Setting up Pain Body Diagram for Pain Assessment

To begin, screen the patients using the displayed patient inclusion criteria. Then, import a gender appropriate PBD template showing both front and back body surfaces into an illustration application on a touch sensitive digital tablet, equipped with a pressure sensitive drawing tool. After downloading the template to the tablet's photo library and importing it, create a new layer on top of the PBD template for the participant by clicking the layers icon and then the plus button.

This will result in two layers, one with the PBD, and one for the participants drawing with colors indicating pain. Next, create a new brush with X equals Y pressure to hue transformation curve by clicking the brush library icon and the plus button to open the brush studio. Click the color dynamics button and scroll to the color pressure section.

For the hue slider, click the numeric percentage to achieve a straight 45 degree line in the pressure transformation graph. To define the hue gradient range from green to blue to red, adjust the hue slider in the color pressure section by clicking the percentage number listed and entering a numeric value of 81%Adjust the pen tool slider to select a size suitable for the study participants'needs.