While seemingly straightforward, rating pain on a scale of 0 to 10 is more complex than it appears, influenced by factors ...

A vertical "visual analog scale" asks the person to mark their pain on a vertical line, a bit like imagining "filling up" ...

It's really sore," my (Josh's) five-year-old daughter said, cradling her broken arm in the emergency department.Authors Joshua Pate Senior Lecturer ...

Only around 1 in 10 common non-surgical and non-invasive treatments for lower back pain is effective, suggests a pooled data ...

In the study, treatment with AGA111, a recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein 6 (rhBMP6), led to faster radiographic fusion and a higher fusion success rate, as well as greater improvements in ...

Patient-reported measures were obtained at baseline. Pain severity (100 mm visual analogue scale (VAS)), function (Anterior Knee Pain Scale (AKPS)) and self-reported recovery were measured 5–8 years ...