The parts nobody else sees
Chronic back pain is daily work: judging how long you can sit or stand, keeping up the home exercises on your own, and trying to remember at the visit which weeks were bad. Healya is built by people who know what that load feels like.
Sitting or standing in one place for too long can make the pain worse.
A bad night of sleep usually means a worse day of pain, and a worse day means another bad night.
Most people get home exercises from physical therapy, and they are easy to skip once the course ends.
Your numbers already tell a story
Healya connects your sleep, pain score, days with limited activity, morning stiffness, your home exercises and what changed that day so the story is visible, to you and to your physiatrist.
Hours of sleep you logged, averaged each week over twelve weeks, with the week the holiday stock arrived marked. It sat between 6.8 and 7.1 for the eight weeks before it and has come down every week since, to 4.8 now, which is the thing to show your physiatrist rather than explain from memory.
Your pain score, 0 to 10, averaged each month over twelve months, with the month you started physical therapy marked. It came down from 5 that month to 3 by April and held at 3 through July, after the course ended, then crept to 4 in August and 5 in September and is 6 now: the climb began before the holiday stock arrived, which is worth showing.
Days with limited activity each month over eight months as bars and as a line, with the month the holiday stock arrived marked. They came down to 3 a month in June and July, climbed to 4 in August and 6 the month the stock arrived, and are 9 now, which is the question for the next visit: the lifting, or the exercises.
A flare you are waiting out, a course of physical therapy behind you, or a bad month you are trying to explain: your pain score is data, and Healya can track it.
How Healya helps with chronic back pain
The score you give the day, kept for you
A thirty-second check-in, good day or bad, with your pain score, hours of sleep, morning stiffness, the exercises done and the medicines taken, so the month sits on one timeline you and your physiatrist can read instead of a memory of the worst week.
Bad weeks next to what came before them
Lifting, a long drive, hours at a desk, skipped exercises, short nights and what changed that day, logged next to each pain score, so the question of what a bad month lines up with has a record behind it that you and your physiatrist can read together.
A message drafted when you do not want to wait
When something in your record changes and should not wait for the next visit, a pain score that stays higher than it has been or a stretch of bad weeks with no clear reason, Healya drafts a message to your physiatrist's office with the weeks behind it, for you to send. It never sends anything on its own.
A summary your physiatrist can scan
A year of sleep, pain scores, days with limited activity, morning stiffness, your exercises and your medicines on one page, with the questions worth asking. Fifteen-minute visits go further when the story is already organized.
No wearable required. A thirty-second daily check-in is enough.
Reports written for chronic back pain
Three kinds, each built from your own record. A summary before every visit with your physiatrist. A report on how your months are actually going. And a plain-language digest of new chronic back pain research, on a schedule you choose.
Questions people with chronic back pain ask us
Clear answers about what Healya does with your data, and what stays between you and your care team.
Bring your story together
Your sleep, pain score, days with limited activity and morning stiffness in one place before your next appointment. Free for a week, no card required.