Resources

We have provided a list of resources to help patients be more informed about their medical care.

Medical Pain Scale

Have difficulty rating your pain levels when the physician, nurse, or therapist asks? Here are a couple of functional pain scales that define the 0-10 pain scale. Michigan Pain Measurement Scales.

Pain free
Very minor annoyance-occasional minor twinges
Minor annoyance-occasional
Annoying enough to be distracting
Can be ignored if you are really involved in your work, but still distracting,
Can’t be ignored for more than 30 minutes.
Can’t be ignored for any length of time, but you can still go to work and participate in social activities.
Make it difficult to concentrate, interferes with sleep, you can still function with effort
Physical activity severely limited. You can read and converse with effort. Nausea and dizziness may occur.
Unable to speak, crying out or moaning uncontrollable- pain makes you pass out
Unconscious. Pain makes you pass out.

Occupational Therapy Quick Sheet

Many of you have been asking for more information on some of the most commonly treated conditions here at Compass Rehabilitation’s occupational therapy department.

As always, we welcome your suggestions for future additions of our quick sheets.

In addition to our traditional therapies, we also provide back-to-work programming.

This quick sheet will go over the following topics:

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome (SCDS)
Vestibular Rehabilitation
Migrainous Positional Vertigo (MPV) Ear vs. Brain