General pain disability index questionnaire the rating scales below are designed to measure the degree to which several aspects of your life are presently disrupted by chronic pain. Lower leg left lower leg right jaw left jaw right chest abdomen neck upper back lower back none of these areas determining your widespread pain index wpi the wpi index score from part 1 is between 0 and 19. Discomfort index calculator high accuracy calculation. A multimodal approach that includes medications, nerve blocks, physical therapy, and other modalities should be considered for acute pain conditions.
View conditions for uploading files application of thoms thermal discomfort index. The discomfortindex in thessaloniki, greece springerlink. Neck disability index this questionnaire has been designed to give us information as to how your neck pain has affected your ability to manage in everyday life. Obviously all the formulas used to calculate the discomfort indexes produce theoretic average data which may be highly influenced by a lot of human and environmental factors such as. Because of my back pain, i go upstairs more slowly than usual. Traumatic brain injury tbi instruments user manual version 5.
Pdf analysis of the summer discomfort index in athens, greece. The first page of the pdf of this article appears above. You can reduce the time required to search a long pdf by embedding an index of the words in the document. Because of back pain, i am more irritable and bad tempered with people than usual. In this paper, for the same purpose, we make use of the discomfort index di.
Calculates the discomfort index from temperature and humidity. New clinical fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria part 1. Assessing thermal risk in urban areas an application for the. Lst, evaluating the intensity of surface urban heat island suhi and the variation of the discomfort index di, the latter reflecting the most common. In other words, we would like to know how much your pain is preventing you from doing what you would normally do, or from doing it as well as you normally would. Vertical and horizontal scroll bars appear to the right and bottom of the document pane whenever the view does not show the entire document. To view other pages or different areas of the page, click the arrows or drag.
Acrobat can search the index much faster than it can search the document. Pdf application of thoms thermal discomfort index in khartoum. Please answer every section and mark in each section only the one box that applies to you. The embedded index is included in distributed or shared copies of the pdf. Abstract the discomfort index di proposed by thom is calculated for the summer period in athens. Acute pain can be caused by a variety of conditions, such as trauma, burn, musculoskeletal injury, and neural injury, as well as pain from surgeryprocedures in the perioperative period. The mean daily and hourly variations of the di are given and.
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