Mild pain that never ends isn’t actually mild [4m]

People talk about pain intensity all the time, healthcare professionals ask about it, and studies focus on it. We do our best to quantify it, with mixed results, because the traditional pain scale is a one-dimensional measurement of a multi-dimensional, highly subjective experience — there is no objective pain-meter . There are a lot of reasons why people don’t like to try to put a number on their…