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Pedia Pain Focus

Dr. Anjana Kundu

Pedia Pain Focus podcast provides education, and tools for healthcare professionals dealing with children affected by pain. Dr. Anjana Kundu, founder of Proactive Pain Solutions, is an exper...

Episodes

20 of 92 episodes

#92. Is Physical Therapy, The Panacea of Chronic Pain?

Have 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...

53:06Jan 12, 2023

#91. Mental Health and Pediatric Pain; Chicken or the Egg?

Pain 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...

42:35Jan 3, 2023

#90. Can We Prevent Pain from Becoming Chronic?

Acute pain may be a protective and adaptive phenomenon, but chronic pain is nothing but damaging and a burden in every way possible and for...

52:19Jan 20, 2022

#89. The Pain of Being a Redhead

Did you know that redheads can tolerate more spicy foods than those with dark hair? This is supported by biology and genetics. Ask any anest...

32:17Dec 4, 2021

#88. Pharmacovigilance to Evaluate Efficacy and Net Clinical Benefit in Pediatric Pain Medicine

Pediatric pain management is fraught with reasons that make it feel like we are operating blindfolded. Many treatments are used without clea...

51:50Nov 16, 2021

87. Shifting the Paradigm in Pediatric Pain Medicine

How 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 availabl...

46:35Nov 7, 2021

#86. Essential Elements of a Successful Patient Encounter

Time pressure in today's healthcare visits is a reality. Increasingly there is more emphasis on value and efficiency in clinical care delive...

47:25Oct 29, 2021

#85. Pain Amongst Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

How does one reconcile the facts that DSM diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder includes pain insensitivity and a high pain thres...

42:45Oct 20, 2021

#84. Post-Concussive Headache and Symptom Management in Children

In this episode, Blake Windsor, MD a pediatrician with a subspecialty in training for pediatric pain medicine, and a board certified headach...

56:48Oct 13, 2021

#83. Reengineering Pediatric Perioperative Care for Optimal Outcomes

This conversation with Marjorie Gloff, MD and Renee Robinson, DNP, APRN makes me convinced that the expression "Preparation is half the batt...

51:58Oct 5, 2021

#82. Chronic Pediatric Pain in 2021: US Pain Foundation Report

Chronic pain is often overlooked, and when it comes to children, it is even more so. The continued neglect of children's pain affects the ab...

52:33Sep 29, 2021

#81. How to Choose the Right Pain Treatments?

Treatment of pain is challenging to say the least. For one it is difficult to understand the complexity of the pain experience. This episode...

39:05Sep 22, 2021

#80. Stop Treating Pain Like a Symptom!

Pain 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 ma...

34:58Sep 17, 2021

#79. Pain Amongst Neonates, Infants and Young Children

There's no better way to kick off September as the Pain Awareness Month than bringing you a conversation with Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand, whose...

01:07:43Sep 9, 2021

#78. Remodeling Pediatric Pain Management in the Emergency Rooms

When the gold standard for pain assessment is verbal report, children's pain assessment and management requires specific knowledge and under...

55:39Sep 1, 2021

#77. Impact of Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program Part 2

Chronic 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...

41:27Aug 24, 2021

#76. Impact of Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program Part 1

In society and healthcare, people understand that kids with cancer do suffer pain, but people did not understand that children without an ob...

47:20Aug 18, 2021

#75. Role of the Gut-Brain Axis in Pediatric Pain

Research in the past decade has demonstrated a complex, bidirectional communication between the central nervous system and the enteric nervo...

36:07Aug 10, 2021

#74. Asset or Liability? What you Need to Know about Herbs for Pediatric Pain Management

Dr. Dhanu Sant, an integrative pediatrician and trained herbal and plant medicine specialist returns to discuss herbs for pain management to...

53:28Aug 4, 2021

#73. Nutrition, Supplements and Pediatric Pain

Ask Ashley Koff, RD, what she recommends as a healthy diet. Her answer? It's always personal. When it comes to pediatric pain management, nu...

49:59Jul 24, 2021