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Last updated: Sat, Feb 22, 2025
Measuring pain severity.....
The emphasis on pain intensity: what is it? Its displacement of other aspects of pain, esp. time-related and stress-related. This emphasis could be the result of the emphasis of pain science on curing pain: More intense pain is more useful in identifying pain generators; more intense pain is assumed to be more unpleasant or to have more serious consequences to the patient.
The existence of anchored variations on VAS speak to problems with the measure.
Reasons for clinical popularity: could be related to a desire to avoid discussing it.
Problems with the dominant use of 'pain intensity level':
Prohibitions in treatment agreements about communicating hotly about pain.