YOUR PAIN HAS A PATTERN

The Way Your Pain Behaves Can Tell You Something

The way your pain feels, when it flares, what makes it worse, and what seems to help can reveal patterns worth paying attention to.

Take this 9-question quiz to discover which of six Traditional Chinese Medicine pain patterns shows up most strongly for you, and gain a clearer way to understand what you’ve been experiencing.

Discover My TCM Pain Pattern

Empathetic holistic practitioner examining pulse points and diagnostic indicators in a warm clinical environment

BEYOND ISOLATED SYMPTOMS

The Details You Notice About Your Pain Matter

Maybe stress makes your shoulders tighten and your pain flare.

Maybe cold weather leaves you feeling stiff and achy. Your pain might burn, move from place to place, feel unusually heavy, or stay fixed in the same stubborn spot.

When you’ve lived with chronic pain for months or years, these details can start to feel like an endless collection of symptoms.

Traditional Chinese Medicine looks at them differently.

The quality of the pain, where it appears, when it changes, and what affects it can point toward recognizable patterns in how the body is responding.

Identifying your strongest pattern can give you a useful framework for understanding why your pain tends to behave the way it does.

ARCHETYPE PROFILES

Which Pattern Sounds
Most Familiar?

Qi Stagnation

Pain feels tight or pressurized, changes throughout the day, and often flares when stress builds.

Cold Bi

Pain feels deep, achy, and stiff, especially in cold environments or first thing in the morning.

Heat Bi

Pain feels hot, burning, or inflamed and may become more noticeable with heat or overactivity.

Wind Bi

Pain changes quickly, moves from place to place, or seems frustratingly unpredictable.

Damp Bi

Pain feels heavy, dragging, or persistent and may come with swelling, fatigue, or brain fog.

Blood Stasis

Pain feels sharp, fixed, deep, or stubborn and may have been present in the same area for a long time.

EVALUATION PROCESS

Give Your Pain A
Framework That Makes Sense

When you finish the quiz, you’ll discover:

Your strongest TCM pain pattern, based on the qualities you experience most often
Why your pain may behave the way it does through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine
What people with your pattern often find helpful
How your result fits into the bigger chronic pain picture, including the role of protective patterns in the brain, body, and nervous system

Your Result Is 9 Questions Away

Only 9 Questions Estimated time: 3 minutes

STEP 01: Notice How Your Pain Shows Up

Questions 1–3 look at how your pain feels, how temperature or weather affects it, and whether it stays in one place or tends to move.

STEP 02: See What Changes The Pattern

Questions 4–7 explore when your pain is worst, how stress affects it, what seems to help, and the history of the pattern.

STEP 03: Complete Your Pain Pattern

Questions 8–9 look at how your body feels overall when pain is present and which description feels most true for you.”

Then, as its own line under the three steps:

“Then enter your name and email to see which of the six Traditional Chinese Medicine pain patterns showed up most strongly in your answers.

MEET DR. KEELY

Chronic Pain Became Personal Long Before It Became My Work

I’m Dr. Keely Taylor, DACM.

I lived with chronic pain and nervous system dysregulation for twenty-five years. That experience eventually led me to study the connection between pain, the nervous system, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and ultimately complete my Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.

Today, my work brings together pain neuroscience, mind-body techniques, somatic practices, movement, and Chinese medicine to help people better understand the patterns behind persistent pain and build practical ways to work with their bodies.

I’ve spent more than 19 years doing this work, including over 8,000 clinical hours treating people living with pain.

READY TO CONNECT THE DOTS?

Your Pain Has Been
Giving You Clues

You’ve already been noticing when it changes, what makes it flare, where it settles, and what brings some relief.

Now you can put those clues together.

Discover the TCM pain pattern that shows up most strongly for you and begin making more sense of what your body has been experiencing.

Discover My TCM Pain Pattern

Disclaimer

“This quiz is for educational purposes only and is not medical treatment. It does not create a doctor-patient or practitioner-patient relationship with Dr. Keely Taylor or Heal with Dr. Keely. Your result is educational and should not be used as a medical diagnosis.”