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Arto Holopainen's Forum Nokia Blog
Wireless pain monitoring
ahoccc | 08 March, 2009 23:31
Pain is highly subjective to the individual experiencing it. A definition that is widely used in nursing was first given as early as 1968 by Margo McCaffery: "Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does".[Wikipedia]
Pain is affecting everyone’s life time to time and it is very difficult to measure and diagnose.
However, some pain forms or should I say the prognosis of it can be estimated. For example pain due to lack of proper ergonomics in your work (especially if you are an office worker) can lead to low back pain as well as neck and shoulder area pain. One cause for the pain can be muscle stiffness.
One might ask the question: “Do you find yourself rubbing your neck and shoulders during or after work?” So you should pay attention to ergonomics and your working posture, that’s for sure.
How could technology (especially mobile) help with this?
Well, you could always use following setup.
Wireless EMG sensors connected to your mobile. Mobile follows your muscle cumulative load and warns if it starts to go too high. Basically informs you to take a break. Simple and effective, isn’t it?
And if you are wondering about the inconvenience to wear sensors, you can read my previous blog about using smart clothes for this here.
As you perhaps noted, muscle monitoring does not measure actually the pain but rather the possible cause of it. However, if we could also have tools for the constant monitoring and recording of subjective feelings of pain. This would give lot of information how the pain is affecting person’s life and in best case give information that could enhance the quality of life.
Basically this means that person inputs his/her pain level using e.g. with some standardized pain scale for the record. This recording gives lot of information for caring personnel to act properly with the person’s treatment. And what would be obvious tool for this that people are carrying almost all the time? Mobile phone.
This leaves us again to new very interesting mobile health area!
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