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My Pain Alert Blog

My Story


Hello! My name is Gail Goldstein.  I am a researcher by nature. I love figuring out ways to help others communicate. I have been a Speech Language Pathologist since 1972.  

  As an innovator, I normed an auditory memory test for young children using words in their environment rather than numbers; words like car, dog, home, boy.

I wrote an NIH grant for a screening tool to support pediatric dentists in making  referrals to SLPs. The grant included norming and field testing in 11 dental offices. Later, I developed an alternative to thickened liquids called "precautionary liquids"  for new stroke patients in my acute care hospital. The protocol worked.

This "My Pain Alert" project is for patients  who could participate in their pain care by rating their pain; if it was easy and clear; and if they could learn the scale and practice with it before they really needed it.


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My Pain Alert Book cover with front of MPAS+ scale care.

My Pain Alert(R) Book  ePub [Android] is  available from KOBO books (USA). Button for our less than 8 mB android download is below. $3.99


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Apple Books

Apple Books

Apple Books

My Pain Alert Book cover.  Interior cover is word side of My Pain Alert Scale Plus.

This book is a download from Apple Books. Small enough-6.4mB to carry in your phone, ready for a calming look while waiting for the doctor or to help with any health emergency. 

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Original My Pain Alert Scale Communication Tool print book which helps train pain management communication.

Order My Pain Alert(TM) Scale Communication Tool as a print book.  This is our original 8.5 x 11 Print On Demand book.

 Ask ANY print book seller to order ISBN 9780998161006.  $7.99

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Get Help with a Communication challenge

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MPAS+ makes pain care easier for older people. Talking together about MPAS+ is effective in preserving pain words with dementia.

Here are the URLs for other countries:

Canada: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/my-pain-alert-book-1

Great Britain:

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/my-pain-alert-book-1

Australia:

https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/my-pain-alert-book-1

This book can be accessed from other countries as well. Please contact us.


FAQs

Get Help with a Communication challenge

Get Help with a Communication challenge

Books hold needed knowledge.

Are there other tools for parents to teach their little child how to manage pain?

 No.  We took on this creative challenge  because it was going to be years before our little guy had the working memory and experience base to use a typical pain scale to get his needs met.  Their body, their pain, their input.


Can I buy it in a store?

You can order it through any bookstore.  We would like our purse size revision and MPAS+ cards to be available in hospital gift shops.  Let your local shop manager know about My Pain Alert.

Get Help with a Communication challenge

Get Help with a Communication challenge

Get Help with a Communication challenge

Parent and child reading to create shared knowledge base.

An ASHA Speech Language Pathologist  can help your special learner get their pain management needs met using our tool.  Click on ASHA button.  Click on 3 line square, then  "the Public".  "Find a Professional" is on that ASHA page.

ASHA

Product Features

Easy to Use

Supported by Research

Supported by Research

For most users:  Start reading the My Pain Alert Stories which describe each pain level.  Get even more practice with the scale by learning sign language for each level name. 

Buy  a MPAS+ card set to practice with and share with your medical provider. The pain scale you use is your choice.

Supported by Research

Supported by Research

Supported by Research

Our field trial recruited 15 families: 10 who experiencing repeat hospitalizations; and 5 families experiencing ordinary health needs.  

ALL families reported less stress and faster solutions to pain events after reading My Pain Alert together.  Annotated bibliography of research section provides the basis for the methods used in our book

Less Caregiver Stress

Supported by Research

Less Caregiver Stress

Medical personnel depend on family and caregivers when someone can’t report their level of pain.  Practice with this book puts parent and child, or child and elder on the same page.  Our scale words are quickly understood by patients and doctors.   Email us to learn about our Binder designed for hospital or doctor office use.

What Parents Say

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Less Caregiver Stress

Read their own words - how this book helps their children in our first blog:  “Users Said.” We add blogs periodically about use with different patient groups:  stroke, autism, and alternative communication. Our latest "If you are sure" is directed at ordinary people.  Everyone needs help when in pain.

Children's Issues Blog

Free downloads from this site.

Buy My Pain Alert Scale Plus card below

Buy My Pain Alert Scale Plus card below

Use AAC, Augmentative Alternative Communication?  Download and

print "My Pain Alert icons" for your direct use. 

Want to score your Rx Effectiveness?

Print  "Pain Rx Effectiveness" 

Support your providers to get you the best care?  Print "Pain Symptom Notes.

Also included: a quiz For Readers, TOYs for children, and EASY instructions for use.

Family Downloads

Buy My Pain Alert Scale Plus card below

Buy My Pain Alert Scale Plus card below

Buy My Pain Alert Scale Plus card below

Meet the pain management needs of everyone in your family with our MPAS+ cards designed with a word side for older family members and pictures for kids.  All the basic questions in a "point to" format. Buy one card below or go to Etsy.com for a set of

four plastic cards for family and your doctor.  Write us with comments. info@mypainalert.com.  Payment through Square, PayPal or check. 

MPAS+ Card

My Pain Alert Products

Reviews

Free Downloads - see Kids and Family Downloads Too!

These downloads are about My Pain Alert.  Those on the Kids page are fun things to help kids learn. Those on the Family page help with medical  interaction.

MPA Brochure (2 sides 2021) (pdf)Download
My Pain Alert icons - Blue (pdf)Download
Simple My Pain Alert(R) Instructions (pdf)Download
My Pain Alert(R) Products 2021 (pdf)Download
Patients Benefit from AAC adapted Pain Scale (relevant research) (pdf)Download

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    Be Prepared

    Family holding hands together.

    The Goal is to Help Families with Medical event Preparations.

    The Goal is to Help Families with Medical event Preparations.

    The Goal is to Help Families with Medical event Preparations.

    Describing pain help needs is a medical event preparation skill everyone should have. A lot of pain happens at home. It is wise to work on this skill before loved ones need it desperately. This training tool is for family based pain care. Children near one year old have been able to sign “pain” and point where.

    Cover of our ebook, My Pain Alert Book, which makes communicating pain needs easier.

    My Pain Alert Book Download

    The Goal is to Help Families with Medical event Preparations.

    The Goal is to Help Families with Medical event Preparations.

    Available always ,as a small amount of mB in your cellphone, a pain scale designed to get the right pain care for your family. Our age neutral book reinforces the help words people need . Check KOBO and Apple Books.

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    The Goal is to Help Families with Medical event Preparations.

    Book Review Thank you

    In our appreciation for your effort in reviewing our book helping communicate about pain (something we all avoid), we will mail you an easy to sanitize MPA Scale +card  free of charge.  This is a world wide offer.  Contact us by this email or regular mail with the location of your review and your postal address.  

    gailgoldsteincccslp@gmail.com

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