Official Pain Scale

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Mankoski Pain Scale

Mankoski devised this pain scale to help describe the subjective

experience of pain in more concrete terms to her doctors and family. Please

feel free to use it and distribute it with attribution.

0 - Pain Free

1 - Very minor annoyance - occasional minor twinges.

No medication needed.

2 - Minor Annoyance - occasional strong twinges.

No medication needed.

3 - Annoying enough to be distracting.

Mild painkillers take care of it. (Aspirin, Ibuprofen.)

4 - Can be ignored if you are really involved in your work, but still

distracting.

Mild painkillers remove pain for 3-4 hours.

5 - Can't be ignored for more than 30 minutes.

Mild painkillers ameliorate pain for 3-4 hours.

6 - Can't be ignored for any length of time, but you can still go to work and

participate in social activities.

Stronger painkillers (Codeine, narcotics) reduce pain for 3-4 hours.

7 - Makes it difficult to concentrate, interferes with sleep. You can still

function with effort. Stronger painkillers are only partially effective.

8 - Physical activity severely limited. You can read and converse with

effort. Nausea and dizziness set in as factors of pain.

Stronger painkillers are minimally effective. Strongest painkillers reduce

pain for 3-4 hours.

9 - Unable to speak. Crying out or moaning uncontrollably - near delirium.

Strongest painkillers are only partially effective

10 - Unconscious. Pain makes you pass out.

Strongest painkillers are only partially effective.

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This is the scale doctors refer to.

Kathleen

Seattle USA

" A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its

pants on. "

- Sir Winston Churchill

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