Pain scales help you rate your level of pain so it can be communicated to your doctor, other health professionals, or even your family.
To help compensate for this problem, many
doctors rely on pain scales to get a more concrete sense of a person's pain.
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.) A doctor would ask a person in pain which
face matched up with what they were feeling.
There are different types of pain scales --
verbal, numerical, and visual pain scales.
Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale
With the
Wong-Baker pain scale, six faces are used that are numbered 0 to 5 underneath:
Face 0 is
a happy face (no hurt)
Face 1 is still smiling (hurts a little bit)
Face 2 is not smiling or frowning (hurts a little more)
Face 3 is starting to frown (hurts even more)
Face 4 is definitely frowning (hurts a whole lot)
Face 5 is crying although you don't have to cry to choose this face (hurts the worst)
Face 1 is still smiling (hurts a little bit)
Face 2 is not smiling or frowning (hurts a little more)
Face 3 is starting to frown (hurts even more)
Face 4 is definitely frowning (hurts a whole lot)
Face 5 is crying although you don't have to cry to choose this face (hurts the worst)
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