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Back pain can spoil the quality of life that you have lived before it strikes you. Its onset can be sudden or gradual and the pain that you bear because of it is often quite debilitating in nature. If you find that medical treatment is not able to reduce the intensity of your back pain, you can try the Alexander Technique (AT).
Alexander Technique is a method that you can use to make yourself aware about your postural patterns. It is a technique use of which makes you also aware of how the various daily muscular movements that you engage in goes towards change in stress levels in your back.
It can help you to gauge exactly what changes you need to make in your daily repertoire of muscular movements. It works for you to enable you to decide the changes that you need to make in your daily activity so as to decrease stress on your back and thereby cause reduction in back pain.
The program is devised for self awareness and for specific self treatment. It helps you by opening up your mind to muscular movements that you need to eschew to reduce the tendency towards ingrained back pain.
The Alexander Technique was developed in the 1890s by an Australian actor Frederick Alexander. He devised it to overcome the fear of hoarseness of voice which he felt would finish off his career. He devised the technique for he had found that tensions in his neck and head as also in his entire musculonervous system caused strain in his vocal chords.
Through the use of Alexander Technique you can develop harmonious movement of muscle groups that avoids overstress, balance, and coordination. When you do that it builds your kinesthetic skills and makes your mind more receptive to those postures and muscle movements that helps avoid stress in the neck and in the back. AT really educates you in the art of body mechanics.
This technique is a journey in self perception. It helps you to know what exactly is happening to your muscles and joints based on every muscle that you move. Through Alexander Technique, you gain an insight into how your pattern of thinking affects the various joints and muscles in your body. AT rightly presupposes that there is a direct link between the state of your mind and the stress levels in your bodily joints and muscles.
Alexander Technique therefore works by bringing about a drastic change in the way that your mind thinks. It helps you to change your emotional response to events so as to bring about reduced emotional stress. When emotional stress is reduced it directly helps to reduce the physical stresses in your body.
AT when used with a harmonious regime of exercises helps you to gradually master back pain. It helps you to perform some of the activities without discomfort, which you thought impossible while you had been beset with great back pain.
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