Some of the science we have used to create the MyPain® app
The Power of Instant Habits and Nudges
Nobel prize winning research and our years of experience in treating people with chronic pain is now available as the MyPain® app.
It has all the tools to break several automatic unhelpful patterns of physical behaviours and emotions that arise due to chronic pain, and uses the power of habits and choices to make the right decisions for long terms success!
The MyPain® app connects people with chronic pain to healthcare professionals, simplifies cutting edge scientific research, and makes pain management fun and easy.
Thinking Fast and Slow by D Kahneman
Click on the image to listen to Dr Kahneman’s Google talk
Thinking Fast and Slow
Thinking is hard work! Its even more challenging if you have chronic pain.
The drugs used to treat chronic pain can make it very hard to think clearly and straight.
For survival, your brain is wired to use system one or ‘fast thinking’. This is based on ‘rule of thumb’ thinking (Heuristic biases) which sometimes leads to wrong judgements and decisions about things including health and pain. This causes a lot of distress and struggle with things in life, including pain and its effects.
Drugs, constant pain, tiredness along with poor sleep, make it hard to use ‘system two’, which is the lazy system that can overcome the occasional errors made by system one. Most of the time system two just approves what system one comes up with, at times approving a wrong choice to manage your pain or a situation.
Healthcare professionals use our technology to help people with chronic pain use ‘System one’ thinking more often. This enables them to learn how to minimise biases and unhelpful thinking styles to make the right judgements and decisions in their life.
Preciting Health Behaviour
Predicting Health Behaviour
We researched the theory behind applying the most common health behaviour change models.
We then simplified how we could use this science to help people with chronic pain change unhelpful behaviours, such as relying heavily on medicines and drugs that no longer work, through to more helpful behaviours like making relaxation, stretches and exercises part of their regular routines.
The healthcare professionals play a crucial role in helping people with chronic pain overcome the toughest challenge in this four stage journey. Helping them make up their mind about change, and constantly motivating them to keep going when things seems hard.
The MyPain app takes care of all stages for behaviour change from planning, action, and reinforcement of positive change.
Tiny Habits in Pain Management
Making habits is easier when they are bite-sized and are celebrated.
We worked on using these powerful tools for pain management in the MyPain® app