Re: Managing back pain and osteoarthritis without paracetamol
It is now nearly 7 years since the BMJ published a large RCT* showing substantial long term benefit to patients with chronic or recurring low back pain from a course of 24 individual Alexander Technique lessons (the average number of days in pain fell from 21 per month to 3 per month, with the results better at 1 year than they were at 3 months). A recent pilot trial in knee osteoarthritis demonstrated considerable benefit from 1:1 Alexander Technique lessons, see also **,and a RCT is under way in the north of England on this topic. How much longer do patients have to wait for this method to appear in the NICE guidelines for chronic back pain and OA?
*BMJ 2008:337:a884
**Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2013; 21 (Suppl): S106.
Competing interests:
I am a medical doctor and a teacher of the Alexander Technique
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Re: Managing back pain and osteoarthritis without paracetamol
It is now nearly 7 years since the BMJ published a large RCT* showing substantial long term benefit to patients with chronic or recurring low back pain from a course of 24 individual Alexander Technique lessons (the average number of days in pain fell from 21 per month to 3 per month, with the results better at 1 year than they were at 3 months). A recent pilot trial in knee osteoarthritis demonstrated considerable benefit from 1:1 Alexander Technique lessons, see also **,and a RCT is under way in the north of England on this topic. How much longer do patients have to wait for this method to appear in the NICE guidelines for chronic back pain and OA?
*BMJ 2008:337:a884
**Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2013; 21 (Suppl): S106.
Competing interests: I am a medical doctor and a teacher of the Alexander Technique