The toggle function for Pain Assessment
Seeing the detail in how pain changes just became way easier. The pain assessment chart function in Navigate Pain separates information into layers. This innovative approach allows clinicians to view the details within a pain chart together or separately. The result is a cohesive and accurate pain picture. What's, is this pain assessment function? It's the Navigate Pain toggle function.
The pain assessment chart functions in Navigate Pain enable deeper insight and better communication. Each layer on a pain chart reflects a pain descriptor. These pain descriptors and the associated pain level can be toggled on or off in view mode. Most importantly, the layers provide an (indirect) measure of pain. Pain measures include the total area and pain level of the pain assessment descriptors. Thie measures are expressed in pixels and the total percent of the body chart. Views of the body chart include the front, back, left and right sides.
View the details of a pain assessment
As an example, numbness may be co-located with other symptoms. The co-location is not uncommon for radiating shoulder or low back pain or patients with diabetes. The total area of numbness or stabbing sensations can be mild, moderate or severe to complicate matters. Navigate Pain allows patients to indicate the intensity of sensations and symptoms and how they are co-located onto one pain chart.
In prior approaches, like pen and paper, critical details are masked if patients draw only pain or multiple overlapping sensations on one chart. With Navigate Pain, these details are made readily visible. The toggle function in Navigate Pain displays all symptoms together or separately. As a result, researchers and clinicians can view, extract, and understand the patient's pain chart as a whole or in layers. The toggle functions allow for each area of pain for each pain descriptor to be viewed individually. In the end, the pain assessment can be captured and easily viewed.
Acquire measures from a pain assessment
There are a few more unique benefits to Navigate Pain's toggle function. One benefit is the ability to quantify each of these sensations separately. Quantification of pain is always an indirect measure, yet indirect measures can give a clinician an edge with the right mindset. A wiser starting point during a first consult would save time, facilitate clinical reasoning and help to trigger the right questions. Patient's engagements will increase and, visualized progress can be encouraging (e.g. keep exercising). On a more practical note, the indirect pain measures serve as documents about a patient's progress or treatment strategy.
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