No, I am not looking for medical advice!
I am looking for a 0-10 pain scale that uses faces so I can show it to my patient who doesn’t speak English. Whenever we talk about pain using an interpreter he says he is 8/10 but his mannerisms do not match this ranking. I don’t think he understands that if you were 8/10 for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without any relief that eventually you would stop getting out of bed.
I just can’t find the right scale online, what I am looking for is full-color and meant to be used by adults. I need more than a 0-5 scale for him, which I guess is the standard pediatric "face"scale.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
There’s this basic one.
Does that help?
Look on Google images for color charts. There’s a good one, but I can’t link to it properly.
That’s the one I was trying to link to, but it wouldn’t load properly.
It’s a good one.
It took a long time to load!
One thing to remember too is that pain -mannerisms- can be culturally determined and often don’t ‘translate’ well from one culture to another. How a person reacts to a pain scale level of ‘9’ in one culture may be how a person in another culture would react to a ‘2’. There’s been a lot in the nursing literature on this. It usually boils down to pain interpretation on the numerical scale being more accurate that mannerisms and behavior, though opinions vary.
Thank you so much for the link, that is exactly what I was looking for. I should have “taken” one of those from the last place I worked when it closed for good.
GythaOgg, I think you are on to something there. This person laughs and jokes around and then complains of pain 8/10 which has never been relieved by Percocet or Norco. They are roughly 7 months post-op and have been through many sessions of physical therapy. Next time we meet I am going to black out the numbers on the pain scale and have them point to the face that matches their pain. I just have a feeling that their initial post-op pain was an 8 and they think that’s what it is supposed to be. A puzzling case, for sure.
