A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. Here are the different types and how they’re used.

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.

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.

Changes Clinical Practice: When using a behavioral pain-rating scale to evaluate a preschool child's postoperative pain, one should try to assess the child's level of anxiety, especially if they ...

Generally speaking, the male pain scale went from 1 to 10, while the female scale went to 12. Bartoshuk says that suggests that a man's "4" might be equivalent to a woman's "3" when it comes to pain.