The Pain Chart, Revised

By Miss Cellania in Art, Health on Mar 31, 2010 at 8:32 am

If you’ve ever been to an emergency room, you’ve seen the chart they give you to help describe the pain you are feeling on a scale of one to ten. Allie redrew the chart to make it more descriptive of real-world pain. Link -via Buzzfeed


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  1. zav
    Mar 31st, 2010 at 8:39 am

    This originally came from Reddit.

  2. Miss Cellania
    Mar 31st, 2010 at 8:44 am

    zav, are you saying Allie didn’t draw it?

  3. Johnny Cat
    Mar 31st, 2010 at 10:55 am

    I actually get more of a kick out of her interpretations of the real chart. “Huh. I never knew that about giraffes.” is spot on.

  4. Jollyboy
    Mar 31st, 2010 at 11:14 am

    Kind of funny, but pain charts are hopeless anyway. Different people feel different amounts of pain for the same injury or illness. I could be that some of us are tougher than others, it could be that our whole nervous system differs. It is, however, a fact that levels of pain are not universal and are therefore a poor measure of the seriousness of an ailment.

  5. zav
    Mar 31st, 2010 at 11:33 am

    Hmmmmmmmm……

    Lemmie check. I think that Allie did draw it after he BF started ralphing up craisins and it was first featured on Reddit, buuuuuuuut lessee…

    Yeah, it’s her art. Guess I’m fussing about nothing. You’re got proper attribution.

    Cursed intarnets. Things link places and people post stuff. They will be my undoing.

    Cheers. – Z

  6. kev
    Mar 31st, 2010 at 11:37 am

    @Jollyboy you’re right, but the pain scale is pretty helpful if you’re monitoring the progress of something.The point is to ask more than once, to see the degree to which pain is increasing or decreasing. It doesn’t give you solid facts, it gives you a relative comparison. Just like pulse strength and pupil response and your sadly hysterical responses to questions like “Do you know what day it is?” “Do you know where you are?”

  7. nihil
    Mar 31st, 2010 at 11:45 am

    This is AWESOME. I think I’ll print it out and give one to my ER nurse friends! They’ll get a big kick out of it.

  8. Ashley
    Mar 31st, 2010 at 1:41 pm

    I love this! “10. I am actively being mauled by a bear”

    The original pain charts are very unrealistic, I agree.

  9. Noelegy
    Apr 4th, 2010 at 1:25 pm

    Oh, this is great! I understand why they have to ask that, but I always hate trying to quantify pain in these terms, especially since 3 out of the 4 times I’ve been to an ER have involved kidney stones.

  10. 2muchpain
    May 3rd, 2010 at 12:22 am

    I too do not care for the pain charts. faces or worse yet the # chart – which btw caused miscommunication (sp?) between my nurse & dr ! There’s gotta be a better way … Um like this “revised” chart : ) pain is far too subjective to apply #’s & faces IMHO. Be well ev1


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