A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. A person usually self-reports their pain using a specially designed scale, sometimes with the help of a doctor, parent, or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"It's really sore," my (Josh's) five-year-old daughter said, cradling her broken arm in the emergency department. "But on a scale of 0 to 10, how do you rate your pain?" asked the nurse. My daughter's ...

Ranking pain isn’t a simple thing. The standard scale that goes from one to 10, often accompanied by smiley faces that become increasingly distressed, has been lampooned by many as being difficult to ...