How To Reduce Neck Pain
We tense our necks, habitually.
The Alexander Technique teaches how to reduce neck tension; how to free your neck. Reducing neck tension reduces neck pain.
How do you free your neck? The same way we arable to free our bicep, or any other muscle. We do it all the time.
We’re not use to being able to control our neck muscles but, we can tighten them, and release them, and control them.
Reducing Neck Tension
We can learn to let go of the muscles thereby reducing the tension in the back of the neck. It takes information, thought, and practice. Neck freedom becomes habitual. You practice Alexander Technique principles in the course of your everyday life. You can reduce your neck tension anytime you want. You give yourself neck pain relief.
Heads, which can weigh ten or fifteen pounds, can put a lot of strain on our neck, especially if we habitually poke our neck forward. If the neck is poking forward (toward the computer screen for example), the muscles in the back of the neck are over-working all the time. You can reduce neck tension and neck pain by stopping the constant work of the neck muscles. The Alexander Technique will give you a method, and then you do it yourself at home, and everywhere else. For instance…
Alexander Technique Neck Pain Relief
Let your neck muscles free up, and let your head rotate slightly forward, and go up. Slightly, slowly, lower the tip of your nose while the crown of your head moves up.
Let your sit bones release down into the chair, in opposition to your head moving up. Neither slumping nor straining.
Reduce your neck tension.
Free your neck so that your head can rotate forward and up. You are reducing neck tension, to reduce neck pain.
By Mark Josefsberg
Mark Josefsberg-Alexander Technique NYC
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This is good, natural is always better than medications. Thanks for the information
I’m very glad you find it useful!
Mark
Hi, love Alexander Technique. I always encourage my patients to be proactive and to avail themselves of many methods they can use to improve their own health. However,at times muscle tension is a function of the body’s attempt to protect itself or to stabilize an underlying injury.
Having the help of a good chiropractor can be key to a full recovery, when dealing with neck pain.
Hi,
I also love the Alexander Technique, and I agree that muscle tension can have many causes. Whatever the cause, once people become aware and are willing to change they can learn how to release their own tension.
The Alexander Technique is amazingly practical, simple, logical, and you learn to do it yourself; you learn to reduce your own neck pain!
Mark
Wonderful article here. You’ve got a good search engine ranking too (I pulled you right up with Yahoo!) Good job; you deserve it.
Thanks, Sarah
Hope it helps
Mark
great article you’ve got here! concise and informative!
Thank you so much, Paul. I’m trying to make some involved concepts of the Alexander Technique simple, so that people can help themselves reduce their own neck pain.
Do you have a video demonstrating the Alexander Technique? I’m not sure I get it. Thanks.
Sure Jen,
Here’s an Alexander Technique video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOWmwhxFtJQ
Don’t forget how useful this work is for the voice. Super article for voice work. Thanks. Stuart.
Yes, the Alexander Technique was developed for the voice! It seems like the main reasons people learn the Alexander Technique now is to improve posture, and alleviate back pain and neck pain.