The Role of Pain Intensity in Pain Management

Pain threshold is the point where a sensory experience that you're having becomes painful. Pain tolerance is something that athletes, particularly endurance athletes and interestingly, not so much strength athletes, at least according to the literature, have an elevation of we have better pain tolerance. The third one is pain severity. We don't have a blood test for pain. There's no objective way to evaluate somebody's pain. A little smiley to sad to frowning to desperate faces are state of the art in measuring pain intensity.