Have you had ongoing persistent pain that hasn’t responded to medical treatment?

Have you had an accident or injury, and the pain has lingered on well after the normal healing time?

Does your pain move to various parts of the body? E.g. Does it move up or down the leg? Does it migrate to the other side? 

Does your pain increase when thinking about doing a certain activity or movement?

Did your symptoms begin without a physical cause (injury/trauma to the body)?

Does your pain increase when you are under greater stress or in anticipation of a stressful event?

Have you had multiple different symptoms over the course of your lifetime?

Does your pain improve for short periods of time with treatment such as massage, physiotherapy, chiropractic, reiki, supplements etc?

Does your MRI show normal abnormalities such as disc bulge, disc degeneration, herniation, stenosis?  

Are your symptoms in a distribution pattern that is symmetric?  

Have your symptoms spread over time to different parts of the body?

Do you have symptoms that occur in many different body parts at the same time?

Do your symptoms shift from one body part to another?

Do your symptoms have a tingling, electric, burning, numb, hot or cold qualities?

Do your symptoms occur after, but not during an activity or exercise?  

Do your symptoms decrease or disappear when you are engaged in joyful or distracting activities?

Are your symptoms triggered by things not related to your actual trigger Eg foods, smells, sound, light, computer screens, changes in the weather?

Do you catastrophise about your symptoms and will you do anything to make them go away?

Are you frequently frustrated by the pain? Do you try to fix it, fight it, figure it out?