Research Directory

Older adult Alexander Technique practitioners walk differently to healthy age-matched controls

Journal of Body & Movement Therapies (2016). In Press Hamel, KA, Ross C, Schultz B, O'Neill M, Anderson DI. BRIEF SUMMARY This is the second paper to come out of a study comparing the movement…

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016;17:372. Preece SJ, Jones RK, Brown CA, Cacciatore TW, Jones AKP. BRIEF SUMMARY Background: Knee osteoarthritis is a common condition affecting more than one in ten…

Annals of Internal Medicine 2015;163:653-62 MacPherson H, Tilbrook H, Richmond S, Woodman J, Ballard K, Atkin K, Bland M, Eldred J, Essex H, Hewitt C, Hopton A, Keding A, Lansdown H, Parrott S,…

Help with pain

Effects of Alexander Technique training experience on gait behaviour in older adults

Journal of Body & Movement Therapies 2015;19:473–481 O'Neil M, Anderson D, Allen D, Ross C, Hamel K   BRIEF SUMMARY Balance in movement (dynamic stability) is often impaired in older people.…

Growing Old

Can the Alexander Technique improve balance and mobility in older adults with visual impairments? A randomized controlled trial

Clinical Rehabilitation 2015;29:244–60 Gleeson M, Sherrington C, Lo S, Keay L. BRIEF SUMMARY In this trial involving people aged over 50 years with impaired vision, 120 participants were…

Growing Old

What is the Alexander Technique?

sidebar

At about the age of 45, I began to experience severe pain in both of my knees. I was told I had damaged the cartilage, initially caused by the use of a kicking strap on a sailing dinghy, and made worse by many years of beagling, and to stop beagling or risk ending up in a wheelchair. A few years later a friend suggested the Alexander Technique. At first I was very sceptical, but had also reached the stage where I was ready to try virtually any means to solve the problem. A few weeks after my first lesson, I had gone out beagling, but only walking.

Chris Walsh

See the benefits of Alexander Technique