Nisha interviews Mitchell T Yass, PT author of Overpower Pain
Overpower Pain - A continuing conversation with Mitchell T Yass, PT author of OverPower Pain - 2nd Interview

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Mitchell T Yass has a new vision of how to diagnose and treat pain. The vision resulted from a personal awakening. He had realized almost from the beginning of his career that the medical education he had received did not prepare him to address the symptoms being exhibited by the patients he was treating. The diagnoses being given by the physicians who referred these patients to physical therapy did not match the symptoms that the patients had. The types of treatments he was educated to use to resolve the symptoms being presented did not make any sense to him. He found himself questioning how he could in good conscience treat patients knowing they could not resolve their symptoms under the existing conditions of treatment. He turned inward to his personal experience as both a long time strength training advocate and a life long analytical thinker. Most diagnoses were being created in most cases only through the use of diagnostic tests such as MRIs, x-rays and EMGs. Only structural abnormalities such as arthritis, herniated discs, mensical tears and stenosis could be identified. Yass had realized very early on that most of these structural abnormalities could be found in people with no symptoms. Therefore, he had to assume that in the cases where people had pain, there may be another cause and that these structural abnormalities simply existed but required no treatment. He developed a system of clinical evaluation techniques that gave him the ability to determine when the cause of pain is muscular such as with strains, weakness or imbalance or when the cause is structural and requires medical intervention such as surgery.  

Mitchell’s website is www.pt2therapy.com  - His book isavailable from his website as well as at Barnes and Noble bookstores.