TrainPain - a new science based digital product designed to improve mental and emotional well-being for people living with neuropathic and fibromyalgia pain
Trainpain is a unique project aimed at examining the feasibility and effectiveness of a gamified sensory perceptual training programme for patients with fibromyalgia. Using a remote app-based somatosensorial training programme the project will examine changes in pain perception. The role of catastrophising, depression and anxiety will also be examined in relation to pain.
There is no known cure for fibromyalgia and pharmacological pain relief is only reported in a minority of patients. Perceptual training has been shown to reduce the impact of fibromyalgia along with other chronic pain conditions. Specifically, in fibromyalgia temporal discrimination may be altered; however, no study has examined training in this domain as a moderator for changes in pain.
There is a need for tools that fibromyalgia patients can use independently at home to manage their chronic pain and self-care. Thus, Trainpain offers a novel digital platform to enable patients to perform gamified perceptual training at home.
