Identify the negative and positive triggers associated with your pain. Learn about your pain, make plans, and put yourself on the path to recovery!

Brain Changer is an application for people who have had pain education in a clinic and want to harness that knowledge through a daily program. By using the app you will be able to recognise when your brain is escalating your status away from ‘safe’ and be prompted to counteract the danger signal with a stronger ‘safe’ signal. The app will also show your progress over time, helping identify patterns that you can use to re-calibrate your rehab program in consultation with your health care practitioners.

How to use the app

Scoring - Record the Halos that are live for you right now. Use the slider to give each of them a weight out of 9 according to how safe they feel right now with 9 being the safest. Look for Halos in:

• your mind
• your body and
• your environment.

Zombies tab – Zombies lurk in the same place as Halos. Record the Zombies that are live for you right now. Use the slider to give each of them a weight out of 9 according to how dangerous they feel right now with 9 being the most dangerous in:

• your mind
• your body and
• your environment.

Margin of Safety - the difference between your total Halo score versus your total Zombie score is your Margin of Safety. The bigger the margin of safety, the safer you will be. Your margin of safety is automatically generated for you as a coloured smiley face. A green smiley face means you have a solid margin of safety (+10), an amber smiley face means you have a slim margin of safety (+1-9) and a red smiley face means you have no margin of safety. On the review tab you have the option to accept your margin or safety with the YES button or go back and scale up your safety with the NO button.

Chart tab - here the graph shows you your Halos v Zombies scores over time. You can choose to see them over a day, week, month or all-time.

Plan - Make a plan customized for your day, centered on the activities that are most important for you and those activities that are you are struggling with due to your pain. Use Activity Cards to assign the key activities for your day, and use Safety Cards to create a strategy for how optimize those activities while minimizing pain and the way it interferes with those activities. You can select pre-made Activity and Safety Cards, or create your own!

Forms - The Brain Changer app is currently a part of the Brain Changer program, which is delivered by your coach, who is a clinician with expertise in chronic pain. The purpose of the forms if for your coach to gain insights into your pain, understand what the main contributors to your pain are, and what you can improve to recover from chronic pain.