Patients should be able to use images and metaphors alongside traditional medical scales to describe their pain to doctors, a new study says. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email.

The American Pain Society went as far as copyrighting the phrase. But unlike the other vital signs — blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and breathing rate — pain had no objective scale. How to ...

The way we measure pain is often on a scale from one to 10. How bad do you feel? It's not a perfect system. Pain is subjective, and one person's 10 could be another's three.

As a young doctor joining the “pain revolution,” I probably asked patients thousands of times to rate their pain on a scale of zero to 10 and wrote many scripts each week for pain medication ...

As a young doctor joining the "pain revolution," I probably asked patients thousands of times to rate their pain on a scale of zero to 10 and wrote many scripts each week for pain medication, ...

Asking patients to rate their pain on a scale from zero to 10 is “a simple but baffling request,” Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, wrote in a July 2 opinion piece for KFF Health News. Dr. Rosenthal, a ...