The steps to diagnosing the cause of Pain:
You doctors will ask you following questions:
- your symptoms
- the intensity of your pain
- the location of your pain
- the history of your illness
- injury
- No Hurt
- Hurts Little Bit
- Hurts Little More
- Hurts Even More
- Hurts Whole Lot
- Hurts Worst
- depression
- anxiety
- substance abuse
For Additional Tests, your doctor may also need to do following steps:
• Blood tests
• Imaging studies (x-ray, CT, MRI, nuclear scans, ultrasound)
• Dye-injection studies such as a diskogram to identify painful disks in the spine or
myelogram to identify areas of spinal nerve compression
• Electromyography and nerve conduction studies to identify nerve abnormalities
Your doctor will also perform a physical examination, and may order blood tests or X-rays. Tests used to diagnose the cause of pain may include:
- CT or CAT scan:
- MRI:
- Discography:
- Myelograms:
- EMG:
- Bone scans:
- Ultrasound imaging:
