Intuitive and Medically-Relevant Description Approach
Manage My Pain™ leverages the American Pain Foundation‘s LOCATES methodology to describe pain. This approach provides an intuitive way for patients to easily describe their pain to enable medical professionals to evaluate and assess the pain.
L: Location of the pain and other body parts that it travels to.
O: Other associated symptoms such as anxiety, dizziness, or nausea.
C: Character of the pain such as burning, dull, sharp, or throbbing.
A: Aggravating and alleviating factors. What makes the pain get better or worse?
T: Time and duration of pain, and whether it is constant, intermittent or breakthrough.
E: Environment where the pain occurs, such as while at work or at home.
S: Severity of the pain using a 0-to-10 pain scale from no pain to worst ever.
Each section already contains a pre-populated list based on medical journals of common characteristics from chronic pain conditions.
Quick and Simple Ways to Record Pain
• Add pain records through a single-screen typing-free interface
• Customize lists to ensure accurate and relevant descriptors
• Duplicate an existing record to avoid re-entry
Sort and Filter Pain Records
• Apply a filter to only view records that meet specific criteria
• Sort records by date, time of day, severity, or duration
• Examples include understanding how often pain occurs at work, in the early morning, or both!
Graph, Chart, & View Records
• Get a summary of your pain, including key statistics
• Analyze the distribution of your records through Pie Charts
• Graph the severity of your pain over time
• See a Calendar of your pain, its severity, and key characteristics of it, such as when you took medication
• View all the details of your records in a list
Generate and Share Reports
• Create a summarized one-page assessment of your pain
• Email or view your reports in PDF format to share or print
• Optionally, include all details to support the summary
Backup and restore your data
• Export all records to a file on your SD Card
• Import your records from a file across all supported Android devices
