The following Self-Test was designed to help determine if a person
most likely has disc disease as a source of their back pain or neck
pain. It is intended to identify those who would most likely be bettered
by The O'Connor Technique (tm), eliminate those who would probably
would not, and convince persons most likely to benefit from this self-administered
diagnostic method and physical therapy technique that their time would
be well-spent studying the The O'Connor Technique (tm). If
the pain does, indeed, originate from displaced disc material, those
who, for the most part, are otherwise healthy, not elderly, have no
known major spinal x-ray abnormalities unrelated to disc disease will
have back pain or neck pain that answers "true" to the following
questions. The more "true" answers, the more likely one
is to have disc disease amenable to The O'Connor Technique (tm).
If one answers "false" there may be a very good reason
why, and the explanations elaborating each response help to clarify
the answers so as not to unnecessarily eliminate someone who would
otherwise probably be helped. At the end of the entire test, the answers
can be submitted for a total score assessment by clicking on the appropriate
box. If you want to just rapidly move through the list of questions
and don't feel an explanation is necessary, simply click "Just
The Questions" box. So, to take the test,
Drawings of back pain exercise as performed by clowns are strongly discouraged for back pain sufferers. Those exercises are not only non-productive but self-defeating.