Introduction ATLAS was a pragmatic randomised (1:1:1 ratio), controlled trial recruiting patients with chronic neck pain (N = 517) and evaluating one-to-one Alexander Technique lessons, or acupuncture, each plus usual care, compared with usual care alone. The primary outcome (12-month Northwick Park Neck Pain Questionnaire [NPQ]) demonstrated significant and clinically meaningful reductions in ...

We will discuss a technique to distinguish knots via an algebraic invariant, namely the Alexander module, which is a module associated to the universal abelian cover of the complement of a knot. We will present a generalization of the Alexander module by constructing modules corresponding to different regular covering spaces of the knot complement. We will present a numerical invariant that can...

Unsigned article in the British Medical Journal, no. 3282, 24 November 1923, pp. 1001-02. This paper is probably the first knowledge F. M. Alexander would have had of Rudolf Magnus’s research. This article is featured in the same issue which contained a report on the ‘Nervous Child’ with a contribution by Dr Peter Macdonald which mentions the Alexander Technique. The original BMJ which was in A...

ever since alexander emerged in the history of iran, his being greek or iranian has been a matter of dispute. the subject has later entered the discussions over alexander’s identity as ruler, governor, explorer, adventurer, etc. even these days disputes over his existence or his territory exist. a purely historical study on the subject should be based on documents. yet since a great part of wri...