hard-data documentation to verify an individual’s biomechanical and physiological capabilities. This evaluation uses media technology that captures the individual’s actual body postures, which are then digitally produced as color figures and analyzed using biomechanical techniques.

*FCE = functional capacity evaluation;
FCA = functional capacity assessment;
PBPCE = performance based physical capacity evaluation

Our capacity testing:

• Compares and analzes data from impaired and normal performance
• Demonstrates postures or positions which could cause re-injury
• Analyzes body function over time to determine onset/extent of fatigue
• Meets criteria for scientific method of fact finding required in legal or
  administrative proceedings
• Validates body position/posture tolerances related to work or daily activity

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Capacity Testing Critique and Review

We offer a professional review and critique of FCE/FCA/PBPCE and can review material in any format, from any source. The protocol can be from a commercial vendor or a solo practitioner. Referrals for this service are typically trying to determine if the FCE examiner's opinions have a scientific foundation and if the data reported supports the conclusions provided.

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Forensic Evaluation of Movement and Biomechanical Events

This biomechanical service provides professional opinions on the causation of personal injury events, such as those in criminal cases (e.g., murder); workplace cases; injury cases, disability and impairment. These opinions are derived from review of documentation, from scientific laboratory testing, or from field-collected data.

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Re-Employment Strength/Performance Assessment

This BEC Biomechanical® service employs the HDP® protocols in both a biomechanical and capacity evaluation process to determine if an individual, injured or not, has the human performance tolerance to be considered a candidate for a specified work task, or employment criteria.

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Objective Data Comparison/Evaluation for FCE/PBPCE

First, this protocol can import all previous objective human performance data into the FCE/PBPCE process and do a statistical and comparative analysis for determination of the examinee's profile over time, ie. are they better, are they worse, or are they the same.

The second unique feature of this service is to provide an FCE/PBPCE a year after the first test has been conducted and then import and compare all of the report information, both narrative history and objective data collected. The process then provides a statistical and critical analysis of the differences and reveals the permanency of the impairments and disabilities of the examinee.

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Biomechanical Supplement (to job analysis; forensic vocational expert analysis)

This service is a visual supplement of the body postures and positions which are required of the identified work tasks in a job analysis. The representative posture/position figures are selected from a copyright database of all possible work- required biomechanical functions and are arranged by body section for the clearest possible quick review format. The biomechanical supplement will typically accompany a job analysis being presented to the various medical and vocational professionals providing service and intervention to the injured worker in anticipation of a return to work.

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