The PVT vs the MPPI

PVT vs IMEs & Surveillance

1) A Comparison between the MMPI and the Hendler Back Pain Test for Validating the Complaint of Chronic Back Pain in Men, J. of Neurological and Ortho Med and Surg. 1985; A Comparison between the MMPI and the Mensana Clinic Back Pain Test for Validating the Complaint of Chronic BackPain in Women, Pain, 1985; A Comparison between the MMPI and the Mensana Clinic Back Pain Test for Validating the Complaint of Chronic Back Pain, J. Occup. Med., 1988.

2) Hendler, N and Baker, A., An Internet questionnaire to predict the presence or absence of organic pathology in chronic back, neck and limb pain patients, Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery, in press, 2008; Hendler, N., Viernstein, M., Gucer, P., Long, D.: "A Preoperative Screening Test for Chronic Back Pain Patients." Psychosomatics. Vol. 20, No. 12:801-808, December, 1979; Hendler, N.: "Validating and Treating the Complaint of Chronic Back Pain: The Mensana Clinic Approach." Clinical Neurosurgery. Vol. 35, Chap. 20:385-397, eds. Black, P., Alexander, E., Barrow, D., et. al., Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1988; Hendler, N, Cashen, A, Hendler, S, Brigham, C, Osborne, P., LeRoy, P, Graybill, T, Catlett, L, and Gronblad, M.. A multicenter study for validating the Complaint of chronic back, neck and limb pain, using the Mensana Clinic Pain Validity Test, Forensic Examiner, Vol. 14, No. 2, pages 41-49, Summer, 2005; A Comparison between the MMPI and the Hendler Back Pain Test for Validating the Complaint of Chronic Back Pain in Men, J. of Neurological and Ortho Med and Surg. 1985; A Comparison between the MMPI and the Mensana Clinic Back Pain Test for Validating the Complaint of Chronic BackPain in Women, Pain, 1985; A Comparison between the MMPI and the Mensana Clinic Back Pain Test for Validating the Complaint of Chronic Back Pain, J. Occ. Med., 1988.

PVT vs the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

MMPI

• 566 true-false questions

• Yields personality disorders and psychosis analysis (hysterical, schizophrenic, etc.)

• Has never consistently been correlated with the presence of absence of organic pathology.

• In fact, three articles in the medical literature have shown that it can not predict organic pathology. 1

PVT

• 32 multiple choice questions with over 150 answers

• Measures the impact of pain on peoples’ lives

• 7 articles prove its ability to predict the presence of absence of pain. 2.