{"id":3194,"date":"2025-03-10T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2025-03-10T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:30:45","slug":"explaining-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/explaining-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining pain can be a difficult thing to do, especially for neurodivergent people. For some it can be difficult to understand what things mean. This means it can be difficult to self advocate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10153039\/Explaining-Pain.pdf\">Explaining Pain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3195\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152718\/Body-pain-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152718\/Body-pain-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152718\/Body-pain-679x1024.png 679w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152718\/Body-pain-768x1159.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152718\/Body-pain.png 835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pain scale must be something that is personal to the person. If the worst pain they have experienced is a broken leg then this should be a number 9. An appropriate pain scale must be used to ensure accurate descriptions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3196\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152722\/pain-scale-196x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152722\/pain-scale-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152722\/pain-scale-669x1024.png 669w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152722\/pain-scale-768x1176.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152722\/pain-scale.png 823w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152726\/Types-of-pain-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152726\/Types-of-pain-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152726\/Types-of-pain-672x1024.png 672w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152726\/Types-of-pain-768x1170.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/uploads\/sites\/8799\/2025\/03\/10152726\/Types-of-pain.png 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining pain can be a difficult thing to do, especially for neurodivergent people. For some it can be difficult to understand what things mean. This means it can be difficult to self advocate. Explaining Pain A pain scale must be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/explaining-pain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/communicationfriendlyenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}