F. M. Alexander-technique

Author(s): Schubmann, R.

Journal/Book: Physikalische Medizin Rehabilitationsmedizin Kurortmedizin. 1994; 4/1: 27-29.

Abstract: Many people suffer from muscle hypertension and back pain. In a large number of cases, these pain are not congenital but are the result of cultivated misuse of the body over several years, sometimes throughout the better part of a lifetime. The F. M. Alexander-technique, named after its founder F. Matthias Alexander, is a previously hardly known training which starts at problems in movement and posture at their sources: the patient's movement patterns are analysed in private lessons by a certified Alexander-technique teacher, and then gradually corrected and optimised.The technique was originally developed to deal with the problem faced in performance by actors and musicians. In the meantime, however, E M. Alexander's findings have been successfully applied to the treatment of such ailments as chronic back pain and migraine. The technique can also be well integrated in the fields of both neurologic and orthopaedic rehabilitation.

Keyword(s): Alexander-technique

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