The DP&TA ™ was developed with more than 7,000 chronic pain patients over a period of 30 years at the highly regarded pain clinic which also developed the Pain Validity Test and which, along with Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic, Business Week recognized as one of the top eight pain clinics in the US

It consists of 72 questions with 2,008 possible answers and has been able to achieve a 97% correlation with the  diagnoses given by the medical director at the clinic.

In an addition to providing a comprehensive set of actual diagnoses, the DP&TA generates specific and detailed treatment algorithms which begin with the least expensive and invasive tests and treatments and progress through a series of increasingly complex tests and treatments.

By following the recommended course of tests and treatments, a treating physician can expect results comparable to those achieved at the clinic.

Like the Pain Validity Test, the Diagnostic Paradigm & Treatment Algorithm is available on-line in English or Spanish.

Depending on the nature and number of the patient’s symptoms, it can be completed in 15 to 90 minutes under proctored conditions at specially trained physical and occupational therapy clinics through- out the US.

To address the problem of accurately differentiating individuals with valid complaints of pain from ones who are malingering, faking or exaggerating, faculty members at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and another highly regarded pain clinic developed a verbal test – the EMIS Pain Validity Test™ – which was originally validated on 796 chronic pain patients, with results published in seven peer-reviewed articles in medical and other journals.      

As documented in the most recent of these articles, the Pain Validity Test (PVT ™) can

• predict - with 95% certainty - which chronic pain complainants will have moderate or severe abnormalities on objective medical tests* i.e. whose complaints of pain are legitimate.

• predict - with 85% certainty - which chronic pain complainants will have mild or no abnormalities on objective medical tests* i.e. who  are exaggerating or faking.

The PVT has been successfully used without challenge at the pre-deposition, deposition, and trial stages in numerous cases in a variety of jurisdictions.

The PVT is available in English or Spanish and can be completed in 10 to 15 minutes over the Internet under proctored conditions at specially trained physical and occupational therapy clinics nationwide.

* including  MRIs, myelograms, CTs, 3D-CTs, flexion-extension x-rays, electro-myography, nerve conduction studies, quantitative flow-meter studies, nerve blocks, root blocks, etc.