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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...