Visual Pain Scale

Pain Scale


I never like it when doctors ask you to rate you pain level on a scale of 1 to 10, and I really don’t see the how it helps to visualize the pain scale. Even stranger, this scale is from a poster at the vet with a graphic of a dog skeleton.

Is the dog supposed to point at the bone that hurts and at the appropriate tick on the pain scale?

In case you can’t read the text, this scale goes from 0 = Pain Free to 10 = Worst Possible Pain.

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