Modal Pain Patient Tools
Free, evidence-based self-assessment tools built by Dr. Alex Movshis, MD, to help patients identify the most likely source of their pain before booking a consult. Each tool is educational — not a diagnosis — and is built around the clinical patterns Dr. Movshis uses in office.
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Post-Surgical Nerve Pain Self-Assessment
4–6 minutes. Built around: Hernia repair, C-section, Hysterectomy, Mastectomy, Laparoscopic abdominal.
A quick safety check, then eleven questions about your surgery and your pain pattern, including the validated DN4 neuropathic-pain screener. Names the peripheral nerve most likely behind chronic pain after hernia repair, C-section, hysterectomy, mastectomy, or laparoscopic abdominal surgery.
Best for: Patients with chronic pain past the 3-month post-operative window who have been told their workup is "negative."
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Peripheral Nerve Entrapment Self-Assessment
5 minutes. Built around: Occipital neuralgia, Cluneal entrapment, Meralgia paresthetica, Suprascapular, Wartenberg's, Notalgia paresthetica, Intercostal neuralgia, Deep gluteal.
A quick safety check, then eleven questions about where the pain sits, what it feels like, whether there is weakness, and which spot reproduces it — including the validated DN4 screener and a tender-point self-test. Names the nerve most likely trapped in patients who never had surgery: occipital neuralgia, cluneal entrapment, meralgia paresthetica, suprascapular entrapment, Wartenberg's syndrome, notalgia paresthetica, intercostal neuralgia, and deep gluteal / piriformis syndrome.
Best for: Patients with burning, itching, or shooting pain in a defined patch of skin, no surgical history in that area, and a workup — spine MRI, rotator cuff program, carpal tunnel study, dermatology creams — that came back normal.