Neck Pain
Many of my pupils and pupils of other Alexander teachers have experienced long term help with their neck and shoulder pains - not a 'quick fix' - rather a growing understanding of what they were unwittingly doing to be contributing to their own pain and learning how to prevent those unconscious patterns happening over time. Because the Alexander Technique is something you learn rather than 'have done to you', this new understanding is a skill for life.
Chronic Neck Pain Study
There is an ongoing trial (called ATLAS) being done at York University that started in 2011 looking at whether the Alexander Technique or acupuncture can be clinically proven to improve chronic neck pain. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the Alexander Technique may be at least as effective for neck pain as for back pain.
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Scientific study on Alexander Technique and neck pain
There is an ongoing trial (called ATLAS) being done at York University that started in 2011 looking at whether the Alexander Technique or acupuncture can be clinically proven to improve chronic neck pain. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the Alexander Technique may be at least as effective for neck pain as for back pain.
For more information click here:
Scientific study on Alexander Technique and neck pain
Christine's story:
When I began learning the Alexander Technique I had been suffering from chronic head and neck pain for four and a half years after a head injury and car accident. I had tried many other ways of controlling the pain, some methods would work for a short time but none had worked permanently. Learning the Alexander Technique with Penny over a period of time the pain in my head and neck subsided and I am now out of pain. Learning the Alexander Technique has not only helped me manage the head and neck pain but it has also helped me with the pain I was suffering in my lower back and knee. As an artist I have recognised how the Alexander Technique relates to the creative process and I have found that the technique has opened up ways of developing my own creativity."
C Kinsey - Artist
When I began learning the Alexander Technique I had been suffering from chronic head and neck pain for four and a half years after a head injury and car accident. I had tried many other ways of controlling the pain, some methods would work for a short time but none had worked permanently. Learning the Alexander Technique with Penny over a period of time the pain in my head and neck subsided and I am now out of pain. Learning the Alexander Technique has not only helped me manage the head and neck pain but it has also helped me with the pain I was suffering in my lower back and knee. As an artist I have recognised how the Alexander Technique relates to the creative process and I have found that the technique has opened up ways of developing my own creativity."
C Kinsey - Artist
