COMPLETE A DRAWING OF YOUR MOVEMENT DYSFUNCTION.
By now you will have become clear from the self assessment, what region of your body requires physical assessment.
Here is how to select the physical assessment forms that are applicable to your pain assessment.
Select which coloured area(s) on the images best displays the distribution of your pain.
IMPORTANT: When your symptoms cover more than one coloured area, this indicates that there are a few possible sources of the pain and you will need professional assistance from a physiotherapist to make a diagnosis.
Otherwise, go to the colour coded body region link, below the full body chart, in which you have symptoms. The link will open a body image and instructions for assessing the movement of that part of the body. This assessment will be linked to self-management advice and therapeutic exercises to help your recovery.
When you go to the specific form, here's what you need to know about measuring and drawing your movement dysfunction.
USING THE BODY PART IMAGES
Save the Image to your device. On a mobile device, press with your finger on the image until the menu presents itself. Then on an Apple Device touch 'add to photos'. On an Android, 'save image' and it will save to the Gallery App. On a desktop, you can click on the image and then save the image as a file wherever you need.
Open and MarkUp the Image on your device. Open your saved image. The apps that hold your images have mark up tools so that you can draw on the image.
On a desktop, open the saved image in the preview app. The mark up tools are in the toolbar across the top of the image.
On an android phone, the markup tools are in the menu of the icon picture-of-mountains-with-a-pen. In that menu you will find pencil and text tools.
On an Apple device: Open the image. Open 'edit'. Open three dot menu (...) at the top right of the image. Open 'Markup'. You will see a choice of 3 different colour pens, an eraser, a colour palette, and a text box under the +sign.
On all mobile devices you select a pen by touching it. You can also adjust the pen line size. Then you can draw on the image with your finger on the touchscreen.
Drawing and Labelling Symptoms.
On your desktop, use the mouse & cursor to draw the pain and other symptoms on the body chart image. It should automatically save changes.
On your mobile device, magnify the part of the body you want to draw your symptoms on by adjusting the image (usually with 2 fingers spreading apart on the touch screen).
Draw on the image, the position of your symptoms. You can use a different colour for the different symptoms e.g sharp pain, ache, tingling.
You can also use the text box to label your symptoms on the image e.g. sharp pain, ache, tingling, stiff.
Adding Your Name to the Chart. Open a text box on the image. By touching and holding the text box, slide it to a blank space at the top left of the image. Let it go and then tap the text box to show the edit menu. Touch 'edit' and the keyboard will show up. Type your first and last name in the text box. You can adjust the size and position of the text box with your fingers, so it is not covering the image.