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How to Beat Pain

Dr Jack Kreindler and Professor Greg Whyte tackle pain - one of the most common complaints in Britain - by using each other as human guinea pigs in fun and painful experiments.

Dr Jack Kreindler and Professor Greg Whyte tackle pain - one of the most common complaints in Britain. To reveal key facts about chronic back pain, osteoarthritis and acute pain, and give insight into how these debilitating conditions can be treated, these medical mavericks use each other as human guinea pigs in fun and often painful experiments.

Greg dons a pain-inducing 'osteoarthritis suit' and reveals the horrors of performing everyday tasks in it, while Jack enters the cage, going head-on with a man who is intent on inflicting acute pain.

So, when the doctors say it is going to hurt them more than it hurts you, this time they really mean it. And along the way Jack and Greg reveal useful facts and helpful approaches to treatment.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 30 May 2012 19:30

Music Played

  • A Day in Dorset – Tom Quick & John Hogg

    A Day in Dorset

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Rollerblades

  • Terry Devine King & Adam Drake

    Green Acre

  • Matt Hill

    Memories of Berlin

  • The Monkees

    I'm A Believer

  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

  • Daniel Gautreau

    Lift me up

  • Massive Attack

    Angel (feat. Horace Andy)

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia

  • Florence + The Machine

    Blinding

  • Professor Green

    Just be good to green

  • LL Cool J

    Mama said knock you out

  • Star Wars

    The Empire Strikes Back

  • Caribou

    Sun

  • Faces

    Ooh la la

  • Philip Guyler

    Little George

  • The Smiths

    Heaven knows I'm miserable now

  • Philippe Guez & Patrick Maarek

    Cold Tension

  • Jackie Wilson

    I get the sweetest feeling

  • Gorillaz & De La Soul

    Feel Good inc. ft. de la Soul

  • Queen & David Bowie

    Under pressure

  • The Ting Tings

    Fruit Machine –

  • Geoff Love & His Orchestra

    Match of the Day

  • Craig Armstrong

    Ruthless Gravity

  • XX

    Crystallised

  • The Ting Tings

    Impacilla Carpising

  • Girls Aloud

    Sexy No No No

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

  • Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong

    Gone Fishin' (feat. John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra)

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jack Kreindler
Presenter Greg Whyte
Executive Producer Caroline Hawkins
Executive Producer Alice Keens-Soper
Director Fred Aidroos
Producer Eve Kay

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