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Alexander Technique in Brighton, Hove & Sussex

Peter Mansfield Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 424752 | 3, St. Aubyns Rd, Portslade, Brighton, East Sussex BN41 1AB

Regina Nening Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 728001 | Flat 1, Clarendon Villas, Hove, East Sussex BN3 3RB

Claudia Weiss Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 693202 | 75, Southover St, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 9UE

Deborah Birnie Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 685873 | 55, Queens Park Rd, Brighton, East Sussex

Clare Hughes Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 623460 | 155, Ditchling Rise, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4QQ

Juliet Cox M.S.T.A.T. Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 387862 | 2, Sillwood Terrace, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 2LR

Kay McKeown M.S.T.A.T Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 306616 | 62, Dean Court Rd, Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 7DJ

Sarah Child MSTAT Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 622950 | 18, Arnold St, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 9XT

Sally Rollings Alexander Technique Tel: 01903 532691 | 8, Sea Close, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, West Sussex BN12 4BQ

Liz Jeffries Alexander Technique - Tel: 01424 465838 | 25, Tower Rd West, St. Leornards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN38 0RJ

SussexAlexanderTechnique.co.uk Alexander Technique - Tel: 01342 825000 | Highgate Works, Tomtits Lane, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5AT

Alexander Technique Partnership Alexander Technique - Tel: 01323 490721 | Flat B, 30, Esplanade, Seaford, East Sussex BN25 1JJ

Jen Bridges Alexander Technique - Tel: 01273 813627 | The Yews, Lewes Rd, Ringmer, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 5ET

Fiona Andrews GRSM, MSTAT Alexander Technique - Tel: 01323 648451 | 81, Vicarage Rd, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN20 8AH

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Chronic back pain, which causes probably more disability and days off work than any other health condition, can be eased through teaching better posture via the Alexander technique, doctors say. Back pain is notoriously difficult to treat and many people suffer from it for years. It is the biggest cause of sickness absence in the UK and some people are unable to work at all. Lower back pain affects seven in 10 people at some time in their lives. A study published online today by the British Medical Journal, referring to a trial with 500 patients, offers some hope. The experiment, run by researchers at the universities of Southampton and Bristol, found that patients who were taught Alexander technique and combined it with exercise were significantly better at the end of a year. The technique helps align the head, neck and back muscles. The patients reported less pain and a better quality of life after taking up the technique, and some said they were able to do things which previously had been difficult - such as walking normally, getting out and about, and doing household jobs. Professor Paul Little of Southampton's faculty of medicine and his colleagues recruited 579 patients from 64 GP practices in the south and west of England. Each practice wrote to a random selection of patients who had seen a doctor because of recurrent back pain over the previous five years. They excluded any with serious spinal disease and those who had tried the Alexander technique before. The patients were either given normal care, massage, six lessons of Alexander technique, or 24 lessons. Half the patients in each group were also given an exercise programme involving walking briskly for 30 minutes a day, five days a week. Massage relieved the pain for the first three months, but the benefit did not last. But patients who had been trained in the Alexander technique reported less pain and an ability to do more by the end of the year. Those who had had six lessons and stuck to an exercise routine did almost as well as those who had 24 lessons. Little said he was a little surprised at the result. "I had a pretty good suspicion that people who were well-motivated would do well with the technique, but you have to be committed to learning it for it to benefit you. I suspected most folks might not be that committed and so we might not show terribly much." Although most trials of back pain interventions have not had particularly good or convincing results, Little said this one was significant. "This is a good, large, trial. It is good enough evidence for people to take it seriously." Those who combined Alexander technique with exercise improved by about 40% to 45%, he said. Generally they had been limited in eight or nine activities, but at the end of the 12 months they could do three or four of those without restriction. "It's a simple, cheap intervention," said Little. "But at the moment the Alexander technique is not available on the NHS." The cost was about £30 a lesson, he said, which would make even a six-lesson course something of a bargain if it cut the amount of NHS time and resources taken up by back pain sufferers.