Pain medicine is an emerging branch of medicine which attempts to understand and intervene in the processes that cause pain. Since humans have suffered pain as long as they have been human, and probably before that, pain specialists are still trying to sort the myths and misconceptions from the truth. The aim of this podcast is to provide unbiased and critical information about the myriad of scientific, pseudoscientific and flat out antiscientific treatments which pain sufferers, their carers and treaters have to sort through.