Relieving the pain of local anesthetic injections and other surface-based treatments has always been something we as podiatrists have tried to achieve to give of our patient’s maximum comfort. As a student I remember having to learn about techniques to reduce the pain of injections such as warming the anaesthetic prior to injecting, cooling the skin prior to treatment or the use of topical anaesthetic creams such as Emla. In a recent edition of the journal “Paediatric Dermato