Transcription of POSTURAL REFLEXES H - Alexander Technique
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Alexander Technique scientific briefing THE ROLE OF THE POSTURAL REFLEXES in HEALTH AND WELL-BEING Gerald Foley DRAFT 11 July 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION 1: BACKGROUND ..3 Charles Sherrington and Rudolph Charles Sherrington .. 3 Rudolph Magnus .. 4 What is a reflex?..5 The question of posture ..7 SECTION 2: MAGNUS RESEARCH ..8 The research approach ..8 The vestibular apparatus .. 9 Magnus 10 Reflex Normal distribution of 11 Attitude .. 11 The righting REFLEXES .. 14 The optical righting REFLEXES ..15 A central nervous 17 SECTION 3: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE POSTURAL 20 Outside conscious 20 Continually recalibrating the 22 Co-opting and modifying the POSTURAL REFLEXES .. 24 Consequences of suppressing the POSTURAL REFLEXES ..25 SECTION 4: THE HEAD-NECK 28 Physiology of the head-neck 28 The sub-occipital A problem of 30 Effects of chronic excessive tension in the head-neck 31 SECTION 5: THE Alexander Technique .
1 INTRODUCTION If all the activity of the human body’s six hundred skeletal muscles were consciously controlled, very little would get done. Despite its enormous computing capacity, the
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