An easy - and free - way for therapists to assess clinical progress is to use an analogue scale. Image by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash This can be a numeric scale such as the one developed in 1932 by Rensis Likert ( 1 ) to measure attitudes. Typically a 5- or 7-point ordinal scale, respondents rate the degree to which they agree or disagree with a statement. It is essentially a rating scale, usually presented as a score between 1 - 5 or 1 - 10, where the person selects

One of the most important things about this study is that it used self-reported-symptoms (SRS) to determine if lymphoedema was present,...