{"id":38420,"date":"2011-11-26T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=38420"},"modified":"2011-11-26T20:30:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:30:22","slug":"when-bad-habits-get-misdiagnosed-as-syndromes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=38420","title":{"rendered":"When Bad Habits Get Misdiagnosed As Syndromes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/bodylearning.buzzsprout.com\/382\/35918-how-the-alexander-technique-can-help-you-breathe-and-speak-more-effectively\">In an interview with Robert Rickover<\/a>, Alexander Technique teacher Michael Ostrow says: &#8220;I started working with people with bad breathing problems. I&#8217;ve been amazed at how people with asthma can have their breathing quiet down quickly and they can get off inhalers. I had someone with <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spasmodic_dysphonia\">spasmodic dysphonia<\/a> (strangled voice that comes with bad breathing and bad voice patterns) and she was also diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe, and within a few months [of Alexander lessons], they did a breathing test and it was down to mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She doesn&#8217;t need the inhaler. Eventually, I think it will go away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of the names people have for these disorders, from an Alexander point of view, they&#8217;re just bad habits. They&#8217;re not a syndrome. They&#8217;re bad habits we can change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert: &#8220;They&#8217;re bad habits that manifest in a certain way and get categorized by this way of manifestation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael: &#8220;They think it is this thing and it gets treated by various medications.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Robert Rickover, Alexander Technique teacher Michael Ostrow says: &#8220;I started working with people with bad breathing problems. I&#8217;ve been amazed at how people with asthma can have their breathing quiet down quickly and they can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=38420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[21683,28276,16394,28277,28278,19784],"class_list":["post-38420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique","tag-alexander-lessons","tag-alexander-point","tag-alexander-technique-teacher","tag-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease","tag-obstructive-pulmonary-disease","tag-robert-rickover"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}