Take these knots from my neck

Take these knots from my neck Amanda Lees 3 April 2001 I have finally succumbed to the curse of the computer. Hours spent chasing deadlines in front of a flickering screen have given me shoulders tighter than a starlet's smile and the stress of my recent book launch has driven the final nail into my lumbar spine. Add to that a recent whiplash injury and it is evident that mine is more than the average pain in the neck. Popping a painkiller achieves precisely nothing, so the answer is obvious: it's time to take the alternative route. New therapies pop up on a weekly basis and sorting the effective from the plain insane is not as easy as it would seem, particularly when you are dealing with that most modern malaise: technology tension. Spend long days at your keyboard, phone propped under chin while manoeuvring a mouse, and you, too, are likely to be a victim. In the interests of knotted necks everywhere, I bravely submitted myself to the ministrations of various practitioners. The Ayurvedic approach The alternative approach du jour and who better to visit than the doyenne of Ayurvedic innovation, Bharti Vyas. She has spent the past two years perfecting what she calls the Harmonising Facial, and you read it here first. More a total transformation than a facial, it is tailor-made to treat the parts of you that ache more than most. In my case, the Indian scalp massage incorporating acupressure was especially effective. An amazing army of ...