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Managing Chronic Pain: How Visual Tracking Aids Medical Decisions
2024-08-26•6 min read•阳孙
Managing Chronic Pain: How Visual Tracking Aids Medical Decisions
For chronic pain patients (Migraine, Arthritis, AS), describing conditions to doctors is hard. "Doc, my back hurts." "How? How long?" Hard to articulate.
Value of Pain Tracking
Pain is invisible. Tracking turns subjective feelings into objective data, helping doctors:
- Judge Trends: Getting worse or better?
- Find Triggers: Rain? Specific food?
- Assess Meds: Time to effect? Duration?
PainMap: Make Pain Visible
[PainMap](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/painmap-pain-tracker-diary/id6757266269) is a pro pain diary tool.
- Body Map: Tap pain spots on a 3D model; color depth = pain level (VAS score).
- Med Tracking: Log dose/time, correlate with pain changes.
- Export Report: One-click PDF medical report with heatmaps and curves. Show it to your doctor.
Step 1 of pain management is facing it. Use [PainMap](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/painmap-pain-tracker-diary/id6757266269), be your body's observer.
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