Chronic Pain: Locations, Symptoms & Causes
This Web Site (masterdocs.com) deals with information on the locations and symptoms of chronic pain. If you have chronic pain (lasting more than 30 days) you may care to follow the instructions below and email the results to masterdocs@hotmail.com. We do not provide medical advice on your pain, but will send you a return email with the diagnoses given by pain specialists (physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of painful conditions) for people with pain like yours; we will also provide you with Web Sites where you can read up on those conditions. However, please realize that a reliable diagnosis can only be obtained by contacting your own doctor. The Investigator for this study is Colin R. Taylor, M.D. who may be contacted c/o TMT Inc., 196 E 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA. Please note that your identity and email address will be kept confidential and not provided to any outside parties. You will receive no unsolicited contacts of any type. Group data but not data on an individual person may be published in a medical journal. Enrollment will begin in May 2004 and is expected to be complete in 6 months. When enrollment is complete, a notice will be placed on the masterdocs.com Web Site to that effect.

Question 1: How long have you had chronic pain?

Question 2: Do you have pain in a) only 1 area of the body, or b) more than 1 area of the body - i.e., in 2 or more separate areas with a non-painful area in between? (Select a or b).

Question 3: Which of the following areas are painful: a) head, b) lower back, c) knee, d) shoulder, e) hip, f) foot, g) back of leg, h) other area? (Select all that apply)

Question 4: In which part of the body is the pain most troublesome (Select one only from a-h above)?

Question 5: Is this most troublesome pain best described as a) sharp, dull, aching or stabbing, b) numb, pins & needles, burning, or like electric shocks, or c) neither a or b? (Select a, b or c).

Question 6: Do you have pain ABOVE THE KNEE in the colored sciatica leg areas to the right (you can have pain in the colored areas at or below the knee, but to select a color you must also have pain for that color above the knee): a) green, b) red, c) blue? (Select all that apply).

Question 7: (Optional Information – If you can’t provide it all, don’t worry – just send the responses to Questions 1-6 and anything you want to provide for Question 7. A sample email response is shown below). Please provide your Age, Sex, and the State you live in. If you wish, add up to 6 lines of additional information about your pain. Save the picture of the whole human body on the right to your hard disk (right click on the picture with your mouse, and select "Save Picture As"). Then print out the picture, draw an outline of each of your painful areas, and put an "X" inside each painful area to indicate where your pain is worst. Please mail your drawing together with a copy of the email you send us to: Chronic Pain, TMT Inc., 196 E 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA (or you can scan the image into your computer, save it as a JPG file and attach it to your email response sent to masterdocs@hotmail.com). The information on the drawing will allow us to more accurately match up your pain with the pain specialist diagnoses.

 

SAMPLE EMAIL RESPONSE: 

To: masterdocs@hotmail.com 

Subject: Chronic Pain

Text:

Question 1:  2.5 years

Question 2:  b

Question 3:  b, g

Question 4:  g

Question 5:  b

Question 6:  b

Question 7:  55, Male, Iowa

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WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PAIN?
 
 

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