Non verbal signs of pain: 😟 Facial expressions 🧍♀️Body posture. (Pain patients tend to protect their body by holding their limbs close or move unnaturally in an attempt to protect their body) 😭 Crying and sounds of distress Withdrawal from activity or into silence 🤬 Mood changes - quick to anger, aggression, irritability, and agitation 😕 Confusion 👐 Hand movements can show distress or pain 🥵 Excessive sweating 🔗 MySeveralWorlds.com #PainAwareness #PainCounts #LifeWithPain #CPP #ArthritisAwareness #ArthritisStrong #MySeveralWorlds #SuicideAwareness
Non verbal signs of pain
*Face expressions
*Body posture
*Crying and sounds of distress
*Withdrawal from activity or to silence
*Mood changes: quick to anger, aggression, irritability & agitation
*Confusion
*Hand movements show distress/pain
*Excessive sweating
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![❓How are #AnkylosingSpondylitis aka #AxialSpondyloarthritis and fibromyalgia rated on the McGill Pain Index?
❗They are consistently rated among 10 of the most painful diseases in the world.
"The chronic pain associated with these diseases comes very close to the pain experienced with childbirth. The main thing to remember is that childbirth doesn’t last forever, but you can look forward to a lifetime of unending pain with AS, fibromyalgia and ME."
~ 70 Things About My Invisible Illness You Might Not Know, 2015, Carrie Kellenberger, My Several Worlds (LINK IN COMMENTS)
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😐 10 and 20 on the McGill Index are: sprain, fracture, and toothache and arthritis having the same pain score.
😧 22-28 include pain such as after shingles pain (22), non terminal cancer (26), chronic back pain (28) and chronic migraine (29)
😭 30 to 38 on the McGill Index are: fibromyalgia (30), Ankylosing Spondylitis (32), childbirth with training (32), childbirth no training (36), and amputation of toe or finger (39).
🤯 CRPS at 46 is the most painful disease in the world.
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