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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — How bad does it hurt? The standard method for gauging pain looks for a 1-to-10 rating, but it turns out that one person's 3 may well be another person's 5. And that can make a ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Why is pain measured by numbers? I have severe pain, and doctors do not know what to do when I say it is an 11 on a scale of 1-10. My pain can't be measured by numbers. It depends on ...