Track and Pace activity diary

Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS Foundation Hospital Trust activity diary app

Welcome to the Birmingham Women’s and

Children’s NHS Foundation Hospital Trust activity diary app.

Track and Pace is an activity diary app is designed for young people who live with persistent pain. The app enables you to keep a record of your daily activities including sleep, going to school/college, exercising, having fun, mood by keeping a daily diary. You will find helpful resources, advice and information from the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Therapy Team. The app is designed to help you to monitor and understand the impact your daily routines and habits can have an impact your health and well-being. It is hoped by tracking and pacing your daily activities alongside direct therapy intervention you will understand and learn helpful coping strategies that will help you to return to living a fulfilling life doing everything you want to be able to do despite the pain.

Daily diary: add your dairy entry, designed to be quick and easy to enter. Select a date, time and activity including entries for exercise, sleep, self-care, school/college, fatigue, having fun and thoughts and feelings. Add additional information and receive helpful therapy tips/advice regarding that activity area.

Goals: Add personal goals that you want to achieve or goals that you have compiled with your therapy team. Once achieved you can check them as completed.

Links: This page provides information regarding pacing and tracking your routines and activities. There are also helpful links to books and you tube links regarding understanding persistent or chronic pain.

Motivation: We know how important it is to maintain your energy and enthusiasm to keep an activity diary and participate in a pain management programme. So being able to personalise this app with images or your own photos it is hope it will help to keep you motivated to keep on track with the diary. You may like quotes or song lyrics that mean a lot to you this is the place to keep them and they

Notifications: You can add reminders to ensure you remember to add your diary entries.