A truism I've seen - the best predictor of back pain is having had back pain.
After an initial injury about 20 years ago, Alexander technique made it worse, but only because an incompetent instructor shoved my back when I was not expecting it. Feldenkrais helped with recovery a lot after that. A few years later, floor pilates helped as well.
Now, it's been Stuart McGill's 'Back Mechanic' book, which helps one do some self diagnosis, and select a set of corrective exercises for your individual set of symptoms.
McGill may not be the final word on the topic, but he is a good one, with a deep background studying spine biomechanics.. As whiddershins wrote: "..no one thing seems to work for everybody. And the level of talent and expertise of the instructor/healer is usually more important than the label someone gives to their modality."
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