The most common scale has been around for 50 years. It asks people to rate their pain from 0 (no pain) to 10 (typically "the worst pain imaginable"). This focuses on just one aspect of pain—its ...

While seemingly straightforward, rating pain on a scale of 0 to 10 is more complex than it appears, influenced by factors ...

Studies have shown that these efforts are undermined by biases that have led the medical community to consistently ...

Unfortunately, in up to 30–40% of patients that chronically consume opioids, opioid-induced hyperalgesia occurs. [59] This condition refers to a generalized and increasing pain sensitivity that ...

A large scale study by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine has found that patient pain upon arrival to the Emergency Department (ED) as well as the ...

A tool that was once used to examine the intensity and frequency of pain in dementia patients following their death has been revamped.

A patient whose pain has receded but who remains uncomfortable may feel stuck: there’s no number on the zero-to-10 scale that can capture their physical experience. Increasingly, pain scientists ...

This article will attempt to describe the assessment of pain in older patients, as well as differences in the pain experience between the old and young. Physiological and pharmacological ...