# Find prior injuries and check the mechanism across visits > Use the Pre-existing Condition Analysis, filters, search and Q&A in Medrecords AI to find earlier injuries and compare each account of the injury. Canonical page: https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/personal-injury/analysis/ --- New — **Missing Records Detection:** flags every visit, provider, and date missing from the file. [See how →](https://medrecords.ai/product/missing-records-identification/) [Home](https://medrecords.ai/) ›[Help](https://medrecords.ai/help/) ›[Personal injury](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/personal-injury/) › — Find prior injuries and check the mechanism across visits MEDRECORDS AI HELP ## Find prior injuries and check the mechanism across visits Medrecords AI finds prior injuries in 2 ways. The Pre-existing Condition Analysis report lists earlier care to the same body parts, with cites. The timeline, filters and search let you check it yourself. To check the mechanism, which is how the injury happened, compare each record's account with search and Q&A. Last checked 2026-10-24 — ·Written by Ahmed Jemaa **Help center contents26 articles** Start here - [Choose the right case type](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/choose-case-type/) - [Which files can you upload?](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/file-types-limits/) - [Confirm the case details, key date and focus](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/confirm-case/) - [Fix a failed upload or a stuck case](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/troubleshooting/) Work with the records - [Read the medical chronology](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/chronology/) - [Check any fact against its source page](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/verify-source/) - [Search your records with exact text or keywords](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/search/) - [Filter and group the documents index](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/documents-index/) - [Add flags, highlights and notes to records](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/annotations/) - [How duplicate pages are found and removed](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/deduplication/) - [Work through the missing records list](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/missing-records/) - [Add records to an existing case](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/add-records-later/) Write and share - [Edit the chronological narrative](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/narrative/) - [Create a report in Report Studio](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/report-studio/) - [Set up report templates](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/templates/) - [Export your work](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/export/) Account and trust - [Set your role](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/roles/) - [Is Medrecords AI HIPAA compliant, and who can see my cases?](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/security-hipaa/) - [How accurate is Medrecords AI, and what are its limits?](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/accuracy-limits/) - [Glossary of terms](https://medrecords.ai/help/glossary/) Case type playbooks - [Work a birth injury case](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/birth-injury/) - [Work a nursing home neglect case](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/nursing-home/) - [Work a VA disability case](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/va-disability/) - [Work a mass tort case](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/mass-tort/) - [Work a medical malpractice case](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/medical-malpractice/) - [Work a personal injury or car crash case](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/personal-injury/) [See every topic on the help center home](https://medrecords.ai/help/) ### Why these 2 checks matter The other side will ask 2 things. Was this body part hurt before? Does the story of the injury stay the same from visit to visit? You want to know the answers first, from the records. ### Find prior injuries with the report 1. Open Report Studio and press **New report** . 2. Pick the case and the **Pre-existing Condition Analysis** report type. 3. Press **Generate** . A new report costs 100 credits, with 1 verification run. The report has these sections: | Section | What it covers | | --- | --- | | Records Reviewed | The records used | | The Regions and Conditions at Issue | The body parts and conditions in the claim | | Documented Pre-incident Treatment | Care before the date of injury | | Pre-incident Baseline | How the person was before | | Post-incident Change | What changed after | | Degenerative and Age-related Findings | Wear and tear the records name | | Intervening Events | Other events after the injury, such as a new fall | | Provider Statements on Apportionment or Aggravation | What doctors wrote about old versus new harm | Apportionment means splitting harm between an old cause and a new 1. Aggravation means the injury made an old problem worse. The report quotes what providers wrote. It does not decide either question. ### Find prior injuries by hand 1. On the **Timeline** , press **Filters** . Pick a body part from the claim. 2. Set a date range that ends the day before the date of injury. 3. Read what is left. These are the earlier records for that body part. 4. Make a flag called "Pre-existing" and put it on each page you want to keep. See [add flags, highlights and notes](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/annotations/). Then search with **Keywords** : "prior", "history of", "chronic", "degenerative" and "previous accident". Each keyword gets its own colour. Ask in the **Q&A** pane too. Type in the box "Ask about this case": "List all care to the neck before the date of injury, with dates and page cites." Change the body part to fit your case. ### Check the mechanism across visits The mechanism is how the injury happened. Each record may tell it a bit differently. The ER note may say 1 thing and the therapy intake another. 1. Search with **Keywords** for words from the account, such as "rear-ended", "slipped", "tripped" or "bitten". 2. Open each hit and read the account. 3. In the **Q&A** pane, type in the box "Ask about this case": "Set out each account of how the injury happened, with the date, the provider and the page." 4. Add a note where accounts differ. On an MVA case, Q&A is set up to put differing accounts of the crash side by side. It states the gap between the crash and the first visit, with both dates. It quotes imaging words such as "degenerative" or "no acute finding" exactly. It never treats car damage as proof of injury. ### The Mechanism-of-Injury Consistency Analysis MVA cases can also make this report. Its sections are: - The Mechanism as Documented - Injuries Claimed and When Each Was First Documented - First Care and Early Findings - Course and Gaps - Prior Conditions and Prior Accidents - Imaging Qualifiers and Provider Statements - Consistencies and Inconsistencies the Records Show It reports what the records show. It does not say who was at fault or whether the crash caused the injury. See [prepare a damages summary and a demand narrative](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/personal-injury/reports/) for the other reports. Our [bodily injury claims page](https://medrecords.ai/solutions/bodily-injury-claims/) covers how claims teams use these checks. Medrecords AI organizes and cites the records. Its output is not a medical or legal opinion and does not replace your expert. ### Related help - [Review a personal injury case in Medrecords AI](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/personal-injury/) - [Find gaps in treatment](https://medrecords.ai/help/case-types/personal-injury/missing/) - [Search your records](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/search/) - [Check any fact against its source page](https://medrecords.ai/help/tasks/verify-source/) Facts checked against the Medrecords AI app code on 2026-10-24. ### Try it on a real file Upload a case and see the page count and cost before you confirm. [Book a demo](https://medrecords.ai/demo/)