![]() ![]() It ranks pain based on ability to perform day to day actions, which is beneficial for many. It uses sets of 2 numbers, for a total of 5 categories of pain. It has the benefit of strong contrast for people with vision problems and color blindness. This one also uses faces and descriptions. A brief description of each pain level is given.Ī black and white version that’s about on par. The pain is sectioned into 4 areas, from no pain to minor pain to moderate pain to severe pain. Pain scale using 0-10 numerical scale as well as faces ranging from a yellow “happy” face at 0 to a red, sad, crying face at 10. Pain is much more nuanced than this, and it doesn’t really give any help deciding if your pain is a 1 vs a 3, 4 vs 6, or 7 vs 10. It sets everything from mild to tolerable together, distressing to intense together, and very intense to unimaginable/unspeakable together. It still uses the faces, but also includes some descriptors. Then there’s one that is somewhat better, but still pretty far off. Pain scale using 0-10 numerical scale as well as faces ranging from a green “happy” face at 0 to a red, sad, crying face at 10. (When I say small children, I’m referring to around 2-3 years old, tops). It works well enough for small children, but it’s not anywhere near accurate once someone can conceptualize past smiley faces. I find the “smiley to cry face” chart to be the worst by far. Some are horrid for trying to use in a diagnostic setting. ![]() There are a lot of pain charts out there. ![]()
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