Chronic pain management

If you suffer from chronic pain, you've probably sought out many approaches in a frustrating search for relief. Depending on your condition, you may have tried chiroprathy, drugs, massage or surgery. Each of these treatments can play an important role in recovery, but the Alexander Technique's unique contribution is education, offering you a way to reduce or eliminate your pain and the need for remedies.

Pain is a signal from the body, information about where there is injury. Continual pain is the ultimate distraction, draining your resources, limiting how you relate and function. It can often lead to anxiety, depression or disturbed sleep. No longer just the body's response to a problem, it becomes the problem itself.

The Alexander Technique gives you a way to better understand how your body works. Through a course of one-on-one sessions with a teacher, you gain a sense of control over your tension and stress responses. You learn to attend to areas of pain and reduce the muscular compression that compounds it. If the source of your pain is postural or muscular, the Technique may give you the means to eliminate it completely. You learn how to return your body and mind to balance. As you shift your entire system from a state of alarm to calm, you lessen your pain and give your body a chance to heal.

A proven form of self-care, the Alexander Technique helps you find long-term relief without the side effects of drugs or the physical cost of surgery. In a 1988 British study of chronic pain sufferers, the Alexander Technique was chosen as the number one pain management method. A year after this study was completed; participants still chose it as the best way to reduce pain.