✅ Understanding symptom behavior is crucial to being able to appropriately plan your examination and treatments.

✅ A big part of this is understanding the irritability of a symptom. Irritability has three components to make a judgement:

1️⃣ How easily is it provoked 2️⃣ How intense are the symptoms provoked 3️⃣ How much does it take to reduce symptoms back to baseline

🤔 Is irritability a measure of the tissue?

🤔 Are there more things than simple nociceptive messages into the system that influence a patient's reports?