Tracking, Managing & Controlling Your Pain
Why Is Tracking & Controlling Your Pain Important?
Tracking your pain is one of the best ways you can help not only yourself treat, control & manage your chronic pain, but also help your healthcare provider. In order for your healthcare provide to help manage your pain they must know detailed information about your chronic back pain, chronic neck pain, etc.
Keep Losing Your Pain Journal or Diary?
Are you tired of loosing your pain diary, your pain journal, or the piece of paper that you've been writing on? Embarrased when you arrive at your doctor's office and don't remember what your pain levels are, when you took your medications, or how often you took those meds at the amounts & times you are supposed to?
Well, thanks to a company, called
ReliefInsite.com, you no longer have to worry about loosing your paper, pain diary &/or pain journal. They have a great online pain managment tool to help you with all of your pain tracking needs.
Their tool allows us a much better means of communicating your detailed pain to your healthcare provider &/or your family members. If you suffer with chronic pain and the terrible impact it has your life, you will definitely appreciate this much needed tool.
It is the company's mission to help people like us in pain to receive better and faster treatment, whether you have
chronic neck pain,
chronic back pain, etc., so we can live better and more productive lives.
Worried about your privacy? ReliefInsite.com follows all of the federal laws to stay in compliance with all privacy laws, which also means that they don't share or sell your information. Another important piece of information is that they are NOT a part of any big corporation or drug company, which I think makes a lot of people feel more comfortable.
Options for Patients:
- Free Diary:
Allows you to map where your pain is, record comments & get basic reports for your own use & to share with others if you choose.
- Premium Diary:
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Body Map: Pain location/intensity. (Track 3 pain levels) |
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Characteristics:Describe/define your pain. (For female users a menses tracking tool is included.)
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Symptoms: How you feel. Any effects of medication.
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Lifestyle: Impact on your work, finances, activities, life, etc.
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Medications & Treatment: Tracking and compliance.
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Notes: Record your comments.
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Reminders: Up to 3 per day.
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Reports+: Provider (Doctor) Ready Report (PRR) and customizable reports. Share securely online with your doctor and others. Print or save on your computer.
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Other Important Things to Know About Reliefinsite:
- You can start with the Free Diary and upgrade to the Premium Diary later.
- They are a patient reporting service & do NOT sell any medication.
- Diaries can be securely shared with your doctor, nurse, therapist, family members, friends; but this is totally under YOUR control.
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