Bowen Technique
What is Bowen Technique?
Bowen is one of the world's leading professional techniques in structural and spinal therapy for lasting pain removal and rejuvenation.
This remarkable technique initiates an automatic regulation process to occur in the nervous system and consequently throughout the whole body. Rapidly reducing symptoms, clearing their causes, increasing energy, and restoring an unmistakable feeling of well being.
Typically the response to Bowen is profoundly effective - even long term conditions and those unresolved by other therapies or surgical treatment can show impressive change within a very short period of time.
Bowen allows the body to naturally regulate and heal itself, so noninvasive that it is safe for all people including babies, the elderly, people in extreme pain, and fragile health conditions. Well known for it's effectiveness in treating pain and disorders of the joints, muscle and posture, Bowen is also adept at addressing internal ailments.
Many Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Acupuncturist, Sports Therapists and Physiotherapists have trained in The Bowen Technique and so impressed with its effectiveness now use it as their first choice of therapy.
Russell Dick, an Osteopath for 20 years & former Dean of Studies at the Northern Counties School of Osteopathy, says:
"Bowen has turned my practice on its head, with 80% of my patients being given Bowen as a first choice".
What does a treatment involve?
Your first Bowen appointment will last 1 hour, and follow ups take approximately 45 minutes. Treatment for the most part is performed through light clothing. Characteristically, skillful soft tissue manipulation is applied adjacent to the length of the spine, hips and cranium, depending on presenting conditions treatment may then be applied to shoulders, jaw, face, limbs, and joints. Two or three treatments, at weekly intervals, are often sufficient to achieve lasting relief from even long standing pain, although further treatments may sometimes be required. To receive maximum benefit it is recommended that other physical therapies are not mixed with The Bowen Technique, e.g. Chiropractic, Massage, Physiotherapy, etc.
The Body has its own natural law of balance, recovery and healing. Lifestyle excesses and deficiencies all have their resultant toll on our health. Bowen allows for each person’s individual state of health. Each person’s corrective responses in their return to health will vary; dependent on their initial state of health and influences of their current lifestyle.
What can Bowen treat?
Here are but a few of the conditions that Bowen has successfully treated:
- Sports injuries
- Headache and Migraine
- Back/Spinal
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen shoulder
- Asthma
- Whiplash sciatica
- bowel conditions
- Limbs
- Chronic Fatigue
- Kidney Problems
- Joint Pain
- Stress
- Natal Trauma
- RSI
- Lymphatic Problems
Prevention is better than cure
Bowen therapy can also be used as a method to maintain a healthy balance and sense of well being.
Where did Bowen originate?
The Bowen Technique was the amazing life's work of bodywork and osteopathic genius Thomas Bowen 1916-1982. He developed a great interest in body work and spent time working in the Sports field. Overtime he established a full time practice in remedial therapy using the technique he had developed.
Treating an incredible 13,000 patients a year, 88% of whom only required two or three treatments to relieve longstanding pain. Mr. Bowen died in the early 1980's but today there are a number of flourishing therapies based on his work.
The Bowen Technique today has been carefully crafted to ensure the same dependable level of health care that Tom Bowen himself was able to provide. Today the reputation of Bowen as being one of the world's leading professional therapies is a powerful living tribute to the legacy of Tom Bowen.
Practitioner
Dianne Bradshaw BSc(Hons)MACM MMAA MBTER
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| Dianne Bradshaw |
| Bowen Technique | Duration | Adults | Child 13-16yrs | Child 0-12yrs |
First Appointment |
60 mins |
£56 |
£56 |
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| 45 mins | £46 | |||
Follow-ups |
45 mins | £42 | £42 | |
| 30 mins | £32 |
Prices correct at time of publishing Jan 2009
