Patent ID: 8784307

Claim:
A method of assessing musculoskeletal disorder risk, comprising the steps of: providing a questionnaire that contains at least one question in regard to location of pain, at least one question in regard to level of pain, at least one question in regard to quality of pain, and at least one question in regard to frequency of pain; recording responses to said questions in said questionnaire; providing a set of integration grids that assign a level of impact to a plurality of body regions from said responses; implementing a processor to calculate a weighted average of level of impact for said plurality of body regions; implementing a processor to generate a scaled score from said weighted average of level of impact for a plurality of body regions, wherein said weighted average of level of impact for a plurality of body regions is based at least in part by a distance from a location of pain, providing a set of integration grids that assign a level of impact to said plurality of body regions from said responses; calculating a weighted average of level of impact for said plurality of body regions; generating a scaled score from said weighted average of level of impact for a plurality of body regions, wherein said weighted average of level of impact for said plurality of body regions is based at least in part by a distance from a location of pain and wherein said weighted average of level of impact for said plurality of body regions is based at least in part by a body mass index.