Check your symptoms against the criteria.

Answer a few short questions to see how your symptoms line up with the criteria for neuroplastic pain and symptoms.1

  • Takes under 3 minutes
  • Based on established clinical criteria
  • Covers pain patterns, triggers, and history
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Have you tried several physical treatments and they have not reduced your symptoms?

Have doctors had difficulties finding an accurate cause or full explanation for your symptoms?

Did your pain or symptoms emerge around the time of a stressful period, life transition, or traumatic event?

Examples:

  • Some days your symptoms are more or less intense, without a clear physical reason
  • Over time, the intensity level of your symptoms has changed, without a clear physical reason

Do you have multiple pain areas or symptoms in different areas of your body?

Have your pain/symptoms spread or moved around to different body parts?

Do difficult emotions worsen your symptoms?

When you are relaxed or at-ease, do your pain/symptoms reduce?

Delayed onset: Do your pain or symptoms occur or worsen after you engaged in an activity?

Examples:

  • Symptoms increase later in the day or become worse in the following days

Does it feel like your nervous system is often in a reactive or high-stress state?

Do you experience emotional challenges with anxiety, anger, or depression?

Are you prone to perfectionism, high-control, people-pleasing, worrying, and/or obsessive thinking?

Are you prone to feeling low motivation, a lack of purpose, a sense of disconnection, and/or isolation?

Have you faced trauma or childhood adversity in your life?

Some examples could include:

  • Abuse in childhood or adulthood (physical, emotional, sexual)
  • Injuries or accidents
  • Life-threatening event
  • Being afraid of a family member
  • Neglect in childhood
  • High conflict in the family
  • Bullying

Have your chronic pain/symptoms caused distressing personal events or medical interactions?

Are you facing social danger now, or have you in the past?

Examples:

  • Poverty, bullying, community violence, abusive relationships, discrimination based on your race, culture, gender or sexual orientation.

Have your pain/symptoms led to you fearing your body is broken, abnormal, or unable to heal?

  1. Andersen, T.E., Ellegaard, H., Schiøttz-Christensen, B. et al. Somatic experiencing® for patients with low back pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder – protocol of a randomized controlled trial. BMC Complement Altern Med 18, 308 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-018-2370-y

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Note: This quiz is meant for educational purposes. For a formal diagnosis, we recommend an assessment by a physician specialized in this area of care. This quiz and your score are not medical advice.

we do not collect or store the answers.
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