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Alexander Technique—The Balanced Approach to Back Care

The Alexander Technique is helpful in relieving pain from many muskulo-skeletal and nervous system problems. The Technique’s approach to pain relief is education, not treatment. People who use chiropractic, drugs, surgery, physical therapy or any other therapy can benefit from learning the skills taught by an Alexander teacher.

Pain is your body’s signal that an illness, injury or tension needs your attention. An instinctive reaction to pain is muscular compression, which lessens sensation. As important as this reaction is during an initial injury, if left to continue, it has negative affects on the body’s ability to heal itself and can even make the problem worse.

In Alexander lessons, you bring more awareness to what is happening in your body, and learn how to reduce muscular tension and compression through conscious guidance from your brain to your nervous system. As your tension lessens and your muscles ease their contracted state, your ability to direct your body into balance and ease continues to increase, breaking the pain cycle and allowing the body to heal. You are able to move beyond temporary pain relief into long-term pain management and prevention.

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Arthritis: Many people who suffer from arthritic pain don’t realize that the way they use their bodies and think about their movement can profoundly increase mobility and range of motion, as well as lessen pain. By learning the Alexander Technique, much in their daily lives can be improved.

Back Problems: One of the most effective approaches to chronic back pain, the Alexander Technique teaches you how to move through your daily routine or exercises with better understanding of what is happening anatomically and muscularly and how to help your back work to it’s best condition.

Postural Problems: An Alexander Technique teacher uses a gentle guiding hand to help students into a healthy relationship of the head, neck and back. Getting a new proprioceptive sense experience from the teacher, the student learns to activate their own dynamic postural reflexes into a healthier coordination.

Repetitive Strain Injury: An excellent tool to learn in recovering from (or preventing!) RSI and carpal tunnel syndrome, the Alexander Technique teaches refined awareness of the excess strain that people unknowingly add to repetitive movements, and teaches how to perform those movements with comfort.

The Alexander Technique in the Workplace

Pain Relief/Alexander links:

alexandertechnique.com/articles/backpain
alexanderworks.org/back_pain.html

RSI injuries

alexandertechnique.com/rsi.htm

“I found the Technique to be so beneficial in alleviating my own condition that I have been referring some of my patients for Alexander lessons for several years.”

Howard L. Rosner, MD
Director, Pain Management Service
The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY