Sentence examples for descriptor of pain from inspiring English sources

Thurstone's Categorical Judgement model [ 51] was used to obtain weightings of pain intensity for each descriptor of pain in the McGill Pain Questionnaire-PRI.

Although there was difficulty in translating item 17, most of the participants (60.6%) claimed that they experienced this disability on some (34.6%) or most/every day (26%), thus suggesting that it was understood as a descriptor of pain in this population.

The major finding of the present study was that three descriptors of pain can discriminate between pain sensation preferentially conducted by either Aδ or C nerve fibers with a specificity of 95%.

Of 77 verbal descriptors of pain sensations, "pricking", "dull" and "pressing" distinguished best (95% cases correctly) between Aδ fiber mediated (punctate pressure produced by means of von Frey hairs) and C fiber mediated (blunt pressure) pain, applied to healthy volunteers in experiment 1.

Verbal descriptors of pain symptoms, along with neurological examination, are widely used to diagnose neuropathic pain.

The first component involves descriptors of pain categorised as sensory, affective, evaluative and miscellaneous.

GA=general anaesthesia; PPI=present pain intensity scale (verbal descriptors of pain ranked from 0-5 onumericalal scale).

VAS= visual analogue scale, im=intramuscular, PPI=present pain intensity scale (verbal descriptors of pain ranked from 0-5 onumericalal scale).

The short version of the McGill Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) contains 15 descriptors of pain sensation (11 sensory and four affective), each descriptor rated on a 4-point scale where 0 = none, 15 = mild, 25 = moderate, and 35 = severe [ 40].

25 Each patient is instructed and asked to point to a mark on a 10 cm horizontal line labelled with descriptors of pain intensity ('No pain' at the 0 cm point and 'Extreme pain' at the 10 cm point).

Separate 0-10 numeratingrating scales (NRS) will be used to measure the average intensity of back pain and leg pain over the past week, with end-point descriptors of "no pain" and "worst pain possible" [ 70, 71].