For chronic back pain patients
Vaely for chronic back pain.
The doctor asks you to rate your pain right now, on a scale of zero to ten. You give them a number. They write it down. The number does not capture that you have been at a 5 for fourteen of the last twenty mornings, that the new med dropped the worst days from a 9 to a 7 but did nothing for the average day, that the morning stiffness is the part you most need to talk about and you have already forgotten to bring it up.
Vaely is the log that turns one number into a timeline. Whisper the morning pain, the post-sit pain, the bedtime pain. The PDF you hand your doctor next month has the answer to the questions they were going to ask before they asked them.
The appointment problem
What your doctor needs.
What you forget to bring.
What primary-care physicians, pain specialists, and physiatrists actually need
- Pain pattern across the day — morning stiffness, post-sit aggravation, end-of-day fatigue pain.
- Severity arcs over weeks, not single snapshots.
- Functional limitations — sitting tolerance, walking tolerance, sleeping positions that work.
- Medication trial history — NSAIDs, muscle relaxants, gabapentin, opioids if applicable, with doses and side effects.
- Physical-therapy adherence and which exercises actually helped vs hurt.
- Sleep impact — pain-driven wakings, position changes during the night.
What every chronic back pain patient forgets
- Whether the morning stiffness is worse than it was a month ago, or you have just gotten used to it.
- The exact dose of the muscle relaxant that was discontinued and why.
- How many sleep positions you have cycled through trying to find one that works.
- Which PT exercises you actually do daily vs say you do.
- The pain score of an average day vs the worst day — and which one you reported last visit.
How Vaely fits
A record that does the remembering.
Whisper the symptom as it happens.
"lower back stiffness seven out of ten this morning, eased to four after the stretching, took 600mg ibuprofen at lunch" On-device AI extracts the dose, the symptom, the severity, the time. You review. The journal saves. The form goes away.
Watch the timeline draw itself.
By the next appointment you have weeks of structured entries — severity arcs, medication timelines, symptom-frequency charts. On AI-capable iPhones, weekly summaries and pattern observations surface what shifted, automatically and at no additional cost.
Hand over the Doctor Report.
One tap. A polished PDF — executive summary, charts, medication arcs, your verbatim journal at the back. Headed Personal Wellness Journal Summary — Not a Medical Document. Structured for the eleven minutes your primary-care physicians, pain specialists, and physiatrist has with you. Free tier: three reports per year. Pro: unlimited.
The privacy claim, briefly
Your chronic back pain log can never be subpoenaed from our servers.
Because there are no servers.
The AI runs on your iPhone. Your pain log lives in a local database we cannot read. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" — verified by Apple. Pain logs are sensitive in ways that have direct downstream effects on opioid-prescribing decisions, disability claims, and insurance underwriting. We removed the surface area entirely.
The next pain-clinic or PCP follow-up is on the calendar.
You can walk in ready.
Free to download. 3-day free trial on Pro. Reduced Rate at $29.99/year for anyone on disability or limited income — no questions asked.
Or read the free guide: How to talk to your doctor about chronic pain.