Your care team may ask you to fill out one of these short questionnaires before a visit. They measure how back pain or other health problems affect your daily life. Each form adds up your score for you as you answer. Comparing scores over time helps you and your provider see how you are responding to treatment.
Oswestry Disability Index (ODI)
10 sections about how back or leg pain affects pain level, personal care, lifting, walking, sitting, standing, sleep, sex life, social life and travel. Takes about 5 minutes.
Score: 0% to 100%. Lower is better.
Start the ODI →PROMIS Physical Function and Pain Interference
16 questions in two parts: what you are able to do physically, and how much pain got in the way of your life in the past 7 days. Takes about 5 minutes.
Score: T-scores, where 50 is the US average.
Start the PROMIS forms →How to use these forms
- Answer every question based on how you are now (or in the past 7 days, where the question says so).
- Your score updates as you answer.
- When you finish, choose Print / Save as PDF. Bring the printout to your appointment, or show the PDF to our staff.
- Nothing you enter is sent to GSMC or stored on this website.
These scores do not diagnose a condition. Your provider will review them with you. If you have questions, call us at 732-202-3000.