Asking patients in the emergency room to rate their pain on a visual scale or to rank it from zero to 10 doesn't really convey what the patient is feeling, suggests a study from Sweden. Pain scales ...

"It's really sore," my (Josh's) five-year-old daughter said, cradling her broken arm in the emergency department. "But on a ...

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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 ...

Pain intensity is typically measured through verbal rating (VRS), numerical rating (NRS), and visual analog scales (VAS); these all require spatial cognition. Prior work has shown that chronic pain ...

Joshua Pate has received speaker fees for presentations on pain and physiotherapy. He receives royalties for children's books. Dale Langford has received honoraria and research support from the ...