Research Directory

Central mechanisms of muscle tone regulation: implications for pain and performance
Frontiers in Neuroscience 2024; 18: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2024.1511783 Cacciatore TW, Anderson DI, Cohen RG. PUBLISHED ABSTRACT Muscle tone represents a foundational property of the motor…
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Alexander Technique classes for tertiary music students: Student and teacher evaluations of pre- and post-test audiovisual recordings
International Journal of Music Education 2020b;38:194-207. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0255761419880007 Davies JJ. PUBLISHED ABSTRACT Tertiary music students show patterns of playing-related…
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Alexander Technique classes improve pain and performance factors in tertiary music students
Bodywork and Movement therapies 2020;24:1-7 Davies JJ. PUBLISHED ABSTRACT Background: Professional and student instrumental musicians experience high rates of playing-related pain (PR pain) and…
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I’ll figure it out myself! Musical theatre students’ enhanced knowledge of embodied learning processes through application of the Alexander Technique
Nordic Research in Music Education 2024; 5: https://doi.org/10.23865/nrme.v5.5650  Kvammen ACR and Hagen JK (2024). BRIEF SUMMARY This study explores how learning the Alexander Technique…
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Modern pain science and Alexander Technique: How might Alexander Technique reduce pain?
Kinesiology Review 2024; 13:548-577 Hodges M, Cohen RG, Cacciatore TW BRIEF SUMMARY The understanding of pain has undergone a revolution in the past few decades, from a fairly simple biomedical…
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