The Yass Method: Resolving Your Pain Without Surgery!

Greg Sherwood joins Dr. Mitchell Yass, a licensed physical therapist and author of upcoming Hay House book The Encyclopedia of Pain, as they discuss a way to treat pain without having to take drastic surgical measures. Having treated countless patients who’ve previously been told that only surgery can help them, Dr. Yass reveals that, based on his research and strength-training system, in many cases going under the knife is unnecessary.

He explains that oftentimes “pain is an indication of a tissue in distress”; if pain is found to be muscular, it can actually be treated and cured by strengthening the affected muscles. Dr. Yass does not suggest that all pain is in our muscles; some, he says, is structural, and in these cases he does support surgery as a way to address the pain. However, he firmly believes that all muscular pain can be treated with strength training, massage, and other nonsurgical methods.