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The Alexander Technique can play a pivotal role in reducing the pain of performing artists, writes SYLVIA THOMPSON

ACCLAIMED ACCORDION player Máirtín O’Connor describes the feeling he had when he went to an Alexander Technique teacher with severe neck pain. “It felt like someone had poured a full canister of three in one oil into my neck,” he says.