Journal of Pain & Relief
Open Access

Chronic pain is a major health issue. It’s one of the most common reasons why adults see a doctor in the United States, and up to forty percent of Americans live with chronic pain. Work with your doctor to find the best one for you. There’s also a range of alternative therapies available to ease chronic pain. Interventions, like exercise, massage, and yoga, can improve quality of life without causing harmful side effects in the process [1]. A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. A person usually self-reports their pain using a specially designed scale, sometimes with the help of a doctor, parent, or guardian. Pain scales may be used during admission to a hospital, during a doctor visit, during physical activity, or after surgery. Doctors use the pain scale to better understand certain aspects of a person’s pain. Some of these aspects are pain duration, severity, and type. Pain scales can also help doctors make an accurate diagnosis, create a treatment plan, and measure the effectiveness of treatment [2]. Pain scales exist for people of all ages, from new-born to seniors, as well as people with impaired communication skills. Multidimensional tools for pain assessment aren’t always commonly used. However, many experts argue that they’re extremely valuable, just underused. Uni-dimensional pain scales, a simple way for people to rate the intensity of their pain. They use words, images, or descriptors to measure pain or pain relief [3]. 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 the face that they feel is most consistent with their current pain level. Initial pain assessment tool, designed for use during an initial evaluation. It helps doctor get information from the person about the characteristics of their pain, the way the person expresses their pain, and how the pain is affecting the person’s everyday life. This pain scale includes the use of a paper diagram. It shows a body where people can mark the location of their pain, as well as a scale to rate pain intensity and a space for more comments. Brief pain inventory tool, fast and simple for people to use to help measure pain intensity and associated disability. It includes a series of questions addressing aspects of pain felt over the previous 24 hours. MPQ , most widely used multidimensional pain scale exists in questionnaire form,and assesses a person’s pain based on the words they use to describe their pain. Pain scales can be useful in assessing a person’s acute, or sudden, pain. However, these tools can sometimes oversimplify the pain assessment process. Pain can be multidimensional. It can have different characteristics and affect different parts of a person’s life. Because of this, multidimensional pain scales are among the most useful and effective when used to assess complex or chronic pain [4]. Categorical pain scale, a simple way to rate their pain intensity using a verbal or visual descriptor of their pain. Visual pain scale shows a 10-centimeter line printed on a piece of paper, with anchors at either end. At one end is zero pain, and at the other end are pain as bad as it could be or else the worst imaginable pain [5]. Numerical pain intensity levels, assessed upon initial treatment, or periodically after treatment.

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