Mark: As a psychologist, I don't like the MMPI but it's a favorite test because (1) it doesn't require much time and effort to administer and (2) it generates numerical scores, so people assume it has validity. What your report indicated is that the MMPI cannot tell if pain is real (duh!) and my hunch is that the psychologist who submitted the report just took the results off a computer program and added no thoughts or judgment of his own. A good pre-surgery psych assessment should address patient coping skills, to put it most simply.
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2001 MVA; C5-C6 disk extruded
ongoing physical therapy, exercise and massage
ESI's, oral prednisone, trigger point injections
foraminal and central stenosis C5/C6 and c6/C7
2007 EMG/nerve conduction shows pattern of chronic radiculopathy
January, 2008: Prestige ST Artificial Disk Replacement, C5/6
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