This experiment showed that the pattern of whip marks could only be reproduced with whipping administered from the front. The victim's arms would have had to have been secured out sideways as shown in this photograph.
How the victim would have to be held during the whipping which was administered from the front to reproduce the pattern of scrouge marks.
The other injuries, ie the contusions to the knees and the possible strained shoulder could easily have been caused by use of a standard technique of the Inquisition which was to tie the victim's arms behind him and then use the rope thrown over a beam to haul the victim into the air as shown in this reconstruction.
How the victim could have been hauled off his feet using a rope over a beam.
The next step was to let the victim drop to the floor by simply releasing the rope.
How the victim would have landed after being dropped by releasing the rope.
This type of treatment could have caused the damage to the knee. Our previous experiments have suggested that mis-alignment of the right shoulder could have simply been a perspective distortion caused by the use of a soft underlay and may not have been necessarily have been the result of a dislocation.