Methods: Participants (n=29) completed the Short Form – McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) for each pain site reported. A total of 64 pain sites were reported with 80% of the sample reporting multiple ...

Table 1. Description and outline of the advantages and disadvantages of the most commonly used pain assessment tools. Pain assessment tool Description Advantages Disadvantages Verbal rating scale Pain ...

This study, comparing NRS and VRS psychometric properties in the assessment of pain exacerbations, reveals a significantly higher discriminatory capability of NRS in distinguishing between background ...

Assessment of pain is always challenging, but the range of pain assessment tools that have been validated in the literature is improving. Use of verbal descriptors – such as ‘none’, ‘mild’, ‘moderate’ ...