| 1.1. Symptoms/pain begin without a physical reason (often occurring with no injury, upon waking up in the morning, or during a time of stress) | | |
| 1.2. Pain persists after an injury has healed (all injuries heal within 3-6 months and scars do not cause pain) | | |
| 1.3. Symptoms/pain are in a distribution pattern that is symmetric in the body, mirror image on the left and right side (e.g., both shoulders or both hands) | | |
| 1.4. Symptoms are triggered by things that are not related to the actual symptom, such as foods, smells, sounds, bright lights, computer screens, menses, changes in the weather. | | |
| 1.5. Pain spreads over time to different areas of the body. | | |
| 1.6. Pain moves to the opposite side of the body or down a whole leg or arm. | | |
| 1.7. Pain that occurs in many different body parts at the same time (hands, lower back, neck, and stomach) | | |
| 1.8. Do you have multiple symptoms that are different (shoulder pain AND fatigue; or headaches AND digestive problems AND insomnia; or hip pain AND bladder urgency AND tinnitus)? | | |
| 1.9. Have you previously been to many doctors and health practitioners to try find a cause for your symptoms/pain? | | |
| 1.10. Symptoms/pain are more or less intense depending on the time of day. They occur first thing in the morning or in the middle of the night. You have an 8/10 pain in the morning and it drops to 4/10 at lunchtime. | | |
| 1.11. Symptoms/pain occur when stress is increased or one thinks about stressful situations. | | |
| 1.12. Does your personality tend to have the following traits: perfectionistic, overly conscientious, worrying a lot, a people-pleaser, insecure, doubtful of yourself, getting easily overwhelmed, and being self-critical? | | |
