Aplicação para estudo de dor crónica e relação com o tempo

Um uso engenhoso da tecnologia (é uma simples app móvel mas a ideia é genial), da comunidade e o estudo de relações dos dados recolhidos (dor) com o tempo:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37301579
Citando:
"Because the app also asks people about their mood, this more detailed analysis will also reveal whether the weather has an affect beyond simply making people happier.
For the moment, however, even a preliminary month-by-month overview of the combined pain data from Leeds, Norwich and London - alongside the general weather pattern for those cities - shows that there is more to this much-discussed interaction than we might expect.
"This is just a quick snapshot," said project lead Will Dixon, a rheumatologist and professor of digital epidemiology at the University of Manchester.
"But one interesting thing it does is [challenge] that really common belief... that joints get worse if it's cold. Actually, the pain got worse [again] from April to June, and that was the one time when the temperature really went up.
"So it doesn't fit with that really common hypothesis.""

Quase metade da população adulta do RU (28 M) pode estar a sofrer de dor crónica

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/06June/Pages/Almost-half-of-all-UK-adults-may-be-living-with-chronic-pain.aspx


"The researchers used data from 19 studies that included almost 140,000 adults. They extrapolated the results to come up with the estimate that around 43% of people in the UK experience chronic pain [pain for more than 3 monthes]. More adults aged 75 or over (62%) experienced pain than those aged 18 to 25 (14.3%).
There are limitations to this study that affect the reliability, the main one being that this type of review can only be as good as the included studies. In this case, there weren't many good-quality studies and there was a lot of variation in their findings."

Mecanismo da dor cada vez melhor compreendido

... O conhecimento que foi usado nesta senhora (que nasceu sem sentir dor - parecer giro mas é o suficiente para a senhora se queimar ou cortar e não sentir nada, colocando a sua vida em risco a cada passo que dá na vida), pode agora ser usado no tratamento de doenças como a dor crónica (sentir dor am algum lado 24h sobre 24h):


http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/woman-feels-pain-for-the-first-time-at-39-after-being-born-with-rare-condition-a6762551.html