1 Before you use it
What it is
Sixteen items across four dimensions — daily activities, work and leisure, anxiety and depression, and social interest. Built for chronic spinal pain rather than acute.
When to reach for it
Persistent spinal pain where you suspect the psychosocial dimensions are doing more work than the physical ones.
Patterns it serves · 1
2 Giving it
Scoring
Visual analogue items grouped into four dimensions, each expressed as a percentage. Report the four dimensions separately — the profile is the output, not a total.
What it doesn’t measure
It is not a mental-health assessment and does not diagnose anxiety or depression. Refer appropriately where distress is the finding.
3 Reading the score
Interpreting it
Interpret against baseline.
Its value is the shape of the profile. Two patients with the same overall impact can have opposite profiles, and the profile is what tells you where to aim.
Is the change real?
Student trap. Collapsing it into one number. The four-dimension profile is the entire reason to use it.
Official source: oarsi.org. We don't host the form.
This is a learning tool. It does not diagnose patients and does not replace your clinical educator.
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