“Many pain patients will say their pain can’t be measured on the 0-to-10 scale and that it is too challenging to describe their pain using words,” says Charles Jonassaint, Ph.D., M.H.Sc ...

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 ...

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 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Over the past two years, a simple but baffling request has preceded most of my encounters with medical professionals: “Rate your pain on a scale of zero to ...

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

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.

Mice in pain have facial expressions that are very similar to human facial expressions, according to scientists who have developed the “mouse grimace scale.” The pain expressions of mice could ...