The Permanent Pain Cure presents a comprehensive self-therapy program for pain relief that you can do at home. The Ming Method works even for so-called serious problems such as a slipped disk, as well as for long-term problems that have resisted treatment for decades. Every lifestyle, ranging from high-level athlete to complete couch potato, has characteristic body problems that the Ming Method can relieve.

The Ming Method draws from Ming Chew’s knowledge of a wide range of healing modalities. As he says, “I’m a science guy,” trained as a physical therapist in the Western medical model (see his bio). But he has also intensively studied alternative therapies—especially a variety of techniques for releasing an important tissue called the fascia. And from his background as a Chinese American, he has a knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The unifying element in Ming’s work is his profound experiential knowledge of the body, gained in the gym and on the mats as a champion bodybuilder and practitioner of Brazilian jujitsu. Bodybuilders train every single part of the body—nothing is missed. As a result, Ming knows precisely how particular injuries are related to the way you practice a sport, sit at a desk, or do athletic training.

“For 25 years, I went out of my way to understand every aspect of the body that I could learn about,” Ming explains. “Then I synthesized it all into a system of my own.”

The result is the Ming Method, whose foundation is a series of special stretches to release tightness in fascia that causes pain. The method’s seven components are all essential for maximal results:

The Permanent Pain Cure teaches you to diagnose your own problem and provides individualized treatment programs that tell you which stretches and self-therapy techniques you need to heal your pain. Then you can do them all in only fifteen minutes a day.


What is fascia?

To understand why the Ming Method is so powerful and effective, you need to know a bit about the fascia. This least known of all tissues—almost completely ignored in medical schools and physical therapy training—consists of tough sheets of connective fibers that envelop and weave through every muscle, nerve, and organ. Fascia is a universal tissue that ties your whole body together. It enables you to maintain correct posture, holds your organs in place, prevents muscles from tearing, and tethers tendons to bone, giving the muscles the mechanical stability they need to contract forcefully.

For muscles and joints to function properly, the fascia and nervous system must both be healthy. This means moist, soft, flexible fascia and nerves that send full-strength signals to the muscles. Injury, overuse, and underuse can all result in tight, restricted fascia that shuts off nerves, weakens muscles, restricts movement, and causes inflammation—and pain. What the special Ming Method stretches do is release scar tissue in your fascia that prevents muscles and nerves from working properly.

The big difference between the Ming Method and traditional orthopedic medicine and physical therapy is that they don’t address the fascia. Most doctors just scratch their heads if you mention fascia—they never learned about it in medical school. But fascial release is a great alternative to the standard medical model.

Are you aware that surgery itself is an injury? It creates scar tissue, which is exactly what the Ming Method is designed to get rid of. Scars naturally contract toward their own center, pulling the surrounding tissues with them. If these tissues include a nerve or joint, the result is pain and restricted movement. That’s one reason why surgery often fails to resolve pain and can even make it worse. Surgery should always be your last option.


You are your own best therapist

Ming’s purpose in The Permanent Pain Cure is to empower you with the knowledge that for the great majority of orthopedic pain conditions, you can cure yourself. The Ming Method goes way beyond regular exercise or physical therapy programs. Its seven components make it a complete healing system that will restore your tissue to a healthy state and keep it that way for good, sparing you many unnecessary medications, possibly unnecessary surgery, and a whole lot of misery