Dr Mungo Douglas
Letter in the British Medical Journal, 7 December 1929.
| May I be permitted to express the opinion that no consideration of scoliosis can be complete which does not take into view the important work of Mr. F. Matthias Alexander on the constructive conscious control of the individual? It is true that his methods primarily have nothing to do with the treatment of scoliosis, but it it true also that, as the result of the application of his principle, scoliosis is eradicated and could be prevented. the importance of his discovery of defective sensory appreciation reveals itself no more plainly elsewhere than in that appearance to which we give the name scoliosis, and which is not always a distinctly pathological condition, but often a means whereby the normal accomplish some or other of their daily tasks. Were children trained in the application of Mr. Alexander's principle there would be no need for the treatment of scoliosis, for as scoliosis is an incident in automatic learning through a defective sensory appreciation, with a reliable sensory appreciation and conscious learning on a general basis no such incident could occur. |
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