The FPS–R rates pain on a scale from 1–10, with 0 representing “no pain” and 10 “very much pain.” Each level accompanies a facial expression, ranging from content to distressed.

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 ...

Assessing mental-health distress doesn’t have a simple 1-10 scale, because mental health isn’t as straightforward as physical pain.

The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale uses faces, numbers, and words to help a person communicate the severity of pain. Learn more about its uses here.

The DoD has launched a new pain rating scale that bears the familiar 0-10 numbers, smiley and frowny faces and green, amber and red stoplight colors meant to signal a patient's acute or chronic pain.

The result of his work is an alarmingly comprehensive pain index, ranking 83 insect stings on a spectrum of 1 to 4. For example, the red fire ant, native to South America is a 1: "Sharp, sudden ...

The system, called the "mouse grimace scale," codes movements like squeezing the eyes shut or bulging the nose as indications of pain, similar to those displayed in humans.

All of the other vital signs have tangible/objective measures. The pain scale (1-5 or 1-10), in my opinion, has been applied in an arbitrary manner.

The concept of reducing these shades of pain to a single number dates back to the 1970s. But the zero-to-10 scale is ...

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 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. 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 ...