Chronic Pain Research
Pain is continuous. Your data collection should be too.
Weekly pain surveys average away the peaks and valleys that define a patient's experience. Forma Health captures pain as it fluctuates, giving your study the granularity it needs to detect real treatment effects.
Custom demo · Set up in under 1 hour
The problem
Why traditional data collection falls short
Pain is highly variable within a single day. A weekly NRS score can't distinguish between a patient who had one terrible day and six good ones versus seven mediocre days. Your efficacy signal gets buried.
What patients log
Observations configured for chronic pain
Capture pain levels, functional impact, medication use, and flare triggers throughout the day — not just at weekly check-ins.
- Pain intensity (multiple daily readings)
- Pain location and type
- Functional impact (mobility, sleep, mood)
- Medication timing and dosage
- Flare triggers and duration
- Activity levels
- Sleep quality
What you get
Research-ready data points
- Intra-day pain variability curves
- Medication-response timing analysis
- Function-pain correlation data
- Flare frequency and duration metrics
- Sleep-pain interaction patterns
Frequently asked
Chronic Pain research questions, answered
- How does Forma handle validated pain instruments like NRS, BPI, and PROMIS?
- Forma delivers validated pain instruments (NRS, BPI, PROMIS pain interference/intensity short forms) on protocol-defined schedules while capturing real-time pain logs between scheduled assessments.
- Can Forma be used for ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in pain research?
- Yes. Forma is purpose-built for EMA: short, context-aware prompts multiple times per day capture pain in the moment, avoiding recall bias inherent in weekly retrospective surveys.
- Does Forma capture opioid and rescue medication use?
- Forma logs timing, dosage, and patient-reported response for scheduled and rescue medications, enabling medication-adherence and PK/PD-adjacent analyses without chart review.
- Is Forma appropriate for a chronic pain patient registry?
- Yes. Forma powers longitudinal patient registries for chronic-pain populations, producing structured datasets suitable for RWE, natural history, and label-expansion programs.
How it works
15 seconds of speech. 25 data points.
Patients describe their chronic pain experience naturally — Forma extracts structured, timestamped, coded data in real time. No surveys. No recall bias.
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