Back Care Awareness Week
11-15 October 2010
Wednesday 13 October 4.30 - 6.30pm
Drop In Information Session (Free Event) "Beyond the Box"
Home- Work- Play
Alexander Technique and Back Care
Venue: Darwin Hall (Meeting Room),
Heathcot Place
Lichfield WS13 6RQ
Most people 'know' how to pick up a box and we can all recite the 'straight back and bend the knees' mantra. What about the hidden lifts, bends and twists that aren't box-shaped?
Most of us don't think twice when lifting or moving everyday objects in and around our work places. What about the box files, the laptop and several cups of coffee, or reaching the top shelf?
When we are safely back home, out of a specific Health and Safety environment, we automatically perform hidden lifts and movements without thinking about it. We lift or move the shopping bags, a pile of washing, a tray of food, a piece of furniture, the toy box or even the children! Then there are those garden chores that involve bending and lifting. It isn't just lifting a heavy box we need to think about with regard to possible back injuries.
Chris Rapley MSTAT, Professional member of BackCare will be available to talk about Back Care and the Alexander Technique. Short informal talks will be given "Bending, lifting and carrying - what a difference the Alexander Technique makes" at 5pm & 6pm.
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International Alexander Awareness Week 18-24 October 2010:
Saturday 23 October 2-4pm
Introductory Course
Venue: Darwin Hall (Main Hall) - details as above
Cost: £20
Places are limited. Please call 01543 262346, or email chris.rapley@dsl.pipex.com to request a booking form
Interesting quote, very relevant to the Alexander Technique:
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do
to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."
R.D. Laing
News about the ATeam Randomized controlled trial of Alexander Lessons:
An end to back pain! "Lessons in the Alexander Technique have long-term benefits for chronic back pain sufferers".
New Clinical Research British Medical Journal 19 August 2008
Significant long-term benefit from Alexander
Technique lessons for low back pain has been demonstrated by a major study
published by the British Medical Journal on 19th
August 2008
Scientific randomized controlled trial of
Alexander Technique lessons,
Exercise And Massage (ATEAM)
for chronic and recurrent back pain
579 patients with chronic or recurrent low back pain; 144
were randomised to normal care, 147 to massage,
144 to six Alexander technique lessons, and 144 to 24
Alexander technique lessons;
half of each of these groups were randomised to
exercise prescription.
Click below link to read the full report :