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How the Alexander Technique can help with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

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The Importance of Balance in RA Patients

RA patients are generally advised to use larger joints than smaller ones. The hip joint is the biggest of all in our body, isn't it? So that kind of fits in with that philosophy of using your body in the best way possible given what the constraints on you are. You still, many times, can create this monkey business, but because we work so carefully with balance and the counterbalances that are built into the body, when the knees go forward and the hips go back, the weight is distributed more evenly over those joints. Yes, exactly.

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