This is postoperative day 3. This has been a good day so far. My pain ranges from a best of 1 to a worst of 3 out of 10 on a visual pain scale. I haven't taken anything but Tylenol® and Aleve ...

Visual analog score (VAS), consisting of a 10 cm (100 mm) line, with the anchor words at either end providing extreme descriptions of pain, is another widely used tool.

Because pain can’t be measured objectively, assessments must rely on a subjective numerical pain scale, or visual pain scale, which rates a patient’s pain on a scale of 0 to 10.

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.

Data from 12,090 patients with RA were analyzed, with demographic variables, treatments, functional status and pain scores recorded. The results showed that, compared with the SF-36 scale, the VAS ...