A pain scale chart can help people describe the pain they are feeling. Here are the different types, pros and cons, and a chart with faces.

But signs of pain in dogs are not always obvious. Sometimes dogs in pain may only appear slightly unsettled or distracted. This is where a dog pain scale — a tool to assess how much pain your ...

Meanwhile, pain became a part of patient satisfaction measures and reimbursements, especially with the onset of the Affordable Care Act. Reassessing the assessment of pain Dr. Chester ‘Trip’ ...

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 ...

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

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

I say almost because before I could answer the too-cherry nurse (bless her heart) held up a pain-scale chart with little colored faces on it. The green smiley face was a 0-1, no pain.

It almost seems like a throwback to another age. A patient shows up in a doctor’s office or emergency room with a stabbing pain. The doctor pulls out a pain-scale chart with a series of happy-to ...

The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale uses faces, numbers, and words to help a person communicate the severity of pain. Learn more about its uses here.

It's generally more painful to get a tattoo on a part of your body with many nerve endings, close to bones without much fat, or where your skin is very thin.

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 10.” I trained as a physician and have asked ...