Clinical review
Reviewer: Zoe Lahood, Senior House Officer, Hutt Valley DHB, NZ
Date of review: March 2022
Comments: This app documents pain characteristics and aggravating/alleviating factors and can plot these on a graph for trends. Any pain can be documented, including chronic abdominal pain. It may be useful for people with long-term conditions. The app provides a trend for the user to analyse, in order to work out what management suits them best or what underlying factors may be contributing to the pain. Overall, the app is a useful way for patients to reflect on their pain conditions and use the data to enact changes to pain management or modify aggravating factors relating to their pain. The free version is easy to use but not very comprehensive.
Safety concerns: None.
New Zealand relevance: Medication references are to commonly used US brands, some of which are not used in New Zealand.
Clinical review
Reviewer: Jeremy Steinberg, GP, FRNZCGP
Date of review: November 2017
Comments: This app allows you to document and share pain information and trends with your doctor, to help make more informed treatment decisions and track your progress. It's most helpful for logging chronic pain at the end of each day, allowing the user and their doctor to see pain trends, triggers, relieving factors and other information which could potentially help with treatment or for self-care. It would be best used before and after a change in treatment to track effectiveness.
Safety concerns: None.
New Zealand relevance: When adding medication through the searchable list, make sure to input the generic name to ensure you can find it in the database.
