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 10.” I trained as a physician and have asked ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

The Defense Department has a new tool to help military health care providers tackle one of the most complex challenges facing patients: pain. The DoD has launched a new pain rating scale that bears ...

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort. For years at Orchard Care Homes, a 23‑facility dementia-care chain in northern England, Cheryl Baird ...

I have been in pain every day since I was 20 years old because of what I now know to be a genetic disorder of my connective tissue. As a result, I’ve been asked approximately one zillion times by ...

Attempt to obtain the patient's self-report, the single most reliable indicator of pain. Do not assume that a patient cannot report pain; many cognitively impaired patients are able to use a ...

Joshua Pate has received speaker fees for presentations on pain and physiotherapy. He receives royalties for children's books. Dale Langford has received honoraria and research support from the ...