ASAD: A Novel Audification Console for Assessment and Communication of Pain and Discomfort

Pain and discomfort are subjective perceptions that difficult to quantify. Various methods scales have been developed find an optimal manner describe them; however, these use with some categories of patients. Audification pain has utilized as feedback in rehabilitation settings enhance motor perception control, but not assessment communication settings. We present a novel tool, the Audification-console for Self-Assessment Discomfort (ASAD), assessing communicating through sound. The console is sequence increasing pitch frequencies triggered at press buttons displayed matrix can be associated discomfort. ASAD evaluated its ability capture communicate discomfort, following fatigue test lower limbs thirty healthy volunteers, compared most common self-reported used NHS. (The National Health Service (NHS) publicly funded healthcare system England one four systems United Kingdom.) This was qualitative, within subjects across groups experiment study. provides more accurate than other clearly recognizable patterns sounds, indicating increased significantly localized specific frequency ranges, thus easily different instances same subject. results suggest possible precise automatic health Future studies might assess if this easier patients or interpretation difficulties traditional tools.