This is a research study. Any data collected may be used for research and development by the university or its collaborators.

"To relieve an illness one must begin, then, by understanding the story.”
The Emperor of All Maladies; Siddhartha Mukherjee

Your pain has a story!



Pain - a subjective experience - can only be truly understood by the individual living with pain. However, you and others in pain have a unique story that can add value and knowledge to the scientific understanding of pain. In our research project, PainStory, we seek to detect and analyze common patterns or differences in pain expression.

Pain disorders often lead to a degradation in quality of life or well-being. We are using patients’ narratives to help understand patients’ pain experiences, and the activities and situations that make pain better or worse. We will look for common patterns across individuals, in both pain expression and narratives. Future work will lead to the creation of tools which pain clinicians will use in the effective diagnosis and treatment of pain.

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Your story will help scientists and health care providers to better understand how people talk about their pain.

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