A pain journal your physio can actually read.
Twenty seconds a day: score the pain, note the symptoms, capture what made it better or worse. InjuryLog turns those entries into a trend line and a clean one-page summary for your next appointment.
Why keep a pain journal at all?
Pain lies to memory. A bad night colours the whole week; a slow improvement disappears entirely. A daily record is the only honest witness: it shows whether you are actually trending better, what reliably triggers a flare, and how sleep, activity and treatment line up with the pain.
It is also the fastest way to a useful appointment. The first questions any doctor or physio asks, how long, how bad, what makes it worse, are answered before you sit down.
From diary to doctor, in one tap.
Paper diaries get forgotten in kitchen drawers. InjuryLog turns your daily entries into a one-page Physio Visit Pack: your pain trend, symptoms, history and the questions worth asking, ready to hand over at the appointment.
Every entry ties to a specific injury, so a sore knee and a bad back never blur into one vague story.
What goes in a good pain diary?
The useful core is five fields, and InjuryLog asks for exactly these in its daily body scan.
Pain score, 0 to 10
The backbone of the journal. One number a day, scored at roughly the same time, is enough to draw the trend that memory cannot hold.
Where it hurts, exactly
Tapped on a body map rather than written in words, so "the outside of my right knee" stays consistent from day one to day ninety.
Better, same or worse
The single most clinically useful trend. A pain that swings daily but trends better over two weeks is a very different story from one drifting worse.
Symptoms alongside the pain
Swelling, stiffness, sharp pain, instability, numbness. These change what a clinician thinks, so they belong in the record, not just in your memory of a bad day.
What you did, and what helped
The triggers and relievers: the long drive, the ice, the rest day, the new shoes. Patterns here are where treatment decisions come from.
Start your pain journal today.
Free on iOS, twenty seconds a day, and a record your clinician will thank you for.
Free to start. Your data stays yours.