Pain Management Journal

I have noticed in my research this past month that more forms and sheets are being developed for a push that people with chronic pain conditions keep a journal.  In developing Pain Management Assistant, I have found that the issue isn’t as much how much data could be useful and tracked, but picking the right data to track that will give the biggest effect.

Picking the right set of data to track varies by patient and the type of pain issues they are fighting.  Neuropathic pain is quite different in management then say a Cancer pain.  Similarly fibromyalgia’s become a big issue in the last few years (though having been a problem for much longer media and drug companies have targeted more recently).

Seeing the majority of new modalities has had me rethinking the configuration and design of PMA.  Instead of one that provides a set static group of forms for tracking pain, to one that will allow you to configure which information sets are important for you to track.  As well we will build in configurations for form sets that are more likely to be of use to a specific pain modality.