A Pain Therapy Like No Other
Pain Relief – Easy to Receive & Fast Acting!
It is surprising how beneficial Bowen Therapy can be for the elderly. It should be your expectation, as a client or therapist, to dramatically relieve their symptoms of pain, in muscle and nerve, degenerative joints and even dysfunctions in systems such as, digestive, circulatory and especially energy.
Seniors have a special need for a therapy that is effective on multiple systems as their problems have usually developed over time and there are usually other symptoms as a result of their problems. Therefore, health related issues become quite fixed, stubborn and difficult to change. Using traditional bodywork or pain relief options such as chiropractic, massage and physiotherapy are much too crude and time consuming for the chronic patterns of inflammatory conditions seniors suffer.
Why Seniors Love Bowen Therapy:
- It is easy to receive, clothes can remain on.
- It can be done whilst lying on their back with pillows under their head, neck and upper back. Or, it can be received whilst sitting in a chair.
- Very few visits are needed to achieve good results.
- Very few follow-up appointments are needed to maintain a lasting benefit.
- It is very affordable because of the few number of sessions required.
The basic Bowen Therapy treatment will work on many levels to positively affect and very, very quickly:
- Inflammation
- Pain
- Alignment
- Mobility
- Energy
- Function
- Relaxation
Conditions commonly treated in Seniors:
- Arthritis
- Neuralgia
- Tendonitis
- Strength
- Sciatica
- Cramp
Areas that are commonly treated in Seniors:
- Headache
- Shoulder
- Hip
- Knee
- Feet
- Back
Where Did Bowen Come From
Developed in Australia by the late Tom Bowen (1916-1982). Bowen Therapy, named such after Mr. Bowen’s passing, is a system of moves that challenges soft tissue, releases its congestion and stimulates energy flow, it relieves pain and inflammation, and is an overall tonic to the body’s innate ability to heal itself. It’s positive effects on nerve, muscle and connective tissue provides lasting relief from pain and misalignment in the simplest and most effective manner. For more than 40 years it has been used successfully to treat tens of thousands of people suffering from a huge variety of ailments. Many saying it is the most effective, long lasting and relaxing treatment they have ever experienced.
Bowen Therapy is safe for everyone, –from newborns to the old-aged, it is safe to use as a treatment for both acute and chronic conditions. Bowen Therapy relieves the body’s reactive patterns to injury, pain and misalignment through a series of relaxing and gentle moves on specific points on the body. The moves are light, usually performed through clothing, making it a simple to receive therapy for those in severe pain and immobility. Perhaps the most unique aspect of Bowen Therapy are ‘pauses’ of time that are given between sets of therapeutic moves during a treatment session. It is this ‘pause’ of time provided between sets of Bowen Therapy moves that enables the body the time to respond. Without this ‘pause’ there would be no difference between Bowen Therapy and other forms of bodywork, it is unique.
Pain & Inflammation
Consider that most disease is either inflammation in process or is caused by the body’s own inflammatory response to any potential causative factor. In acute disease it is well known that reducing inflammation will moderate pain. In chronic disease the same is true but the ongoing cause must be addressed at the same time. Bowen Therapy is a complete anti-inflammatory therapeutic influence. It changes the paradigm of inflammatory reaction in both acute and chronic disease. The effect of Bowen Therapy on the body is to trick it into ‘letting-go’ its stuck patterns of inflammatory reaction. So, if we are addressing conditions such as, allergies and asthma or a slipped disk and sciatica the effective reaction is the same. It is to reduce the inflammatory process and switch the body’s protective response to that of healing and recuperation. Spasm and inflammation, normally healthy responses immediately after an injury, too often remain long after and become the problem itself.
Misalignment
The effectiveness of Bowen Therapy does not stop at reducing pain and inflammation it also affects through positive feedback structural misalignments. Most Bowen Therapy moves are in areas where proprioreceptors, spindle cells and golgi tendon organs abound. Bowen Therapy helps the body remember it needs to heal through its stimulation of the proprioreceptors, the sensory neurons the body uses for proper movement, balance and sensation. The messages sent to the nervous system through the Bowen Therapy moves remind the body to regain normal movement and articulation in joints, muscles, and tendons. It is in this context that change takes place in the musculo-skeletal and visceral systems.
Stuck Patterns
Traditional Chinese Medicine considers good health to be a state of energy balance and free energy flow within the body. It assumes that pain and illness are caused by imbalances or blockages in the free flow of energy. What often happens is that problems accumulate causing congestion and our self-healing process becomes overloaded. Bowen Therapy simply reminds the body to re-visit problems that haven’t been fully resolved and have been accommodated to in a response to injury and dysfunction. At the same time the Bowen Therapy effects the congestion of energy within the system. Client’s can feel shifts in their bodies during and after Bowen Therapy treatment session while their autonomic system comes back into balance. Bowen Therapy is a process that enables the body to regulate itself, and through this process, many symptoms of pain, misalignment and dysfunction disappear. Many of these dysfunctions were in the first place a product of the complex and original blockages existing in the body after, illness, injury and stress. The state of reaction became ‘stuck’ and Bowen Therapy is perhaps the most efficient form of treatment for these states of ‘stuckness’ as it literally tricks the responses in nerve, muscle and joints to simply ‘let-go’. It is like unsettling the sand on the ocean floor and letting it settle back to it’s once perfect structure.
Comparisons
Bowen Therapy stimulates the body to heal itself with minimal intervention in contrast to other forms of bodywork where the therapist imposes the body’s healing mechanisms through the bodywork provided. What makes Bowen Therapy so unique is that its benefit is long lasting and simple to attain, it is the simplest bodywork system and yet has a large scope of use. Bowen Therapy is often described as being unlike any other form of bodywork by pointing out the differences. There are many more similarities than actual difference, in describing Bowen Therapy to a potential client or interested person their natural understanding of it would be to reference it to a therapy they already have a concept of. For example:
Like MASSAGE
Bowen Therapy involves, relaxation and physical touch but the Bowen Therapy treatment is interspersed by pauses and the actual ‘hands on’ input from the therapist is minimal in comparison.
Like ACUPRESSURE and ACUPUNCTURE
Some of the areas of focus will coincide with acupuncture points and known meridians the Bowen Therapy treatments decongest blockages or stagnation in energy flow even more efficiently.
Like CHIROPRACTIC and OSTEOPATHY
the body’s skeletal structure is profoundly affected through Bowen Therapy and joints will correct their alignment without forceful manipulation and long-term treatment plans.
Like PHYSIOTHERAPY
the body’s neuromuscular system is effectively re-trained but more importantly the old patterns of dysfunction are removed first. The best preface to physiotherapy after injury or surgery would be Bowen Therapy to reduce the inflammatory responses before re-education of muscle groups.
Like EMOTIONAL RELEASE and SOMATIC BODYWORK
Bowen Therapy will have profound and positive affects on the emotional causes and blockages within a person. These emotional causes can have a serious consequence to a persons healing and it is necessary to resolve them. Bowen Therapy is not used to intentionally affect these blockages but simply reminds the body to not hold or remain stuck in patterns of emotional responses. Any emotional releases from by Bowen Therapy occur only when the client is naturally ready and the process is gentle and very natural.
