Pain scales are tools for people to describe the level of pain they experience. Healthcare workers can also use pain scale charts to assess patients. There are several different pain scales, each with ...

The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating scale is a self-assessment tool that helps communication about physical pain. It uses a combination of faces, numbers, and words, providing multiple ways for a person ...

"On a scale from one to ten, how would you rate your pain?" is the standard question doctors ask to assess pain. The problem is that pain tolerances vary, and one person's "three" may be someone ...

If you're in the hospital or a doctor's office with a painful problem, you'll likely be asked to rate your pain on a scale of 0 to 10 – with 0 meaning no pain at all and 10 indicating the worst pain ...

It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ‘on a scale of 0-10, what’s your level of pain?’ comes up. Then, before ...

Asking patients in the emergency room to rate their pain on a visual scale or to rank it from zero to 10 doesn't really convey what the patient is feeling, suggests a study from Sweden. Pain scales ...

Do pain scales truly improve acute pain management in the ED? These results lead to a serious question regarding the true meaning of pain scores: "which scores on a single-item pain scale signify ...