The Objective Injury Model: A New Attorney Guide to Objective Documentation in Motor Vehicle Injury Cases

The Objective Injury Model Is Now Available

A new clinical reference for Rhode Island plaintiff personal injury attorneys handling motor vehicle accident cases

Cityside Chiropractic is pleased to announce the release of The Objective Injury Model: A Plaintiff Attorney's Guide to Objective Documentation in Motor Vehicle Injury Cases — a practical hardcover reference written specifically for plaintiff personal injury attorneys who evaluate medical records, injury documentation, and clinical findings in active motor vehicle accident cases.

Cover of "The Objective Injury Model" by Dr. Mark Mulak, serving as a comprehensive guide for plaintiff attorneys in documenting motor vehicle injury cases.

The book distills more than twenty years of clinical experience treating motor vehicle injury patients in the personal injury setting into a structured, attorney-focused documentation framework. It is written in plain language, grounded in peer-reviewed clinical methodology, and designed to be immediately useful in the day-to-day evaluation of MVA injury cases.

Why Objective Documentation Matters in Motor Vehicle Injury Cases

Motor vehicle injury cases frequently involve patients whose symptoms are real and whose functional impairment is measurable — but whose standard imaging appears normal. A normal MRI does not mean no injury occurred. It means no injury was visible under the conditions standard emergency imaging is designed to detect.

This documentation gap is one of the most significant challenges in personal injury litigation. When the clinical record contains only subjective complaints and a general soft-tissue diagnosis, the defense has room to minimize, delay, and discount the claim. When the record contains objective, instrumented findings supported by normative comparisons, the evidentiary picture changes.

The Objective Injury Model was written to address that gap — explaining how objective clinical testing can identify measurable injury findings and how those findings translate into clear, defensible medical documentation.

What the Book Covers

The Objective Injury Model outlines the objective testing technologies used at Cityside Chiropractic to document motor vehicle injury findings, including:

Computerized oculomotor screening — identifying measurable deficits in eye tracking, fixation stability, and reaction time consistent with concussion and post-concussive syndrome

Force-plate balance testing — documenting vestibular dysfunction and cervicogenic balance impairment with percentile scores compared against validated normative data

Stress radiography with computerized motion analysis — measuring cervical ligamentous instability and identifying findings that meet AMA Guides criteria for impairment rating

Diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound — providing contemporaneous imaging of soft tissue pathology with a clear temporal relationship to the collision

Computerized neurocognitive screening — documenting post-concussive cognitive impairment across attention, processing speed, and executive function domains

The book also covers the forensic narrative report framework, compliance-centered documentation practices, gaps in care, defense IME rebuttal, and the practical application of objective documentation in personal injury litigation.

Who This Book Is Written For

The Objective Injury Model was written specifically for plaintiff personal injury attorneys — whether early in practice or after decades of experience handling motor vehicle accident cases. It is not a clinical textbook. It is a practical reference designed to help attorneys understand what complete objective documentation looks like, identify gaps in the records they receive, and build provider relationships that consistently produce well-documented injury evidence.

For attorneys practicing Rhode Island personal injury law, the guide is directly relevant — it reflects the clinical documentation approach used every day at Cityside Chiropractic, a practice focused exclusively on motor vehicle injury evaluation and treatment in Providence and Cranston, Rhode Island.

Hardcover Copies Available Beginning June 2026

Hardcover copies of The Objective Injury Model will be distributed to Rhode Island plaintiff attorneys beginning in June 2026. Attorneys handling motor vehicle accident cases in Rhode Island who would like to receive a copy are welcome to contact Cityside Chiropractic directly to submit a request.

About the Author

Dr. Mark Mulak, DC, DACBSP®, DACRB, RMSK®, ICSC is the founder of Cityside Chiropractic, a personal injury and motor vehicle accident chiropractic practice with locations in Providence and Cranston, Rhode Island. He has practiced exclusively in the personal injury and motor vehicle accident setting for more than twenty years, serves as Rhode Island State Delegate to the American Chiropractic Association, and holds expert witness and forensic documentation qualifications. The Objective Injury Model is his first book.

About Cityside Chiropractic

Cityside Chiropractic serves motor vehicle injury patients in Providence and Cranston, Rhode Island, with a clinical focus on objective injury evaluation, treatment, and documentation. Both locations offer the full suite of objective testing technologies described in The Objective Injury Model — RightEye oculomotor screening, BTrackS balance assessment, PostureRay CRMA stress radiography, RMSK diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound, and CNS Vital Signs neurocognitive screening.

480 Broadway, Providence, RI 02909 900 Reservoir Avenue, Cranston, RI 02910 (401) 272-5710 citysidechiropractic.com