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Painimation is personalized to the patient and his or her pain thresholds, there are no limitations, maximums or minimums.
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Summary Through a human-centered design study, that involves active consultation with people/stakeholders during all phases of research and development, a pain communication and assessment tool was designed that the innovators call Expressive Painimation. This novel, electronic clinical pain assessment tool utilizes a timebased medium, animation, that can be calibrated by patients to express the dynamic and multidimensional aspects of their pain experience. Painimation is a tool that can be used in the health care setting at the point of care, or by patients at home to record their pain symptoms remotely. Painimation does not replace the patient-provider conversation but rather facilitates it by supporting patient’s verbal description of their pain with a visual representation. Painimation does not rely on words as descriptors of pain, so language is no longer a barrier to care.