Filed Under : 
Sep.19,2009 
Category: Healthcare
Price: $2.99
Description:
Chronic Pain is one of the most pervasive and most costly diseases in the World. Millions of people suffer with chronic pain and its insidious symptoms. For sufferers, it is critical to their medical care that they can effectively communicate the nature of their pain to their doctors. This is a difficult challenge since pain is one of the most subjective and personal experiences humans face.
Pain Tracker has been designed to improve the Patient-to-Doctor exchange of pain information. Using Pain Tracker, the patient can monitor three key pain metrics: pain intensity, location, and description. Sufferers of Chronic Pain know that each of these metrics can change day to day, or even hour to hour. This can make diagnosis and treatment of pain symptoms more challenging since patients most commonly describe their pain based on their most recent experience rather than using an evaluative process to statistically describe the typical pain symptoms being experienced.
Capturing Pain Data
With Pain Tracker, the user regularly makes a Pain Entry in the application. Depending on their needs/preferences, this may be once a day, or once every few hours. The entry process is designed to be intuitive and quick, while still capturing the necessary details about their pain. The following data points are captured for each entry:
ï Timestamp – this date/time marker is automatically generated by the application with no user interaction required.
ï Pain Level – using the familiar visual pain scale, the user selects their current pain level from 0 to 10
ï Pain Location – simply tapping on the body sections defines where the pain is being felt
ï Pain Descriptions – the user can select one or more adjectives in the table that best define the pain they are feeling
ï General Comments – the user has the option to provide any other details/information desired for the entry
Pain Analysis & Summary
With Pain Tracker, a user can automatically consolidate pain entries for a given time period and statistically analyze those entries. The application includes a series of pre-define reports such as "Last 7 days", "Last 30 days", etc. but also allows the user to define their own start and end dates for the analysis. Then, in a single screen's view, Pain Tracker provides a wealth of information including:
Pain Level Analysis
Using the same visual pain scale seen in the pain entry screen, the report view highlights the average pain level experienced during the reported period. The report also displays the distribution of pain levels recorded during the period. This can help clarify for the user and/or their doctor whether the pain levels are consistent (eg. a tight distribution around the average) or whether they vary considerably over time (eg. a loose distribution around the average).
Pain Location Summary
Pain Tracker consolidates pain location information from each entry and displays an aggregated location view. The segments of the body are color coded based on the proportion of entries that included that segment as being painful. The color coding is further backed up with a percentage value which provides the specific information on how often that segment was cited as being painful. This type of analysis can aid the patient and their doctor in identifying the primary areas to focus their efforts on.
Pain Description Analysis
The feelings experienced by pain sufferers can vary widely. Like the pain location information, the pain description area of the report provides the percentage of time cited statistics along with sorting the descriptive terms in the order of most often cited.
*** Pain Tracker requires iPhone 3.0 or greater
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