Chronic illness pain scale explained 🙂‍↕️ 🎥: @illychronic #painmanagement | CreakyJoints

Ever struggled to answer the question, "On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad is your pain?" This video explains why the pain scale is one of the most flawed tools in medicine and how it often fails patients. Learn why the scale is subjective and how to describe your pain in functional terms that doctors will actually understand and respond to. Instead of just giving a number, connect your pain to your quality of life. This is the key to getting the treatment you need. #PatientAdvocacy #ChronicPain #Pa

😰PAIN SCALES: SUBjective vs. OBjective follow @nursewellversed for visual nursing education If you guessed PAIN is the commonly referred to “6th vital sign” from my last post, you’d be correct! It’s really important to assess your patient’s pain, but in order to do that you first need to understand how and when to use the proper pain scale. SUBjective pain scales gather information from the SUBject aka patient OBjective pain scales gather information via personal assessment from you (the nurse)