While seemingly straightforward, rating pain on a scale of 0 to 10 is more complex than it appears, influenced by factors ...

But the zero-to-10 scale is ubiquitous today because of ... the director of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Pain Policy and Planning, told me. “But we didn’t have a good ...

There are special tools developed for different ages such as the “Faces Pain Scale-Revised”. Paediatric health professionals are trained to use age-appropriate vocabulary, because children ...

In reality, pain ratings are influenced by how much pain interferes with a person's daily activities, how upsetting they find ...