Oct. 1, 2020

Symptom Irritability - It's Complex

Symptom Irritability - It's Complex

✅ Understanding symptom behavior is crucial to be…


✅ Understanding symptom behavior is crucial to being able to appropriately plan your examination and treatments. ✅ A big part of this is understanding the irritability of a symptom. Irritability has three components to make a judgement: 1️⃣ How easily is it provoked 2️⃣ How intense are the symptoms provoked 3️⃣ How much does it take to reduce symptoms back to baseline 🤔 Is irritability a measure of the tissue? 🤔 Are there more things than simple nociceptive messages into the system that influence a patient's reports?