Articles by Mark Josefsberg
Have you noticed the pharmaceutical commercials where the list of potential side effects seems to go on and on? Many of them sound worse than the original condition the drugs are supposed to treat! I …
The Alexander Technique is a way to reduce back pain. It’s a way to reduce neck pain. A way to have better posture. It’s psychophysical re-education…
How many times do we lift our arms and use our hands throughout the day? Countless times, and every time we lift them from our sides, we want to utilize principles of the Alexander Technique. …
Alexander Technique Balance and Poise
The Alexander Technique and balance are related on multiple levels.
On February 17th, 2008 I was hiking in the woods in upstate New York. There was snow on the ground, the trees …
Give Me My Props
Although the Alexander Technique is concerned with the use of the self, (the title of one of F.M. Alexander’s books) if there are props around why not use them? If you need a …
When a company hires ergonomic specialists, they will come into your workplace and make some observations. They will determine whether the furniture is ergonomically sound, and set up properly.
For example, they may say that the …
Things Are Looking Up
Do you ever notice what you look at when you’re walking outdoors? …
For quite a while now we’ve been spending less time writing and more time at the computer. Writing, however, provides us another opportunity to become aware of our habits. Since most of our writing is …
One of the most painful positions for a person with low back pain is to be seated. We all tend to slump; putting ourselves in a ‘C curve’. Often times when we’re not slumping we’re sitting up rigidly straight with the idea of ‘good posture’. Neither of these positions…
Sometimes when we go we go these people we are put in weird positions, and I’m not talking about having to foot the bill.
Which reminds me of one more: Podiatrists. The weird position I’m talking …
