Dean Biomechanics is lead by our Principal Engineer, Keith Stolworthy, Ph.D., P.E..  We provide years of experience from analyzing thousands of accidents as an expert witness and offering engineering design and analysis services.

 

Dr. Stolworthy understands and studies the mechanical performance of biological tissue (i.e., how the body moves and breaks) and applies this in the analysis of injury-causing events and the design of biomechanical devices. He has served as an expert witness on hundreds of cases involving vehicle accidents (including front, rear, and side-collisions; roll-overs, occupant ejections; and motorcycle crashes); slip, trips, and falls; projectiles and falling objects; workplace accidents; and other injury-causing events. He has designed, built, and programmed devices for the treatment and research/evaluation of diagnosed injuries/conditions. Dr. Stolworthy has taught engineering principles of statics, mechanics, materials, and dynamics; designed and built patented technology for a robotic foot-orthotic device; created a robotic spinal-motion simulator and published research regarding spine biomechanics; tested and designed orthopedic medical devices; and pioneered the large-animal alpaca model for studying human low back pain. Dr. Stolworthy regularly works with other engineers, medical doctors, veterinarians, and clinicians, of various disciplines, as he continues with research, design, and development of new conservative- and surgical-treatment technologies; he has publications in top biomedical journals and presented at various conferences addressing basic and applied orthopedics; and he also serves as a technical reviewer for multiple biomechanical-specific journals.

Dr. Stolworthy received bachelor's, master's, and doctor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering (with an emphasis on product design, mechanical analysis, orthopedic biomechanics, and entrepreneurship) from Brigham Young University. In addition to his professional and educational experience, Dr. Stolworthy has years of knowledge with rigid medical equipment (e.g., wheelchairs, orthotic braces, and crutches/canes/walkers), and physical and occupational therapy, due to his personal experience with learning to walk again with chronic paralysis. Dr. Stolworthy has researched exoskeleton design and emerging technologies in biomechanics as a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Stolworthy continues applying and growing his knowledge of human biomechanics and mechanical engineering principles as he provides consulting services for medical device design and offers expert testimony for injury causation, product design, and mechanical failure analysis.

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