RSI / WRULD / OOS

Does it frustrate you that effective forms of help for RSI are hard to come by?

If it’s spoiling your life, you’re probably still struggling to find a solution.

Perhaps you’ve tried many of the recommended forms of exercise or had osteopathy or chiropractic sessions, meditation, or yoga, and not found an answer. Or perhaps they work for you in the short term but soon the pain returns.

Repetitive Strain Injury (Occupational Overuse Syndrome, Cumulative Trauma Disorder, Work-related Upper Limb Disorder) includes many different conditions and symptoms in the shoulders, arms, wrists and hands.

Many people recover using the Alexander Technique for RSI, leaving them able to do all those things that they were unable to because of the pain.

They have learned:

•    How to stop doing the things that make your RSI worse. Your pain levels dive as you recover.

•    How to get up to an inch or two taller. Your posture improves as your improvement rate speeds up.

•    How to be healthier. Your improved posture liberates space for your vital organs.

•    How to be happier. It’s much more rewarding to be free from pain.

•    Your new poise leaves you looking good and your taller torso makes your tummy look smaller.

The best way to get better from RSI is to help yourself. I can give you a personalised programme to recover from RSI. You’ll learn how to get better on your own, rather than relying on other people forever, by dramatically improving your posture and actions.

The effectiveness of the Alexander Technique is well documented and has been the subject of several scientific studies. It is increasingly recommended by doctors, and many medical insurance companies will pay for lessons if these are prescribed by a consultant

The RSI Association

The more you understand how good it feels to be free from pain, the more you’ll realise how much you can benefit from the Alexander Technique.

So how to you get rid of RSI with the Alexander Technique?

Alexander Technique teachers (like me!) are highly specialised and trained to gently and skillfully bring your head into its best relationship with the top of your spine. This allows tensions in the back, and then the whole body, to be released. You learn how to use your arms without tightening – how to use a computer with ease and no pain.

This means a more expansive, more fluid way of moving, resulting in less stress on your body – your muscles, your joints, and of course your mind. The Alexander teacher helps you to maintain this over time, until you’re able to practise the technique for yourself.

Learning The Alexander Technique gives the body time to heal.

The Problem

•    You have a work-related disorder (RSI, tendinitis, wrist pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, thumb strain, back or neck pain).

•    You need to earn a living, or are already unemployed.

•    No-one seems to be able to truly help, or the help is not enough.

•    Other people don’t seem to realise what a nightmare your RSI can be.

•    You get mixed messages about what works and what doesn’t.

The answer: You get me to…

•    Assess your symptoms

•    Give one-on-one help and support

•    Give written recommendations to your workplace

•    Do a workplace visit with observation and advice (if you want)

•    Help you learn to apply Alexander Technique for yourself

•    Give stretches and exercises tailored individually to you

You may be surprised to hear that often, the efforts you are making to relieve the pain of RSI actually make things worse. And you may also be surprised to hear that often your idea of stretching actually tightens muscles and makes the problem worse.

Using the Alexander Technique, I teach you how to promote your own recovery and can show you how to stretch appropriately so that you don’t cause more damage.

If you have ergonomic equipment, it won’t work as it’s supposed to unless you are using your body properly as well.

If you perform stretches and exercises but do not have good alignment and use of yourself in the process, you are often making matters worse.

I used to be in loads of pain from RSI, before I learned the Alexander Technique and liberated myself from it. Then I trained for full-time for 3 years to teach the Alexander Technique, which means I can help you too.

Call me on 0161 4316977 to find out more.

The Alexander Technique is named after FM Alexander and is a set of techniques that are aimed towards postural retraining. Essentially the technique will train your body into adopting a good posture, which will hopefully reduce or eradicate the risk of developing a repetitive strain injury. The method has been widely lauded among physicians as an effective treatment for RSI’s and medical insurance companies have been known to pay for RSI sufferer’s lessons in the Alexander Technique.

RepetitiveStrainInjury.org.uk