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Todd Dahlberg

Todd Dahlberg

Pediatrician and Palliative Medicine Physician at Gillette Children's, Director of Integrative Medicine, and co-leader of the Pain and Comfort Research Program.

Jul 28, 2026

13:44
So with that, I will turn it over to Dr. Dahlberg.
13:49
Thank you, Dr. Burke.
13:50
And thank you, everyone, for being here today.
13:53
I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about pain management within chronic complex conditions, specifically cerebral palsy, but it really expands to other conditions as well.
14:05
So first of all, some definition.
14:06
What is pain? Pain is an unpleasant sensory experience, an emotional experience that is based in actual or anticipated tissue injury conditions.
14:18
That's what the International Association for the Study of Pain will tell you.

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32:02
So how to help a child who is low verbal and cannot isolate the pain to treat the pain accurately, especially when the pain is often.
13:44
So with that, I will turn it over to Dr. Dalberg.
13:49
Thank you, Dr. Burkett, and thank you everyone for being here today.
13:53
I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about pain management within chronic complex conditions, specifically cerebral palsy, but it really expands to other conditions as well.
14:05
So first of all, some definition.
14:06
What is pain? Pain, uh, is an unpleasant sensory experience, an emotional experience that is based in actual or anticipated tissue injury.
14:18
Uh, that's what the inter-- institution, uh, international association for the study of pain will tell you.
14:24
Now, I know folks in San Francisco, you have the great luxury of having Dr. Friedrichsdorf amongst your, uh, as a colleague, rather.

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speaker_1MODERATOR
32:02
So how to help a child who is low verbal and cannot isolate the pain to treat the pain accurately, especially when the pain is often?
13:41
So with that, I will turn it over to Dr. Dahlberg.
13:46
Thank you, Dr. Burke.
13:47
And thank you, everyone, for being here today.
13:50
I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about pain management within chronic complex conditions, specifically cerebral palsy, but it really expands to other conditions as well.
14:01
So first of all, some definition.
14:03
What is pain? Pain is an unpleasant sensory experience, an emotional experience that is based in actual or anticipated tissue injury conditions.
14:14
That's what the International Association for the Study of Pain will tell you.

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SeanHOST
31:59
So how to help a child who is low verbal and cannot isolate the pain to treat the pain accurately, especially when the pain is often.

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