Health & Pain Management

Alexander Technique for Health and Pain Management

“The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.”

— Robertson Davies, Novelist

 

The Alexander Technique can help you maintain youthfulness, ease of movement and balance as you age.

When we are in pain we adopt new movements while we are healing. Over time, these new movements are no longer useful. We can learn to relinquish them and restore our natural coordination by studying the Alexander Technique.

The British Medical Journal showed in 2008 that lessons in the Alexander Technique reduced back pain by 85%.:

Randomized controlled trial of Alexander Technique lessons, exercise, and massage (ATEAM) for patients with chronic low back pain

Alexander Technique British Medical Journal Back Pain Study

The effects of Alexander Technique in the elderly: Technique and Balance in Elderly People.

The Alexander Technique helping Parkinson’s Disease: Alexander Technique and Parkinson's