Africa: Unpacking Pain - What Causes It and Why It's Hard to Measure

[The Conversation Africa] Pain is difficult to measure. Unlike using a thermometer to measure body temperature, a blood test to measure blood glucose, or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan to detect a tumour, there are no instruments or tests that objectively measure pain.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news