It's tricky to measure.
But these metrics have since fallen out of favor among pain-management physicians, not just for the questionable ethics of testing and utilizing them, but also because they fail to account for the fact that, again, different people can experience thephysical pain stimulus differently. And since these tests rely on the person to self-report when the pain becomes intolerable, “who’s to say your pain is equal to my pain?” says Dr. Chen.
“Pain measurement has as much to do with the biological components of pain as it has to do with the subjective experience of pain.” —Reuben Chen, MD, pain-management specialist
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