Doctors can use several tools to assess your pain level with ankylosing spondylitis. Being as specific as possible in describing your symptoms can help doctors determine effective treatment options.

The Rheumatoid Arthritis Severity Scale (RASS) scores the disease’s activity, functional impairment, and physical damage out of 100. However, doctors may use newer severity scales to analyze the ...

The Defense Department has a new tool to help military health care providers tackle one of the most complex challenges facing patients: pain. The DoD has launched a new pain rating scale that bears ...