Knowledge of the sinew channels of Chinese medicine can help guide clinicians from where pain is felt to distal and proximal myofascial tissues that also may need treatment. Knowing the muscles, tendons, joints and ligaments of each jing-jin and how to examine and treat them is a valuable complement to the cross-sectional approach of contemporary orthopaedics, and opens up avenues to holistic rehabilitation from injuries, pain and disability: decreased muscle-tendon pain and tension, and improved strength and function; decreased joint pain, and increased flexibility and range-of-motion; and improved posture, movement, and biomechanics.