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A July 2010 survey, commissioned by HealthyWomen, revealed a concerning communications breakdown between people with chronic pain and their... Read more »
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) published a new set of diagnostic criteria they are proposing for fibromyalgia in the May... Read more »
In August 1955, Dr. Kurtzke published the Disability Status Scale (DSS) which is used to evaluate a patient’s impairment due to MS on a... Read more »
I hear from people all the time who want to know how they can get their doctors to understand just how bad their pain is. Describing your... Read more »
I suspect every chronic pain patient has been asked to rate their pain on a scale of 0 to 10. But if you're anything like me, you've... Read more »
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When health care professionals such as physical therapists see a large number of patients with the same problem, they look for evidence to support... Read more »
If you are a chronic pain patient, you have most likely been asked to “rate your pain on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being no pain and 10 being the... Read more »
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About 10 years ago, the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) was developed and validated. It is a scale used to measure fear of movement or reinjury... Read more »
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Determining pain levels in patients is not an easy task since pain is such a subjective sensation. In verbal patients, they can be asked to rate... Read more »
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A questionnaire for grading pain, the chronic pain grade questionnaire (CPG), was established several years ago before the publication of the World... Read more »