{"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":"

In an interview with Robert Rickover<\/a>, Alexander Technique teacher Michael Ostrow says: “I started working with people with bad breathing problems. I’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 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’t need the inhaler. Eventually, I think it will go away.<\/p>\n

“Many of the names people have for these disorders, from an Alexander point of view, they’re just bad habits. They’re not a syndrome. They’re bad habits we can change.”<\/p>\n

Robert: “They’re bad habits that manifest in a certain way and get categorized by this way of manifestation.”<\/p>\n

Michael: “They think it is this thing and it gets treated by various medications.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Robert Rickover, Alexander Technique teacher Michael Ostrow says: “I started working with people with bad breathing problems. I’ve been amazed at how people with asthma can have their breathing quiet down quickly and they can get … Continue reading →<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t