News tagged with alexander technique

'Chair disease' -- give it a rest

Apr 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (15) | 0

Where are you right now? Lounging on an overstuffed couch with the newspaper and a cup of coffee? Sitting on a kitchen chair taking in the news online? Well, I hope you're sitting down for this bit of news. (Or maybe you ...

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Alexander technique offers long-term relief for back pain

Medicine & Health / Health

Aug 20, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (41) | 2

Alexander technique lessons in combination with an exercise programme offer long-term effective treatment for chronic back pain, according to a study published on BMJ.com today.

Nanoimaging in 3-D

Physics / General Physics

Dec 01, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology shrinks ever smaller, interest in objects and devices on the nanoscale becomes more apparent. However, visualizing these objects in three dimensions comes with special challenges. ...

Scientists create entirely new way to study brain function

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Jul 15, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina have devised a chemical technique that promises to allow neuroscientists to discover the function of any population of neurons in an animal ...

New technique could eliminate inherited mitochondrial disease

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 26, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders passed on from mother to child. The technique, as yet conducted ...

Golden Nano-Dumbbells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Apr 05, 2007 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 0

Nanotechnology appears to be an unstoppable trend and it requires defined nanoscale building blocks and patterns. “A typical difficulty with the synthesis of nanostructures is the modification of nanoscale objects at specific ...

Enigmatic sea urchin structure catalogued

Biology / Plants & Animals

Jun 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

A comprehensive investigation into the axial complex of sea urchins (Echinoidea), an internal structure with unknown function, has shown that within that group of marine invertebrates there exists a struct ...

Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Jan 23, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...

Super-sensitive explosives detector can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards

Technology / Engineering

Jun 26, 2008 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Using a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards.

Large study illustrates cardiac CT can effectively assess coronary artery disease

Medicine & Health / Research

Dec 01, 2008 | not rated yet | 0

Cardiac CT can effectively assess coronary artery stenosis, according to a large study performed at Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, The Netherlands.