Avoiding “The Price of Pain”
This Feb 12th Newsweek story: “The Price of Pain” is just one example of a life devastated by not knowing what to do to solve a simple problem of back pain.
It quotes the Journal of the American Medical Association: “In 2005 Americans spent $85.9 billion looking for relief from back and neck pain”. What it doesn’t say (because, like most people, neither the JAMA article nor the Newsweek article authors know about it), is that this suffering and enormous expense is avoidable.
We Alexander teachers have been saying so for years but, until they come and find out for themselves, nobody believes us. Now, however, there’s top quality medical research published by the British Medical Journal that fully backs us up. The research was found to be so important, it’s actually on the cover of the BMJ’s August 2008 issue, as you can see here.
Do you know anybody who needs help for their back problem?
Then show them this gold standard medical research. Show them that real, honest-to-goodness help is available. Here’s a link to the research: British Medical Journal medical trial of Alexander Technique
And do you know why this research happened, why a seasoned, medical researcher decided to undertake it? It was because his wife and his wife’s mother both had Alexander Technique lessons and he saw at first hand what a huge difference it made to both of them.
So please read the evidence — and please show it to your friends and family. Anywhere you post online, please mention it — and link to this post.
Do it now. Do it for their sake.
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