Back in Balance: Use the Alexander Technique to Combat Neck, Shoulder and Back Pain
An easy-to-understand guide on identifying the source of your back pain and finding solutions for long-lasting relief that work best for your body

According to recent figures, back pain has now reached epidemic proportions with millions of people across the globe experiencing severe muscular pain every year. In fact, over 4 million people now search “lower back pain” into Google every month. Most are suffering completely unnecessarily, as the root cause of their pain stems primarily from poor postural habits while performing everyday actions. But help is at hand with Back in Balance, an easy-to-understand practical book designed to help readers discover the cause of their own individual back problem and offer them an effective and lasting solution to their suffering. This essential guide draws on many of the principles of the Alexander Technique, a practical way of releasing muscular tension throughout the body.

Helping the reader to discover how their posture and movements may be having a detrimental effect on their health, this guide offers new ways of performing daily activities, with the aim of reducing muscular tension and stress on the bones and joints—and making their lives pain free.
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Back in Balance: Use the Alexander Technique to Combat Neck, Shoulder and Back Pain
An easy-to-understand guide on identifying the source of your back pain and finding solutions for long-lasting relief that work best for your body

According to recent figures, back pain has now reached epidemic proportions with millions of people across the globe experiencing severe muscular pain every year. In fact, over 4 million people now search “lower back pain” into Google every month. Most are suffering completely unnecessarily, as the root cause of their pain stems primarily from poor postural habits while performing everyday actions. But help is at hand with Back in Balance, an easy-to-understand practical book designed to help readers discover the cause of their own individual back problem and offer them an effective and lasting solution to their suffering. This essential guide draws on many of the principles of the Alexander Technique, a practical way of releasing muscular tension throughout the body.

Helping the reader to discover how their posture and movements may be having a detrimental effect on their health, this guide offers new ways of performing daily activities, with the aim of reducing muscular tension and stress on the bones and joints—and making their lives pain free.
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Back in Balance: Use the Alexander Technique to Combat Neck, Shoulder and Back Pain

Back in Balance: Use the Alexander Technique to Combat Neck, Shoulder and Back Pain

by Richard Brennan
Back in Balance: Use the Alexander Technique to Combat Neck, Shoulder and Back Pain

Back in Balance: Use the Alexander Technique to Combat Neck, Shoulder and Back Pain

by Richard Brennan

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An easy-to-understand guide on identifying the source of your back pain and finding solutions for long-lasting relief that work best for your body

According to recent figures, back pain has now reached epidemic proportions with millions of people across the globe experiencing severe muscular pain every year. In fact, over 4 million people now search “lower back pain” into Google every month. Most are suffering completely unnecessarily, as the root cause of their pain stems primarily from poor postural habits while performing everyday actions. But help is at hand with Back in Balance, an easy-to-understand practical book designed to help readers discover the cause of their own individual back problem and offer them an effective and lasting solution to their suffering. This essential guide draws on many of the principles of the Alexander Technique, a practical way of releasing muscular tension throughout the body.

Helping the reader to discover how their posture and movements may be having a detrimental effect on their health, this guide offers new ways of performing daily activities, with the aim of reducing muscular tension and stress on the bones and joints—and making their lives pain free.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786786746
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 04/12/2022
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.37(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Richard Brennan has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1989. He is the author of 5 books on the subject, including Change Your Posture, Change Your Life (Watkins) - all have been translated into eight languages and are on sale worldwide. Richard has also been featured in many newspapers and magazines and has appeared on BBC1 and RTE1. He travels throughout Europe and the USA giving presentations on the Alexander Technique, as well as being the director of Ireland's only Alexander Teacher Training College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Foreword ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Back Pain: The Modern Epidemic 5

Chapter 2 Understanding the Alexander Technique 17

Chapter 3 Are You Sitting Comfortably? 27

Chapter 4 Improving Posture 42

Chapter 5 The Power of Habit 51

Chapter 6 Faulty Sensory Awareness 65

Chapter 7 Pausing Before Action 76

Chapter 8 Directions 88

Chapter 9 Give Your Back a Rest 102

Chapter 10 Thinking in Activity 111

Chapter 11 Psycho-Physical Unity 126

Chapter 12 The Alexander Technique and the Medical World 134

Chapter 13 The Alexander Experience 156

Chapter 14 The Power of the Alexander Technique 164

Resources 200

Index 202

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