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August 22, 2008

Finally, A Cure For Chronic Back Pain?

If you don't suffer from back pain now, chances are you've either had it in the past or will get it in the future. Research studies show that seven in ten of us suffer from it at some time in our lives and it is one of the most common causes of sickness absence and disability in the western world. Even though the days when bed rest was the standard treatment for chronic back pain are long gone, the medical profession has yet to find a single effective solution that it can uniformly prescribe to remedy this condition.

But one back-pain treatment option for which there has been little funded research in the past is now making news in the medical community - the Alexander Technique (AT). AT sessions are usually one on one, and the onus is on exploration and awareness rather than on forcing and fixing things. The Alexander technique lessons involved "continuous personalized assessment of the individual patterns of habitual musculoskeletal use when stationary and in movement; paying particular attention to release of unwanted head, neck, and spinal muscle tension, guided by verbal instruction and hand contact, allowing decompression of the spine; help and feedback from hand contact and verbal instruction to improve musculoskeletal use when stationary and in movement," according to the study.

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