What is the name of your organization?
ManagingLife
What is the name of your solution?
Manage My Pain
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Improving the lives of everyone living with pain with our clinically-validated digital solution.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Toronto, ON, Canada
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Canada
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
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What specific problem are you solving?
Chronic pain affects 20% of the population and is a leading cause of disability, healthcare utilization, and opioid use. Despite its cost, the way that pain is managed today is broken. More than 70% of people with chronic pain also live with anxiety/depression, negatively impacting the efficacy of interventions. Before medications, surgery, or physiotherapy, studies show that education and psychological support should be the first-line intervention for chronic pain. However, the vast majority of people with chronic pain receive neither - either due to an unwillingness to seek out support or due to a scarcity of pain psychologists who typically only practice in urban academic hospitals.
Many people with chronic pain struggle to convince their care-team that their pain is real to receive appropriate treatment. As a result, the quality of life of the person decreases over time and increases healthcare utilization (e.g. surgeries, ED visits) and the likelihood of opioid dependency.
What is your solution?
Manage My Pain is a clinically-validated digital solution that empowers people with chronic pain to self-manage and provide clinically-relevant information to their care team.
Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Manage My Pain prompts members to reflect on what they accomplished in their day that was meaningful, before asking them to describe their pain symptoms - a process that takes less than 60 seconds. Charts and graphs highlight patterns and trends. Members can generate reports for their care team that summarize their condition and support data-driven and objective treatment decisions.
As members engage with Manage My Pain, micro-learning educational modules and structured programs deliver pain psychology interventions. Given its focus on the psychological and self-management aspects of pain management, Manage My Pain is the perfect digital complement to existing treatments for chronic pain management, especially given that the status quo is that most people receive neither.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Over 120,000 people have used Manage My Pain from 130+ countries in its 7 supported languages. Collectively, our users have entered over 5 million pain records, making ours the the world's largest dataset of patient-reported pain information. With a rating of 4.7 out of 5.0, it is the top-ranked, most-downloaded, and the only one clinically validated to improve outcomes.
