But the reduction in pain severity was "modest" across the board and reached only around the minimally important difference (MID) of 1 cm on a 10-cm visual analog scale on which 10 represents the ...

The concept of reducing these shades of pain to a single number dates back to the 1970s. But the zero-to-10 scale is ubiquitous today because of what was called a “pain revolution” in the ...

The study used a visual analog scale (VAS) to measure pain levels. This is a system where people rate their pain on a scale of 0–10, with zero indicating no pain and 10 indicating the worst pain ...

All those selected reported knee pain levels of 40 or higher on a 100 mm visual analog scale (VAS)—a tool used to measure subjective experiences such as pain where higher value corresponds to ...

But the zero-to-10 scale is ubiquitous today because of what was called a “pain revolution” in the ’90s, when intense new attention to addressing pain — primarily with opioids — was ...