S-LANSS Pain Score

1. In the area where you have pain, do you also have ‘pins and needles’, tingling or prickling sensations? *

2. Does the painful area change colour (perhaps looks mottled or more red) when the pain is particularly bad? *

3. Does your pain make the affected skin abnormally sensitive to touch? Getting unpleasant sensations or pain when lightly stroking the skin might describe this. *

4. Does your pain come on suddenly and in bursts for no apparent reason when you are completely still? Words like 'electric shocks', jumping and bursting might describe this. *

5. In the area where you have pain, does your skin feel unusually hot like a burning pain? *

6. Gently rub the painful area with your index finger, then rub a non-painful area (for example, an area of skin further away or on the opposite side from the painful area). How does this rubbing feel in the painful area? *

7. Gently press on the painful area with your finger tip and then gently press in the same wau onto a non-painful area (the same non-painful area that you chose in the last question). How does this feel in the pain area? *