One Man's Mission to Improve Our Healthcare System and Resolve Chronic Pain

NEW YORK, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Many Americans feel that today's healthcare
system is failing them. Increased costs resulting in higher insurance
premiums have made it more difficult to afford health insurance. The pivotal
issue not being addressed, says renowned pain resolution expert and physical
therapist Mitchell Yass, is whether the costs being incurred are efficacious
and necessary -- Yass staunchly believes they are not -- and what healthcare
segment seems to be driving this rise in cost. Increased costs, Yass
maintains, can be summed up in one word: pain. Alarmingly, pain is rarely
diagnosed and treated properly, resulting in millions of unnecessary surgeries
and the overuse of prescription drugs. After recognizing vital flaws in pain
detection and resolution practices in the U.S., Yass developed his
revolutionary method, the subject of his book, Overpower Pain: The Strength
Training Program that Stops Pain without Drugs or Surgery, and has detected
and resolved pain in thousands of patients. He has made it his mission to
educate others on correctly assessing and eliminating pain. While structural
abnormalities are generally believed to be the root of pain, Yass has proven
that pain is nearly always the result of muscular imbalance or weakness.
Understanding this, Yass contends, is the road to a more effective and
affordable healthcare system and will drastically improve the lives of
millions.

To understand Yass' theory, one must first review how the system currently
works. The average individual enters the healthcare system when experiencing
loss of function or pain. Typically, an x-ray or MRI is executed and a
structural abnormality such as a herniated disc or arthritis is identified.
This becomes the basis for a diagnosis and subsequent treatment. The problem,
Yass explains, is that none of the steps generally taken -- from diagnostic
testing, to the prescription of medicine to the implementation of
pain-minimizing therapies -- seek to identify the cause of pain. The testing
only identifies a structural abnormality that is assumed to be the root of the
pain. However, extensive studies have proven that as many individuals not in
pain have the same structural abnormalities found on screening exams of those
with pain. Thus, there is little correlation between diagnostic findings and
symptoms, including pain.

Yass discovered through working with countless patients unable to resolve pain
through medication or surgery, that pain is nearly always the result of
muscular imbalance or weakness, not structural abnormalities. He resolves
pain through strength training and has a 95% success rate. Yass aims to dispel
common misconceptions such as rest being the answer to resolving a
dysfunction. The bottom line is that, Yass says, "strength equals function."

Yass is determined to get people back to their pain-free, normal function,
which he believes will eliminate billions of dollars of unnecessary expenses
including diagnostic tests, unnecessary surgeries, drug reliance and excessive
physician visits. He's hopeful that this will lead to affordable healthcare
insurance for all.

SOURCE Mitchell Yass

Courtney O'Neill of AAM, +1-212-661-1336, Courtney@aammanagement.com, for
Mitchell Yass