PainTrace: What Your Pet is Really Feeling

Most pet owners know the agonizing stress of wondering if their dog or cat is in pain and not showing significant signs. We love our pets as much as any human member of our family, but unlike our spouses, kids, and other loved ones, their ways to ask for help when they’re hurting are limited. Figuring out what they might be feeling is a terrible guessing game. With PainTrace technology, however, it doesn’t have to be!

PainTrace is a wearable technology that measures your pet’s biosignals to quantify their pain levels. Applicable for both acute and chronic pain, this monitoring system uses skin-mounted sensors to generate information about what kind of pain your pet is in, helping veterinarians to more effectively care for your furry friend and drastically improving their quality of life!

Improving Veterinary Care

Medical care is, in its most simple form, based around one question: “Where does it hurt?” When the patient can’t answer that question, diagnosis and treatment become much more complicated. PainTrace, with its sophisticated biosignal tracking technology, works to fill that gap for cats, dogs, and other species.

By providing veterinarians with accurate scientific readings about an animal’s pain, PainTrace can revolutionize the way health conditions in animals are diagnosed, treated, and monitored. These case studies, for instance, show how PainTrace can be used to assess medication efficacy and provide diagnostic feedback after a physical exam. Everything from prescribing adequate medications for animals following operations to monitoring chronic pain for spikes and changes suddenly becomes easier and more accurate with the help of PainTrace in veterinary medicine.

PainTrace and the Coerenza Approach

The word Coerenza means coherence, and in veterinary medicine, the Coerenza Approach is a healthcare principle that prioritizes looking at the whole of an animal’s health and wellbeing, including five major pillars: Exercise, Enrichment, Nutrition, Responsibility, and Environment.

By providing veterinarians and pet owners with a direct window into an animal’s experiences as well as objective and scientific measurements of pain, PainTrace is a technology that is highly supportive of the Coerenza Approach. Not only does it help caregivers and medical professionals alike to better understand the animal, but it vastly improves the animal’s care and medical treatment, overall improving a pet’s quality of life.