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We have been working on a nice upgrade to Chronic Pain Tracker which will be labeled as v3.1. This release has a great combination of enhanced stability and performance PLUS some exciting new features including: 5 NEW Trackers Pain Onset – Rate the onset speed of your pain using a customizable 1-5 scale Pain Duration – Rate the duration of your pain using a customizable 1-5 scale Other Symptoms – Identify non-pain symptoms you may be experiencing in conjunction with your pain Milestones – Identify key points in your medical or pain treatment history (eg. surgeries, medication changes, injuries, etc). … Continue reading

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Update 3.0.6 has now been released

3.0.6 Release Notes ADDED – Pain Map Painter – The Eraser tool is back! ADDED - Pain Map Painter – Drawing path smoothing option. Now enabled by default, this option will reduce the number of points contained within the drawn path while still maintaining the shape of the desired segment. This helps reduce database space and processing time. (Available only on devices running iOS 4.3 and above) ADDED - Pain Map Painter – Path Overlap Detection. Now enabled by default, this option will scan your pain map to detect any paths that are fully covered by one or more other paths in … Continue reading

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Testing Medication Effectiveness in Relieving Pain

Summary Report - Medication Taken - Pain Reduction Analysis

The Challenge of Evaluating Pain Relief Efficacy Let’s face it, most people dealing with Chronic Pain take some type of pain relief medication – often multiple types. But do you know if they are really working? And when your doctor suggests trying a new medication to see if it is more effective than your current drug – how can you tell? Unfortunately, most of the time you can’t objectively say whether one drug is working better than another, or even if either of the drugs is having a real impact on your pain levels. To get truly subjective data on … Continue reading

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Keeping your private comments private

Example of a Private Comment

Let’s face it, if you’re suffering from chronic pain, you deal with some very difficult situations. The non-stop pain, immobility, frustration with our doctors, mental fogginess, etc all combine to really give us a tough time. Often you want to capture those moments or thoughts in your Diary Entry via the Comments Tracker, and that is definitely what it’s there for. But sometimes, you might hesitate adding comments of a more personal nature, or perhaps comments critical of your doctor or her staff. If you’re supplying your doctor copies of your Diary Reports, you probably don’t want them reading about … Continue reading

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Chronic Pain Tracker v3.0.5 is now available

Today we are releasing v3.0.5 of Chronic Pain Tracker. We encourage all current users to upgrade to this version. This update includes a couple new features plus several bug fixes, including: 3.0.5 Release Notes ADDED – New Pain Location Map template for migraine headache pain tracking ADDED – General Comment preference flag to either show or not show comments marked as private in Diary History and Summary Reports FIXED – When using the Open/Close buttons during the display of a Summary Report on slower devices, the app can appear to hang. It will now show a progress indicator while the … Continue reading

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Consistent pain? Make entries simpler with “Copy Last”

Copy Last button in Tracker header

For many of us, the locations and descriptions of our pain may not change too much from hour to hour or even day-to-day. In those cases, you can make the process of creating a Diary Entry more efficient by using the “Copy Last” functionality we’ve built into Chronic Pain Tracker. Let’s take a look at how it works… One of the easiest ways of using this functionality is to use the Copy button that is included in the header section of each Tracker item. When you tap the button, CPT searches for the last entry using this Tracker and copies … Continue reading

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Update v3.0.4 has been released

…and is now available for download from the App Store. A key addition to this version is the enhanced Medication Tracker graphs in the Summary Report. We now include a Pain Reduction analysis that looks at pain levels following the taking of a medication and seeing whether pain goes up or down because of it. We have a big right up about this here if you want more information. This update includes several bug fixes and performance enhancements. Here’s the release notes list of items: ADDED – Add graph to Medication report that describes impact on pain levels over time … Continue reading

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Understanding all those report graphs

SummaryReport_Medication

Have you wondered about some of those graphs that appear on the Summary Report? Couldn’t quite interpret where or how the data you’re seeing was generated? If so, then we’ve got a great new page for you. Check out this Report Graphs: In-depth discussion that will take you through each of the many graphs appearing in the Summary & Analysis Report format. Even if you have a pretty good handle on the many graphs CPT offers, we do suggest you take a look at the section talking about the Medication Tracker graphs. We’ve added a new graph in v3.0.4 which … Continue reading

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Update v3.0.3 has been released

CPT v3.0.3 has just been posted in the App Store. This version only addresses a couple of bugs, so if you are not affected by these, then you can choose to wait for the next upgrade before updating. Those running CPT on iPod Touch devices, particularly if running iOS 4.2.1, are urged to apply the upgrade as this version addresses a problem some of those users were seeing with the Pain Location Mapping Tracker tool. Also, if you utilize the CSV export functionality, we have a minor fix for you as well. Check it out. It should be available in the … Continue reading

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A Reminder about Diary Entry Reminders

Diary Reminder Sample Message

For those of you that haven’t started exploring the Settings tab in CPT 3.0, you might not have noticed that we’ve added a reminder mechanism to help you collect timely pain information. This tool enables you to set one or more daily reminders which will notify you when its time to fill out a Diary Entry. In fact, the reminder will even create the Diary Entry object and present it to you with a single click on the notification alert. We’ve put together a short video tutorial on the Diary Entry Reminders. Have a look and soon you’ll be creating … Continue reading

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