Self-report pain rating scales were used, including the Memorial Pain Assessment Card, the FACES Scale (cartoon faces ranging from a happy smiling face to a sad tearful face), the COOP chart ...

When you go to the doctor in pain, you'll probably be asked to rate your discomfort on a scale of 0 to 10. But doctors say there may be a better way to assess pain.

Using a pain scale is helpful in describing how much pain you are feeling. You can use this chart (print it out) to rate your pain and keep a record of how well your medicine is working. Write the ...

A popular scale for measuring pain doesn’t work, but medicine still has no better alternative.

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.

Assessing mental-health distress doesn’t have a simple 1-10 scale, because mental health isn’t as straightforward as physical pain.

If you’ve ever been to a physician, then you’ve probably had to communicate your physical pain to a doctor by using a scale of 1 to 10. What’s the difference between a three and four, or a ...

The way we talk about pain with a zero-to-ten pain scale, may be holding us back from feeling better. Here's a better way to talk about pain now.

When patients cannot verbalize their pain, the pain assessment instrument Abbey Pain Scale is sometimes used instead—but it does not work for patients with cancer, according to a thesis.

But the zero-to-10 scale is ubiquitous today because of what was called a “pain revolution” in the ’90s, when intense new attention to addressing pain — primarily with opioids — was ...