What is The Bowen Therapy?

What is Bowen Technique?

The Bowen Technique is a remedial therapy tool. That is, it is used by therapists to mainly help people who are in pain or discomfort for one reason or another. It is a gentle therapy that works over the soft tissue of the client and features lots of rests in between moves to allow the body to start working with the information. Developed by Tom Bowen, many valid forms of his work exist in the world today.

How is it different from other therapies, such as Chiropractic, Osteopathy or physiotherapy?

All these therapies are excellent therapies, but Bowen differs in several respects. Osteopaths and chiropractors often use adjustments, or 'cracks' to realign the structure of the body. They will make a diagnosis of the patient and treat the area of concern. With Bowen therapy the approach is rather different. The therapist will take a case history, but the treatment does not set out to treat specific conditions or ailments. Instead the body is treated as a whole unit, without referral to named disease. For instance if someone came to a Bowen therapist with cancer, we would not claim to be able to help the cancer or even to treat it. Instead we are trying to help the person.

Is Bowen a form of massage?

No not really. The treatment can be performed through light clothing and no oils or prolonged pressure is used. At the same time there is no rubbing or friction in the move, which uses the movement of skin to effect a rolling type of action over the muscle.

How Many treatments will I need to have?

There are no guarantees here, because everyone responds differently, but on average the number of treatments required for say, a stiff neck or back is around three. Some problems need more treatments and some even less, but what won't happen is that you will be required to have a long course of treatment, only to find that it hasn't helped. Although there are never any promises, you should in most cases start to see change fairly quickly.

Equine Bowen

Bowen also treat Horses and Dogs. Do you have a horse who will not canter on a particular leg, dislikes the saddle being done up, has become hard to catch, stops at the jumps, or hangs a leg when jumping. These are signs things ar not right.

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