Learn more: Skin Diagnostic Flowcharts

These diagnostic flow charts will provide you with a quick reference to assist you in “zeroing in” on the causes and contributing factors of many skin conditions by helping you to filter the large amount of information gathered during the consultation process.
Flowcharts cover the seven groups of contributing factors including nutrition, phototype, genetics,medical history, medications, hormonal influences and more.

Sample pages from 3-D Skin Diagnostic Flow Charts
By Florence Barrett-Hill  ISBN 978-0-473-29464-9

These flow charts follow the Pastiche Diagnostic Methodology (PDM) and are split into intrinsic and extrinsic categories, each group of factors comes with a possible event that will affect skins
structure and function. It is this extended thought process that helps you to understand why the skin is displaying specific skin conditions; because skin is a site of response to an event.

We have established that the consultation gathers a large amount of data that needs to be filtered into categories that will determine a quickly summarized result that the diagnostic technician can use confidently. By using the most commonly found causes and linking them across to cells and systems and skin conditions affected and by filtering with intrinsic and extrinsic factors, the Pastiche Diagnostic Flow charts are an excellent diagnostic tool.