The present invention relates to use of Cometin in a method of treatment of allodynia, hyperalgesia, spontaneous pain and/or phantom pain. In a preferred embodiment the disorder to be treated is thermal allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia. The Cometin polypeptide may be delivered as a polypeptide or by administration of an expression vector for expression of Cometin, a cell line transformed or transduced with said vector and a capsule comprising said cells.