Notice of Retraction: Pressure Mapping as a Complement in 3D Pain Drawings in the Back-Pain Assessment Process: A Proposed Method

Abstract

Over the years, an increasing number of the adult population suffers from some form of back pain during their lifetime, something that consecutively has a very important impact on a country's health, as well as economic systems. Traditional methods of diagnosing and treating such problems normally involve the collection and visualization of such medical information on a paper and a 2D representation of the human body, which have usually limited abilities in accurately recording and representing pain, making them in that way difficult and time consuming for both patients and doctors to use. In addition, the aforementioned methods are commonly considered to be subjective in nature, something that reduces their ability to be constituted as sufficient in determining whether someone suffers from pain or not. As a result, although in a previous work of ours [5] we have provided a solution to the visualization of pain issues, in this work we propose a prototype solution that attempts to address the aforementioned limitation of pain subjectivity by making use of the upcoming technique of pressure mapping.