Pain and Memory Issues
Our cards are 5" x 8" polyester
Shown here are MPAS+cards and our My Pain Alert(R) Plus Binder . The Binder is designed for nursing care patient group discussions providing practice requesting help for chronic pain control.
Everyone can use this book
Painful accidents can happen at any time. It is good to be prepared with My Pain Alert Book ebook in your cellphone. It is known that children have Pain+Memory Problems. Many struggle with 0-10 and emoji pain scales. My Pain Alert is better for their chronic pain control.
Products to Help Healthcare Communication
Healthcare staff can record a 10 point pain scale number from use of this basic 5 level card by a person experiencing Pain+Memory Problems.
The Truth - There are Flaws in Healthcare
Some Patients in Pain Struggle with Getting the Needed Pain Care
It can simply be the the stress of you or your loved one experiencing significant pain plus memory problems, which makes coming up with the right descriptive word or number difficult. This adds more stress as you look at the healthcare provider, and hope they can figure out your issue to get you relief. This situation is bad when someone loses words from stroke; it is worse if the cause is increasing dementia.
Cancer, brain injury from accidents, neurological diagnoses, and effects of other health conditions like hearing loss or vision impairment can all make the task of communicating when in pain more difficult. My Pain Alert(R) Book has American Sign Language and a song with prompts for easily understood responses to the question: Are You Hurting?
This is the only Americans with Disabilities Act friendly Pain Scale. Our goal is to make it available, so people who need it can use it to get help with their pain.
No Affiliations – This is the project of three women, one of whom was an Army Reserve Combat Medic. It is NOT funded or affiliated with a: rehabiliation center, hospital, university, handicap service provider, or government agency. We believe that they will all step up in some fashion in time. We know when these products are used, significant cost savings and stress relief can occur.
Our creative team: an acutely ill mother of three, one son with a chronic pain condition from birth; a speech therapist who worked with populations which had been seriously underserved, and/or were not previously served at all; and an art executive who gave up her income to stay home and care for a mother with pain+memory problems. We have all lived with pain needs communication frustration.