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Posture, Pains and Backache, Stress

The Alexander Technique is very effective for improving posture, although probably not in the way that you expect.

The Alexander Technique improves posture by improving your use of yourself as a whole. Through learning to use ourselves as nature intended we become more upright, more open and more free of unnecessary tension in everything we do.

A consequence of this is better posture.

Backache & Pains
The human body has an amazing ability to recover from injury and postural habits that align the skeleton efficiently and allow the muscles to be used in a balanced way will optimise your bodies ability to recover from a back problem. Good use is also the best way to avoid a recurrence of back problems. Bad use, on the other hand, can actually stop your back recovering.

Perhaps you have hurt your lower back by bending to lift something heavy badly and you have been diagnosed as having damaged an intervertebral disc causing sciatica. You have damaged the structure of the spine, therefore how you align and muscularly support these structures will either help or hinder your recovery.

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