Communication Tools
ACPA Quality of Life Scale
Chronic pain has an impact on your life as well as your body. The ACPA Quality of Life Scale can help you and your health care team to more accurately evaluate your condition and track your progress over time.
Many pain scales now in use focus on pain---on how much and where you hurt. But we know that the experience of pain is a highly personal and relative thing. The ACPA feels that its important to look at not just your level of pain but also on how much that pain limits your ability to live a full life.
The Quality of Life Scale considers your ability to participate in work, family, and social activities. We hope it will be useful to you both as a way to track your own progress and as a communication tool with family, care givers, and others.
Please feel free to download and print it to share with your doctor and other members of your medical team.
Click here to open the ACPA Quality of Life Scale in PDF format.