Latest Pediatricwellness Podcast Episodes
#92. Is Physical Therapy, The Panacea of Chronic Pain?
Pedia Pain Focus - January 12, 2023 05:48 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHave you ever had any of your patients say that they don't think physical therapy helps their pain? Or that the physical therapy made their pain worse? It would certainly not surprise me, if you said yes. And in that case, this is definitely is the episode you want to listen to carefully. And...
#91. Mental Health and Pediatric Pain; Chicken or the Egg?
Pedia Pain Focus - January 03, 2023 13:50 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsPain and mental illnesses coexist, often more than any of other illnesses. Both of them have a profound effect on a child's child’s quality of life, individually. Now imagine the magnitude of impact when they co-exist. In this episode, Dr. Anjana Kundu, with guest speaker Dr. Mirabelle M...
#90. Can We Prevent Pain from Becoming Chronic?
Pedia Pain Focus - January 20, 2022 04:37 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAcute pain may be a protective and adaptive phenomenon, but chronic pain is nothing but damaging and a burden in every way possible and for all involved directly or indirectly. So how do we reduce or can we reduce burden? Join me in this episode to learn the factors that contribute to chro...
#89. The Pain of Being a Redhead
Pedia Pain Focus - December 04, 2021 11:47 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDid you know that redheads can tolerate more spicy foods than those with dark hair? This is supported by biology and genetics. Ask any anesthesiologist or a dentist and they'll tell you - often with a sigh, I might add - that taking care of redhead is can be challenging! The issue of pain...
The Pain of Being a Redhead
Pedia Pain Focus - December 04, 2021 11:47 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDid you know that redheads can tolerate more spicy foods than those with dark hair? This is supported by biology and genetics. Ask any anesthesiologist or a dentist and they'll tell you - often with a sigh, I might add - that taking care of redhead is can be challenging! The issue of pain...
#88. Pharmacovigilance to Evaluate Efficacy and Net Clinical Benefit in Pediatric Pain Medicine
Pedia Pain Focus - November 16, 2021 05:44 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsPediatric pain management is fraught with reasons that make it feel like we are operating blindfolded. Many treatments are used without clear indications or evidence specifically in this population. What if you had a way to study what you do in pediatric pain management, while you do it, would ...
87. Shifting the Paradigm in Pediatric Pain Medicine
Pedia Pain Focus - November 07, 2021 17:49 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHow is it that when 1 in 3 school age children reports chronic or recurrent pain, yet we fail to ensure that there is adequate help available for these children? That our system ensure at least basic level of pain medicine training for healthcare professionals? These are a few of the question...
#86. Essential Elements of a Successful Patient Encounter
Pedia Pain Focus - October 29, 2021 03:23 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsTime pressure in today's healthcare visits is a reality. Increasingly there is more emphasis on value and efficiency in clinical care delivery. Meanwhile changing factors in healthcare delivery with shorter visit times, increasing amounts of required documentation for compliance, and the perceiv...
#85. Pain Amongst Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Pedia Pain Focus - October 20, 2021 03:40 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHow does one reconcile the facts that DSM diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder includes pain insensitivity and a high pain threshold, while these children report that their clothes feel like sand paper and their fingers while shampooing feel like sharp metal? Join me in this epis...
#84. Post-Concussive Headache and Symptom Management in Children
Pedia Pain Focus - October 13, 2021 19:16 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this episode, Blake Windsor, MD a pediatrician with a subspecialty in training for pediatric pain medicine, and a board certified headache specialist discusses post concussive headaches and unique challenges it poses. Headache is the most common post traumatic or post concussive symptom. Even...
#83. Reengineering Pediatric Perioperative Care for Optimal Outcomes
Pedia Pain Focus - October 05, 2021 23:11 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThis conversation with Marjorie Gloff, MD and Renee Robinson, DNP, APRN makes me convinced that the expression "Preparation is half the battle won" must have been coined with the idea of perioperative medicine and perioperative surgical home (PSH) in mind! They are the co-directors of the Cen...
#82. Chronic Pediatric Pain in 2021: US Pain Foundation Report
Pedia Pain Focus - September 29, 2021 03:35 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsChronic pain is often overlooked, and when it comes to children, it is even more so. The continued neglect of children's pain affects the ability to truly evaluate the extent of the problem and challenges these kids and their families face. The United States Pain Foundation, a pain advoca...
#81. How to Choose the Right Pain Treatments?
Pedia Pain Focus - September 22, 2021 04:11 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsTreatment of pain is challenging to say the least. For one it is difficult to understand the complexity of the pain experience. This episode explains the components of nociception and the pain experience. It also examines the targets for pain control and thus provides comprehensive framework fo...
#80. Stop Treating Pain Like a Symptom!
Pedia Pain Focus - September 17, 2021 23:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsPain isn't simply a symptom of another disease or a result of another noxious or traumatic event. It's an independent entity in itself in majority of the situations. It's time we stopped approaching it with the Cartesian model framework. Join me in this episode to learn about how and when ...
#79. Pain Amongst Neonates, Infants and Young Children
Pedia Pain Focus - September 09, 2021 00:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThere's no better way to kick off September as the Pain Awareness Month than bringing you a conversation with Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand, whose research took the medical world by storm, even risking his license, as he sought out to answer the question of; what if we give children anesthesia and ana...
Remodeling Pediatric Pain Management in the Emergency Rooms
Pedia Pain Focus - September 01, 2021 03:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWhen the gold standard for pain assessment is verbal report, children's pain assessment and management requires specific knowledge and understanding. Children at these important stages of growth create key memories-- and the last thing we need is a whole generation of children that associate ge...
78. Remodeling Pediatric Pain Management in the Emergency Rooms
Pedia Pain Focus - September 01, 2021 03:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWhen the gold standard for pain assessment is verbal report, children's pain assessment and management requires specific knowledge and understanding. Children at these important stages of growth create key memories-- and the last thing we need is a whole generation of children that associate ge...
#78. Remodeling Pediatric Pain Management in the Emergency Rooms
Pedia Pain Focus - September 01, 2021 03:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWhen the gold standard for pain assessment is verbal report, children's pain assessment and management requires specific knowledge and understanding. Children at these important stages of growth create key memories-- and the last thing we need is a whole generation of children that associate ge...
#77. Impact of Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program Part 2
Pedia Pain Focus - August 24, 2021 23:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsChronic pain in children can be a really serious condition and many of them may have a long journey to get where they need to be! Says Julia Wager, PhD, an accomplished pediatric pain psychologist and head of research department, at the German Paediatric Pain Center, Children's and Adolescent...
#76. Impact of Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program Part 1
Pedia Pain Focus - August 18, 2021 04:02 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn society and healthcare, people understand that kids with cancer do suffer pain, but people did not understand that children without an obvious somatic condition could suffer pain that really need treatment; says Julia Wager, PhD, an accomplished pediatric pain psychologist and head of resear...
#75. Role of the Gut-Brain Axis in Pediatric Pain
Pedia Pain Focus - August 10, 2021 23:25 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsResearch in the past decade has demonstrated a complex, bidirectional communication between the central nervous system and the enteric nervous system; the Gut-Brain Axis (GBA). This knowledge has provided much more clarity on many of the chronic pain conditions which previously had been mislabel...
#74. Asset or Liability? What you Need to Know about Herbs for Pediatric Pain Management
Pedia Pain Focus - August 04, 2021 03:17 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr. Dhanu Sant, an integrative pediatrician and trained herbal and plant medicine specialist returns to discuss herbs for pain management to stress management, to their role as adaptogens and beyond. She discusses safe use of herbs for a variety of health conditions but specifically for pain ...
Asset or Liability? What you Need to Know about Herbs for Pediatric Pain Management
Pedia Pain Focus - August 04, 2021 03:17 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr. Dhanu Sant, an integrative pediatrician and trained herbal and plant medicine specialist returns to discuss herbs for pain management to stress management, to their role as adaptogens and beyond. She discusses safe use of herbs for a variety of health conditions but specifically for pain ...
#73. Nutrition, Supplements and Pediatric Pain
Pedia Pain Focus - July 24, 2021 15:49 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAsk Ashley Koff, RD, what she recommends as a healthy diet. Her answer? It’s always personal. When it comes to pediatric pain management, nutrition is both challenging and essential for our patients. And the idea of nutrition can be overwhelming, and contradictory, for healthcare professi...
#72. Real vs. Fake: The Look of Pain!
Pedia Pain Focus - July 20, 2021 21:08 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWhat does pain look like? In today’s episode, I discuss different ways in which our biases and experiences can often overshadow the experience of the patient, impact clinician-patient encounters and the importance of context in every situation. Is there a specific look to pain? Have you e...
#71 Acupuncture Rocks for Managing Pediatric Pain and Beyond with Clara Cohen!
Pedia Pain Focus - July 13, 2021 17:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr. Clara Cohen experienced the magic of acupuncture from a young age when she was able to recover from scoliosis related pain as a child. She initially worked as a personal trainer, but felt a strong desire to help her clients in an even more impactful way. That’s when she discovered acupunc...
#70. Smoothing the Wrinkles of Pediatric Migraine and Botox
Pedia Pain Focus - July 07, 2021 00:25 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWe all know of Botox use to reduce signs of aging. Approved in 2010 to treat migraines in adults, it’s now also being explored (as an off-label treatment) for management of pediatric migraines. In this episode, Dr. Shalini Shah, MD, MBA, the Vice-Chair for the Department of Anesthesiology...
Smoothing the Wrinkles of Pediatric Migraine and Botox
Pedia Pain Focus - July 07, 2021 00:25 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWe all know of Botox use to reduce signs of aging. Approved in 2010 to treat migraines in adults, it’s now also being explored (as an off-label treatment) for management of pediatric migraines. In this episode, Dr. Shalini Shah, MD, MBA, the Vice-Chair for the Department of Anesthesiology...
#69. Changing the Culture of Pediatric Pain at Institutional Level
Pedia Pain Focus - June 29, 2021 21:13 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsPediatric pain has been left on the back burner for decades now-- where many clinicians 30 years ago thought that infants did not feel pain. With the progress made, both in pain management and technology, it’s about time that we call institutions to shift the culture, so we can work towards maki...
#68 Advances in Management of Sickle Cell Disease
Pedia Pain Focus - June 24, 2021 12:37 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingspain is the most common and devastating symptom of Sickle Cell Disease. Despite the slow and elusive developement of therapeutic intervention in Sickle cell disease that would halt the vasocclusive crisis and the related pain, last few decades have brought about good progress with successful hem...
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