People will experience pain more or less in their life. 91% of Chinese people have experienced physical pain, and 34% of Chinese people experience physical pain every week. Many diseases were first discovered because of pain. Being able to describe your pain correctly will help the doctor find the cause behind it more accurately. However, many patients spend a lot of time and can't explain how to pain themselves. This week is China's Pain Relief Week. Learn the following "5-step description", and you will know your pain situation very well. If you also have a notebook and can dynamically record the changes of pain, it will enable the doctor to quickly understand your pain! Step 1: Tell the doctor whether the painful part is the neck stem, rib fork (three tones), hip shaft, or the corrugated cap, ankle? If you can't explain clearly, you can open your clothes on the spot and show them to the doctor. If you are an online patient, you can draw a sketch or find a body photo to mark the pain part to help the doctor understand. Step 2: Think about the time and frequency of pain. "Duration" refers to the time when the pain first appeared, one week ago, two months ago, half a year ago, or five years ago. The "attack frequency" refers to whether the pain is constant (persistent) or intermittent, that is, paroxysmal. If it is paroxysmal, how long is the duration of each attack and how long is the interval between each attack. What many patients do not know is that sometimes after treatment, the degree of pain may not be relieved obviously, but the decrease of attack frequency and attack time is also a sign of improvement. Step 3: Try to describe the nature of pain. This is what doctors often ask about "how to pain"? Patients with strong expressive ability usually give various interesting descriptions. The representative and professional descriptions are as follows: soreness, distension, burning pain, needle pricking pain, string electric pain, ant crawling, colic, pain at the touch, knife cutting pain... Step 4: Go to the level of describing "the degree of pain", which is commonly known as "how painful". Describe to the doctor how painful it is. You can use the visual analog scale to score the degree of pain. If we divide the pain level into 10 grades, giving 10 points at most and giving 0 point at all, from no pain, slight pain, mild pain, moderate pain, severe pain to severe pain, how can you give your pain level? If it is still difficult to understand or describe, simply tell the doctor whether sleep is affected at night and whether work and life are affected during the day. Step 5: Recall inducements and pain influencing factors "inducements" refer to possible inducements when symptoms appear for the first time, such as fatigue, strenuous exercise, trauma... "aggravating or relieving factors" refer to when the pain will be mild and when it will be severe after it appears. For example, it will be better after rest, bending, defecation and medication; It will be aggravated after pressing, exercise and insufficient sleep. (Outlook New Times)