Growing evidence suggests that learning Alexander technique (AT) can reduce musculoskeletal pain, including knee pain,1 back pain,2 and neck pain.3 However, the mechanisms by which AT works are still not well understood. The studies reported here addressed two major questions related to the mechanisms of AT. The first question was […]
Category: Posture
Short Video: How does the Alexander Technique work? Towards a scientific model
This video was commissioned by the FM Alexander Trust from Sci Ani (Science Animated) to explain the scientific paper by Cacciatore, Johnson, and Cohen. The animation illustrates the paper’s central proposition, that changes to postural tone and body schema underlie many of the reported benefits of the Alexander Technique. It […]
A Scientific Investigation into Violin and Viola Playing
Guest author Dr. Alison Loram describes her Master’s Thesis research about the effect of Alexander Technique inspired interventions on patterns of movement and tension.
アレクサンダー・テクニークの潜在的なメカニズム：包括的な神経生理学的モデルに向け て
This post offers links to a translation of the recent kinesiology review article on the mechanisms of Alexander technique.
Potential Mechanisms of the Alexander Technique: Toward a Comprehensive Neurophysiological Model
By Timothy W. Cacciatore, Patrick M. Johnson, and Rajal G. Cohen Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of a new scientific model of the Alexander Technique published in the Kinesiology Review. A pdf of the full paper can be read here. Read the Japanese translation here Abstract The Alexander Technique […]
A History of Magnus in the Alexander Technique
Editor’s Note: “A History of Magnus in the Alexander Technique” was originally published in the AmSAT Journal, Vol 15, Summer 2019. pp. 29–35. pdf version The discovery by Rudolf Magnus of a “central control” for some postural mechanisms has been used by F.M. Alexander and others as scientific support or […]
Book Review: Postural Homeostasis—Papers and Letters on the Alexander Technique by Wilfred Barlow
Editors Note: Postural Homeostasis is a collection of Dr Wilfred Barlow’s writings on the Alexander Technique from 1944 to 1982. Barlow attempted some of the first studies of the Alexander Technique, and many of his papers were published in journals such as The British Medical Journal and The Lancet. Barlow is a figure […]