Pain Tracker & Diary
This app was designed by an MD pain specialist and PhD pharmacologist to help users with chronic pain create a comprehensive picture-diary of the different types of pain felt throughout the day. By keeping such a detailed diary, users can now see and better understand what they have been feeling and if the treatments being tried are helping them.
TRACK IT BETTER. TREAT IT BETTER.
Using patent-pending technology, you can now distinctly track, map, and monitor the intensity, pattern, and extent-of-spread of at least 12 different types of pain on your mobile device. We’ve also added a separate tracking system for numbness.
PAIN IS LIFE-CHANGING.
When you are suffering with pain, what you want is to get better again and be able to help your doctor understand what you are feeling.
Tracking your pain is important in treating your pain. When your healthcare team can see exactly how your pain changes over time, trends can emerge that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Pain is a complex sensation that can constantly change with varying intensities, textures, locations, and patterns of spread. This is especially true for individuals who suffer from a severe type of chronic pain called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).
Nanolume® makes it easy for you to track, analyze, and map at least 12 distinct types of pain every day. By more completely knowing what types of pain a person is suffering with, such knowledge can be used to improve the basis upon which your diagnosis and treatment can be developed and/or adjusted.
PAIN IS DIFFERENT.
Pain is a subjective (not objective) sensation — it cannot be measured by a medical device. Its assessment relies on the ability of a person to accurately describe and communicate what he or she feels.
This app helps you explain and show to others precisely what you feel every day.
FEATURES.
For each diary entry (pain picture):
• Choose from a list of at least 12 uniquely different pain types; you can even choose multiple types of pain — each one layered separately.
• Select the intensity of each pain type.
• Use your finger or a stylus pen to draw an “outline” around the location where each type of pain is felt. Want to "outline" a smaller area of pain on your face, fingers, or toes? Use our new “DOUBLE-TAP-TO-ZOOM” feature to expand your view.
• The app automatically calculates (estimates) the % body surface area covered (affected) by each (or all) type(s) of pain.
• Open a saved entry (pain picture) and look at the location of each unique pain type (by touching the pain type you want to see) or look at how all the pain types overlap together (by touching "All Layers"). Swipe the picture left or right to review how your pain changes over time.
• Add "Notes" for additional details.
• Miss an entry? Go back and recreate a "pain picture" from the past; then, use the "Calendar" icon to backdate the recreated entry.
• View a summary of your data in "Charts".
INCLUDED APP FUNCTIONS.
• Unlimited Pain Entries. An unlimited number of entries can be saved and tracked (data summarized in “Charts”).
• Copy/Edit. Copy or edit-a-copy of a previous pain entry.
• Numbness. Track numbness along with pain entries (data charted separately).
• Custom Pain Types. Define up to 3 customized pain types.
• Interactive Summary & Animation. After a week of data is saved, play an animation showing how “each” of your pain types, or “all” of your pain types, change within any time period you choose by selecting the corresponding start/stop dates.
• Calendar. Touch the "Calendar" icon to backdate any pain-picture you draw to create a record of what you remember feeling from the past.
• Export. Share (email) a CSV file of your numeric data or a PDF of your DRAWINGS and notes!
DATA STORAGE.
Data is stored on your device and is not saved/stored by Nanolume®, LLC.
VIDEO INFORMATION.
https://vimeo.com/174772061
Copyright © 2014-2019 Nanolume® LLC. All rights reserved. Patent Pending.
Category : Medical
Reviews (14)
Good features for drawing pain on diagram. Deducted star: Would like to see the title of a pain type next to the icons, rather than having to remember what each square represents. Would like to see a summary mode with both front/back entry side by side (with legend) and notes included at bottom. Right now to summarize properly requires 3 screenshots--front, back, and notes. Edit: excellent update. Added the above feature. Very good. Bit buried, so may be something you want to make more obvious.
Superb - just one slight issue - it's not possible to add pain to the body map (for an entry) once it's saved :-( notes, however, can be retro added. Developer responded with a workaround: basically make a copy (makes a new entry with copied pain) but edit the date time to overwrite the original entry. Works, but I think direct retro edit/update would be preferable.
Latest update appeared to have erased the pain locale images, but the developer responded quickly to my concern. So thumbs up for support. This feature of the app is it's most valuable as a picture tells a thousand words. It's the best implementation of this feature in pain diaries that I've used so far.
This app is a must have tool for anyone who lives with chronic pain. It is very intuitive and user friendly. Using this tool regularly gives you the voice and language, through pictures and words, for what you've been trying to express. It speaks in a way that both medical professionals and families/friends understand. If you are a chronic pain warrior - you will never be without this amazing and powerful app!!
Its good just not very inclusive or customisable. I should be able to change the body's appearance to female. It would also be helpful if you added a skeleton mode so charts can be more accurate.
I like the choices for pain tyoes and the ability to draw pain areas. Would like some improvements. I wish i could print out the pictures and any notes i made and not just a csv file for my doctor. Also it would be helpful to be able to include pain meds.
One recommendation, instead of trying to filled in the area, why not have the option of one click to do a limb or a section of the back. It's too painful for me to filled in the area. That's why I stopped using it...
I have long searched for the perfect pain record app. I have tried more apps than I can remember but then I found Nanolume- a total godsend. This app is perfect and I would recommend anyone considering this app to buy it. It is so worth it. I can't praise it enough!
This app is amazing,well worth the money! Its designed for those of us affected by crps. It not only makes it easy for you to see n compare your good n bad days but a great way to break down your specific symptoms and problems to your specialist. I recommend this to not just crps patients but anyone that deals with chronic pain. Thankful to the person that developed this!🙂❤
I really recommend this app to anyone in chronic pain. Easy to use, and gets very detailed. I love that we can add our own types of pain the app doesn't start with. for those that have many types of pain, this is a great way to show your doctor(s) exactly what is going on and where.
Can't seem to delete pain entries once you've entered them. so if you make a big mistake you can't get it out of your chart. Fixed. Thank you!
The app itself is okay, so far, but I've got a question for the data store: I want to backup/restore my data, and did not find a glue, where it is.
I am a current patient and am having to translate myself from the McGill pain scale, back to pain 1-10. I find this program much different than Journaling. Thank you for creating this for all us in chronic pain. I believe this will prove very informative about the individual. An absolutely brilliant idea put into play.
Fantastic app! My doctors find it very, very helpful and it's very easy to add entries on the fly. My only suggestion is to make the playback feature switch automatically between front and back views. It's confusing to the doctor when an entry appears blank because it's on the other side. Kudos to the developers though. They did a fantastic job with this one.