Back Pain · Hip Pain · Sciatica · Headaches

Dealing Effectively
with Pain

If you've tried physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropracty, drugs, massage, surgery or acupuncture and still end up in the same old fix, you haven't tried Alexander Technique.

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A Skill for Life

Learning the Alexander Technique is a great way to manage or remove many pain problems. It works by teaching you how to go about everything you do with less tension and less effort. My clients are often delighted to find out just how easy it can be. By moving with less effort, you're putting a lot less strain on your joints and muscles, so everything feels lighter and easier. That's the trademark of a good Alexander Technique session: you feel a lot lighter and everything takes less effort.

It really is a skill for life. In a series of zero-effort sessions, you'll learn to sense the muscular tightening that naturally accompanies pain. You'll learn how to release that tension, so you're not making the issue worse by stiffening around the pain.

Your body adapts to habits: sitting, standing, driving, using a phone, using the computer, even just watching TV. Alexander Technique looks for the ways you act and move, and teaches you to avoid the bad habits, or to do them with a lot less tension. So a lot of the causes of pain and malfunction are removed.

What to Expect

There's no quick fix here, although often James has helped people to ditch back, neck, hip or knee pain, sciatica, and headaches after just a few sessions. Sometimes it happens quickly; for other people it takes longer.

It's important to be honest: if there's a significant injury or physical problem, Alexander Technique may not be able to help. But if your pain is the result of bad habits, as is the case with most back and neck pain, there's a good chance it will. Make sure you've seen a GP to rule out any serious underlying condition.

"97% of people with back pain could benefit by learning the Alexander Technique; it is only a very small minority of back pain sufferers that require medical intervention such as surgery."

Jack Stern MD, Spinal Neurosurgeon

Pain Clinics and Alexander Technique

A high-quality clinical trial at St Michael's Hospital Bristol found significant NHS cost savings for pain clinics offering Alexander Technique. Funded by the Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative, the trial focused on patients with chronic or recurrent pain who received six weekly one-to-one Alexander Technique lessons.

More than half of the participants halted or reduced the pain medication they were taking
Most patients liked the lessons and benefited in terms of their daily relationship with pain
Patients rated Alexander Technique the best of 13 activities in a pain management clinic (Fisher K et al., 1988)
Substantial reduction in pain-related NHS costs was demonstrated

"An extremely sophisticated form of rehabilitation."

Professor N. Tinbergen

Nobel Prize Speech for Medicine

What Clients Say

"I didn't believe that I could be saved from the pain, I had tried so much and it hadn't made any difference... When I left the lesson, I was so shocked, I was left feeling like I was on cloud 9. My body was like a blank canvas and I was starting from scratch with how to do everything. I began crying outside the surgery as all this stress and tension that I myself had created in my body was released. I feel annoyed that I have wasted so much time being in pain when I could have sorted it earlier."

Edie Moss

Stockport

"From Friday I have had NO PAIN in my hips!!! I have slept through the night with no pain disturbing me, no shooting pains in either hip. AMAZING… can't wait for more treatment on the rest of me now."

June

Weight Watchers leader · Cheshire

"I first went to see James because I had been suffering from painful sciatica. My doctor had prescribed pain killers but although these helped a little with the pain they did nothing to cure the underlying problem. After 2 sessions there was a noticeable difference and after another two the pain had completely gone."

Barbara Horne

Heaton Mersey · Sciatica

"After six sessions I can feel a positive change and look forward to further sessions. Conditions improved: increased awareness, reduced pain, reduced stress, improved happiness and improved energy."

Alan

Marple

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