{"id":997,"date":"2013-05-02T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/?p=997"},"modified":"2013-05-02T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:05:28","slug":"care-seminar-the-benefits-of-alexander-technique-lessons-for-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/2013\/05\/02\/care-seminar-the-benefits-of-alexander-technique-lessons-for-chronic-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"CARE Seminar: The benefits of Alexander Technique lessons for chronic pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #222222\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 18th<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #222222\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #222222\">June 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #222222\"><strong>Place:<\/strong> Board Room, South Plaza, Bristol<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #222222\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 12:00 - 2:00pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #222222\">UWE Bristol researcher Dr Stuart McClean, working in collaboration with Dr Lesley Wye from the University of Bristol, health practitioners and The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) carried out an exploratory study of a time-limited Alexander Technique teaching service, as an additional pain management option in the Pain Clinic at St Michael\u2019s Hospital, Bristol.<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">More than half of the service users in the study stopped or reduced their use of medications between the start of the lessons and three months, making cost savings to the NHS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #222222\">In a follow-up to their presentation at the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #222222\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;color: #222222\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apcrc.nhs.uk\/care_seminars\/11-05.htm\"><span>May 2011 CARE seminar<\/span><\/a>, Dr McClean and Dr Wye return to present their latest findings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\">Everyone is welcome. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available. Please feel free to bring your packed lunch. To book places please complete the survey at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/carejune13\" target=\"_blank\">www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/carejune13<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\"> &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/carejune13\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/carejune13<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\">&gt;. If you have any comments or questions please contact <\/span><a href=\"mailto:research@apcrc.nhs.uk\" target=\"_blank\">research@apcrc.nhs.uk<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\"> &lt;mailto:<\/span><a href=\"mailto:research@apcrc.nhs.uk\" target=\"_blank\">research@apcrc.nhs.uk<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\">?<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\">subject=December%20CARE%<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\">20semi<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\">nar%20query&gt;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;font-family: arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 18th June 2013 Place: Board Room, South Plaza, Bristol Time: 12:00 - 2:00pm UWE Bristol researcher Dr Stuart McClean, working in collaboration with Dr Lesley Wye from the University of Bristol, health practitioners and The Society of Teachers of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brd"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}