Independent Medical Consulting for Complex Pain & Injury Cases

Independent physician consultant providing medical analysis, causation evaluation, diagnostic consultation, expert witness services, and litigation support in complex pain, injury, impairment, and treatment-related cases.

Triple Board-Certified Physician • California QME • Expert Witness • Pain Medicine Specialist
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Why Attorneys Retain Dr. Brian Bernhardt

Complex injury and pain cases often involve conflicting opinions, persistent symptoms, diagnostic uncertainty, or treatment questions that are difficult to resolve through records alone.

Dr. Brian Bernhardt provides independent physician-performed medical analysis grounded in clinical experience, diagnostic precision, and evidence-based reasoning.

Complex Diagnostic Cases

Chronic pain, CRPS, neurologic symptoms, disputed diagnoses, unexplained findings, and failed treatment cases.

Advanced Interventional Pain Expertise

More than two decades evaluating and treating complex spine, nerve, musculoskeletal, and chronic pain conditions.

Independent Medical Analysis

Medical record review, causation analysis, impairment assessment, and objective physician-performed evaluation.

Direct Physician Involvement

Every consultation, record review, report, and expert opinion is personally performed by Dr. Bernhardt

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Areas of Practice

Dr. Bernhardt provides independent medical analysis, evaluation, and consulting services across a broad range of medico-legal matters involving pain, injury, impairment, causation, and treatment-related questions

Qualified Medical Evaluations (QME)

Expert Witness & Litigation Support

Independent Medical Examinations (IME)

Personal Injury & Complex Pain Cases

Mass Tort & Product Liability

Medical Record & Imaging Review

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Representative Case Types

 Disputed Diagnosis & Causation

Spine & Radiculopathy

 Personal Injury & Complex Pain

 Catastrophic Injury & Future Care

 Chronic Post-Surgical Pain

 Peripheral Nerve Injury

 Mass Tort & Product Liability

 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

 Medical Record & Imaging Review