The Bowen Technique
What is the Bowen Technique?
The Bowen Technique is a relatively gentle therapy consisting of a series of rolling or flicking "moves " over muscle, tendon, ligaments, bones and fascia. It is believed that this helps restore "muscle memory", which can lead to rapid relief of pain and immobility. Often two or three treatments are often enough to provide significant relief from pain.
What is the Bowen Technique good for?
Because it is so gentle it can be applied in a wide variety of situations. It can be used on acute injuries, even minutes after they occur, and is suitable for both new born babies and the elderly and infirmed.
Some of the conditions that respond very well to the Bowen Technique include:
- Migraine
- Tension Headaches
- Jaw Pain
- Neck Pain
- Shoulder Pain
- Elbow Pain
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Repetitive Stress / Strain Injury (RSI)
- Back Pain
- Knee Pain
- Ankle Pain
- Fibromyalgia
Can the Bowen Technique be used in combination with other therapies?
This is a controversial issue within Bowen Therapy circles. There are some schools who teach that Bowen Technique should not be combined with other hands on therapies. These schools often claim that Tom Bowen was against combining, and that the technique does not work if used in combination with other therapies. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is that Tom Bowen regularly combined other therapies with the Bowen "move ". He would ask his assistants to give some clients warn up massages before he treated them, and he encouraged his students to combine what he taught them with their existing therapies.
The vast majority of Bowen Therapists combine Bowen Technique with other therapies on a regular basis.
NB: The treatments offered at the Natural Pain Management Clinic are not meant as a replacement for regular medical advice. If you have any doubts over the nature of your condition please contact a medical practitioner.