To get good control of your chronic pain, it's not enough to tell your doctor it hurts. You need to learn how to talk about pain: how it feels, how it rates on a pain scale, and how it affects you.

The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale uses faces, numbers, and words to help a person communicate the severity of pain. Learn more about its uses here.

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The imaginative level refers to the images I had of what was causing the pain and imagined future sequence of interacting with the pain. As I experienced the pain, I had a picture in my head ...

The DoD has launched a new pain rating scale that bears the familiar 0-10 numbers, smiley and frowny faces and green, amber and red stoplight colors meant to signal a patient's acute or chronic pain.