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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE FOR MAMMOGRAPHERS


6 May 2014 • SCoR Headquarters, London


This interactive practical workshop is an introduction to the Alexander Technique as an educational training programme and specifically its application to working as a mammographer and specific back and lower and upper limb misuse.


The Technique makes the individual aware of the way the body and mind are ‘used’ in all activities and specifically of tensions building up when stressed or working under pressure. The Alexander Technique will teach you to identify your bad postural habits. Once you have become aware of when you are using the body inefficiently, a new way of using yourself can be introduced, to facilitate the release of tensions and a better way of performing the numerous activities carried out every day.


Workshop outline


The workshop, led by practitioners accredited by the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT), will be split into morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session will cover the principles of the Alexander Technique and there will be guided activities to demonstrate the Technique’s practical applications to work tasks.


The afternoon session will be practical, with a demonstration and practice of the Technique’s semi-supine procedure.


Delegates will then be split into two groups and teachers will give individual hands-on work to all participants.


The morning activities’ applications will be looked at with individual feedback, and questions and answers.


The Technique is a practical method which involves the participants taking part through direct and individual hands-on work from the teachers. Each person will receive guidance in self-observation of his/her own inefficient habits of posture and be guided to learn by observation of the movements of others, with assistance from the teachers.


Learning outcomes Participants will gain the following from this course:


• An understanding of the Alexander principle that the way you ‘use’ yourself influences how you function in everyday life as well as at work


• Recognise patterns of posture and movement, which may be causing excessive tension, aches and pains, restricted movement, stiff joints, etc


• Recognise the importance of adopting a better postural support for a more efficient use of the body


• Learn to apply the Technique’s principles to daily tasks and gain coping skills for stressful work patterns


At the end of the workshop each participant will have had individual and group experience of how the Technique can deliver the above beneficial outcomes.


The number of attendees at these workshops is strictly limited in order to allow each participant to receive individual guidance and assessment in the practical procedures, a large amount of practical hands-on work - this one-to-one approach is a fundamental aspect of learning of the Alexander Technique - and a useful amount of practical instruction.


Background and scientific trials


Throughout life, most of us slowly and unconsciously develop bad postural habits that can eventually lead to back, neck and shoulder pain. These can cause upper and lower limb disorders and back pain to develop. Chronic postural tension affects everything we do and is often aggravated in the workplace by operating machinery and performing repetitive tasks.


The Alexander Technique works by re-organising the overall coordination of the body to improve postural support in movements.


A Service Evaluation of Alexander Technique Lessons for Pain Clinic Patients - An Approach to Pain Management Stuart McClean and Lesley Wye June 2012 - University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Health and Applied Social Sciences


Conclusions Over time, participants’ relationship to their pain may change as a result of Alexander Technique lessons, which may lead to reductions in medication use and other NHS pain-related costs.


A randomised factorial trial for patients with recurrent and chronic back pain of GP exercise prescription, the Alexander Technique and massage Professor Paul Little, Medical Research Council Clinical Scientist, Southampton University; Professor Debbie Sharp, Professor of Primary Care at Bristol University and senior MRC HSRC researcher


Alexander Technique provides long-term benefit for back pain sufferers, as shown by a clinical trial funded by the Medical Research Council - British Medical Journal, 20 August 2008.


Alexander Technique is included in NICE guidelines, May 2009


BOOK ONLINE at http://www.cvent.com/d/64q9ls This workshop will be led by practitioners accredited by the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT)


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