Hey Steve @sdykema I'm so glad you appreciated the video and related to it. Wow, 21 months are making more sense for you. That makes me happy for you! I felt the same way when I watched. It's pretty wild that our body's can be scientifically broke down to make sense of symptoms and outcomes.

Sorry, I don't have any tech ideas for symptom tracking, but @johnbishop may hunt something down for you. Please, John. 😊 I was old school when I used to track symptoms. A good ole college ruled notebook did the job.

Since graduating pain rehab, symptom tracking and symptom talk is off the table for me as it's considered a:

"Pain Behavior"

Which you learned from the video, a pain behavior is anything you do, say or think that reminds you or someone that you're having pain.

It was like a slap across the face when I first got to rehab and had to work on omitting pain behaviors. It became habitual learned behavior and was difficult to break the cycle. The goal in doing this is to stop accessing pain path ways in the brain which keep reinforcing pain. The more pain is ignored, the better chance of recreating new path ways. Have you researched neuroplasticity?

Oops, got off track...
There certainly is importance in tracking symptoms, triggers and flares to present for diagnosis and treatment plans. It's helpful diagnostic communication. Let's see what John may come up with for you...

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