The Potential of Wearable, Modular Devices in Monitoring Functional Clinical Metrics in Patients Suffering from Chronic Pain.

IF 3.2 2区医学 Q2 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY Current Pain and Headache Reports Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI:10.1007/s11916-025-01367-2

Jason L Chang, Parker Nguyen, Qing Zhao Ruan, Daniel J Pak, Christopher L Robinson, Moises Dominguez, Jaspal R Singh, Amitabh Gulati

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Purpose of review: This review assesses the role of wearable technologies in pain management, emphasizing their capability to transcend subjective pain evaluations with objective functional outcome tracking. We explore the types and veracity of health metrics wearable devices track, illustrating how this technological evolution can significantly enhance patient care in the context of chronic pain prevention and management.

Recent findings: The advancements in modular wearable technology offer new avenues to track a variety of health outcomes, including aerobic capacity, physical activity, stress, and sleep quality. This provides objective measurements that can aid in the management of chronic conditions and can offer a more comprehensive assessment of a patient's pain and function. Although the initial approach to pain management that emphasized pain as the fifth vital sign had unintended devastating consequences, leveraging wearable technology for objective outcomes tracking presents an opportunity to optimize pain management strategies. Wearable technologies capture functional metrics that provide insight into many aspects of the biopsychosocial model of pain. Utilizing function as the key performance indicator has the potential to improve treatment outcomes and, ultimately, patient care.

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Current Pain and Headache Reports CLINICAL NEUROLOGY-

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6.10

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2.70%

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6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： This journal aims to review the most important, recently published clinical findings regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and management of pain and headache. By providing clear, insightful, balanced contributions by international experts, the journal intends to serve all those involved in the care and prevention of pain and headache. We accomplish this aim by appointing international authorities to serve as Section Editors in key subject areas, such as anesthetic techniques in pain management, cluster headache, neuropathic pain, and migraine. Section Editors, in turn, select topics for which leading experts contribute comprehensive review articles that emphasize new developments and recently published papers of major importance, highlighted by annotated reference lists. An international Editorial Board reviews the annual table of contents, suggests articles of special interest to their country/region, and ensures that topics are current and include emerging research. Commentaries from well-known figures in the field are also provided.