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Editorial
. 2017 May;475(5):1344-1346.
doi: 10.1007/s11999-017-5304-y. Epub 2017 Mar 13.

Pearls: Patient-generated Pain Drawings

Mark D Brown  1
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Editorial

Pearls: Patient-generated Pain Drawings

Mark D Brown. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2017 May.
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Fig. 1
This figure shows a composite pain drawing from several actual patient-generated pain drawings. If this was a patient’s actual pain drawing, a physician would likely suspect right carpel tunnel syndrome, lower extremity neurogenic claudication from lumbar spinal stenosis, vascular claudication from peripheral vascular disease, left hip disease, right L5 radiculopathy, and peripheral neuropathy. Patients with multiple comorbidities will present with pain drawings similar to this. The color coding helps distinguish the symbols, such as red for burning and blue for aching, as seen in this example.
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