You might have seen a pain scale in your doctor's office before. One common type shows a series of numbered cartoon faces moving from 0 (smiling and pain-free) to 10 (weeping in agony.) ...

Share on Pinterest For children, pain scales using images of faces are commonly used. A child may be presented with the images of eight different faces with various expressions. The child chooses ...

Ranking pain isn’t a simple thing. The standard scale that goes from one to 10, often accompanied by smiley faces that become increasingly distressed, has been lampooned by many as being ...

You might have seen a pain scale in your doctor's office before. One common type shows a series of numbered cartoon faces moving from 0 (smiling and pain-free) to 10 (weeping in agony.) ...

Pain scales with facial expressions, such as the FPS–R and the Wong-Baker scale, are among the most popular options for describing or rating pain. The FPS–R rates pain on a scale from 1–10 ...

The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating scale is a self-assessment tool that helps communication about physical pain. It uses a combination of faces, numbers, and words, providing multiple ways for a ...

October 6, 2010 — There are no reasons to switch from one faces scale to another when one of the scales is in use in clinical practice, but for research purposes, the Faces Pain Scale-Revised is ...

If you’ve ever been in the hospital recovering from a surgery, you know the health care providers will ask you to “rate” your pain on a scale of 1 to 10, so they can administer pain relief ...