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Guidelines and Rules for mypainweb Forum.
Welcome to the mypainweb forum! We are so glad you are joining our conversation.
The mypainweb forum is found on the web at mypainweb.forumotion.com.
The goal of the mypainweb forum is to offer information and support to people who are struggling with Chronic Pain.
We hope you can learn from each other in a positive and motivating environment. Use this opportunity to discuss your chronic pain situation, or that of a loved one, and how it has affected you physically, socially, mentally, and emotionally. Chronic Pain can profoundly change people's lives.
To ensure responses, please read over all of our available topics, and post under the topic that is most closely related to your health issue. Read threads that cover your topic so you can benefit from all the collective wisdom that is already here.
The overall objective of the mypainweb forum is to provide detailed information regarding Chronic Pain. Visit my home page,
mypainweb.com where you will find more information and resources.
Finally, consider this forum as a support-group whereby the opportunity exists for you to reach out and connect to others who face the obstacles of living with Chronic Pain.
1. Authority
1.01 Our forum is moderated on a daily basis.
1.02 The system moderators are volunteers.
1.03 The moderators and forum members are not health professionals.
2. Complementarity
2.01 The information provided on the mypainweb forum is designed to support, not replace, the direct relationship between patients and their doctors / healthcare professionals.
3. Privacy
3.01 We remind you that any message can be read, used, reproduced and cited by all. Any post can be used or reproduced for usage outside the mypainweb forum on mypainweb.forumotion.com forum or on external websites, emails or printed materials.
3.02 You do not have the option to delete your messages. However, under exceptional circumstances, you can contact the moderators to do so. The references you provide for your posts cannot be deleted. Thus, please take care regarding the information that you post.
4. Messages
4.01 The moderators and members should conduct themselves at all times with respect and honesty.
4.02 By using the mypainweb forum, you agree to post information that is true and correct to the best of your knowledge and is of your personal experience. If the information you post is not personal experience, we request you to provide sources (references, links, etc.) whenever it is relevant and possible.
4.03 You are not allowed to post advertisements or commercial solicitations, whether in the form of text links, banners or other methods.
4.04 The moderators reserve the right to delete any messages deemed inappropriate without notifying the author. In cases of abuse, the moderators reserve the right to ban a member of the forum. In both instances, an explanation will be provided if user requests.
5. Additional Rules and Regulations
5.01 You agree not to submit or post material that is harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable in any manner or nature to the mypainweb forum on the mypainweb forum. This includes the bashing and/or name calling of physicians.
5.02 You agree not to post personal information about other forum members on the site, including email addresses.
5.03 You agree not to impersonate other individuals when you submit to the mypainweb forum.
5.04 You agree not to submit or post advertisements or commercial solicitations to the mypainweb forum.
5.05 You agree not to engage in any solicitation either on the mypainweb.com forum or via email to mypainweb.com viewers.
5.06 You agree not to post information that is considered to be formal medical advice.
5.07 You agree not to post surveys or poll other members on this site.
5.08 You agree not to engage in religious or political discussions. Posts regarding these subjects will be reviewed by the moderator team to determine if it can remain.
5.09 You agree not to submit or post copyrighted material, without permission, to the mypainweb forum.
5.10 You agree not to post specific physician names or health care facilities names on the mypainweb forum.
5.11 You agree not to make duplicate threads.
5.12 You agree that any information, opinions or other content provided by doctors or patients on mypainweb.com forums is for educational purposes only and is not intended for medical diagnoses or treatment. Always consult with a physician for any health problem or medical condition.
5.13 You agree not to ask for any analysis or interpretation of diagnostic tests (ie MRI, CTScans, EMG, etc.),
5.14 You agree not to respond to any request for analysis of diagnostic tests (ie MRI, CTScans, EMG, etc.)
5.15 Licensed physicians may not use their doctor title in their member name. Any doctor who wishes to become a member of the mypainweb forum must first register with the mypainweb owner.
5.16 Members may not use the phrase DR, Doctor, Dr., or any other combination of letters that would indicate that they are medical professionals.
5.17 The mypainweb forum assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, or failure to post messages.
5.18 The mypainweb forum reserves the right to edit, monitor and/or delete comments at our discretion without notice.
6. Spammers
6.01 Once a member post has been identified as SPAM or pure solicitation, the post will be deleted and the member will be deleted without any warning. Spine-health will not tolerate any form of spamming.
6.02 Do NOT identify specific places of business or establishments
6.03 All posts should be in English. Use of any other language is accepted only as part of a question and/or response.
7. Banning
7.01 Permanent banning will occur after a member receives 3 formal warnings from the moderator team.
8. Temporary Banning
8.01 The moderator team will use their judgment based on the severity of an incident to establish a temporary banning. The length of that banning will also be determined by the severity of the incident. No formal warning needs to be sent to a member to make them aware of the situation. Any correspondence would be done via formal email.
9. Guideline for Including Links/Outside Material in Forum Posts
9.01 No posting links to advertisements or as solicitations of business.
9.02 No posting links which are not relevant to the applicable forum topic.
9.03 No posting material that infringes on the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others.
9.04 Any outside content or material directly quoted must include a reference to the location the source from which it came.
The moderator team reserves the right to edit any post
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