Advantages: Take your time, follow the rules and you will get totally well!! Disadvantages: Not as immediate as a painkiller!
...I have become a Bowen Technique devotee!! And those are the things they tell you to do between sessions, a little walk each day and as much water as you can drink!
As some of you know I have my fair share of health problems, notably Ulcerative Colitis and Ankylosing Spondylitis to name just two. My hips had been aching and steadily getting worse for a number of years now, one particular time I had done a 2 days show for work which involved much ... ...my various conditions she recommended Bowen Technique. I had never heard of it! I intend to write of my own experience but for the history of Bowen Technique and details of practitioners in your area please see www.thebowentechnique.com which is run by the ECBS (European College of Bowen Studies).
So far I have had 4 sessions and the improvement is amazing! I have just come inside from painting the fence and doing some gardening so it's doing somehting!!
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pagan 14.05.2004
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Advantages: Can be used to compliment other forms of medicine Disadvantages: Recommended you wait a week before having any other manipulative therapy.
...bit of info about the Bowen technique.
~<>~ A BRIEF HISTORY ~<>~
The Bowen technique was developed by Thomas A. Bowen after the 2nd World War. He wasn't trained in any sort of medicine but he was interested in alleviating human suffering and he began to notice that when he made certain moves on the body, it had particular beneficial effects.
In 1974 he was introduced to a massage therapist Oswald Rentsch, who studied Bowen's technique and documented ... ...before. Bowen opened a clinic and by 1975 saw about 13,000 patients a year, treatments were 7 days apart and most people only needed 2-3 treatments.
It was not until his death in 1982 that Rentsch began to pass all this information on and teach the technique to others.
~<>~ SO WHAT IS THE BOWEN TECHNIQUE ~<>~
The Bowen technique works by "resetting the body to heal itself". The manipulation is a series of gently rolling connective tissue moves, ...
fionaneville 06.02.2003
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Advantages: Painless, non-invasive, fast Disadvantages: None
...ago, and having read about Bowen Therapy and its being painless, decided to take the plunge. After only one session, there was significant improvement as regards pain, and after two to three sessions, my range of movement had improved several degrees. After my fifth (and final) session this week, my therapist put my range of movement at "11 o'clock" (12 o'clock being full range), and I suffer no pain whatsoever during the day, although when I lie ...
cheyenne3918 09.09.2008
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