Pain Relief with Bowen Therapy
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January 27th, 2010
Bowen Therapist Dr. Heidi Rootes from Vitality Clinic in Vancouver talks about how Bowen therapy can help relieve a variety of different pains, from muscle cramps to severe sciatica.
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January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
went twice for …
went twice for Bowen for leg/back pain…. let’s just say i walked out in more pain the second time around…… never going back … waste of $63 X 2
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Not True peturssp. …
Not True peturssp. Bowen Therapy does not have to be applied by a GP, Osteopath etc to be safe, A fully qualified Bowen therapist will not cause injury and does not diagnose. A bowen therapist understands how the body heals as for affecting cancer diagnosis I know of one lady who is alive today as a result of having the chest procedure done which showed up her spreading breast cancer. please don’t place untrue scare comments.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Bowen therapy works …
Bowen therapy works in principle, but must be applied in correlaion with an appropriate medical degree (ie. GP, Osteopath, Physiotherapist); consequentlly, the treatment of a bowen therapist, with only bowen training [alone] may contribute to misdiagnosis and subsequent further injury (ie. cancer diagnosis, etc.).
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
ive seen it stop …
ive seen it stop and eliminate a bursa flare-up from an old torn tendon injury. i think it would work well for injury management.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
how about torn …
how about torn tendon?
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
hi is she a bowen …
hi is she a bowen therapist too?coz i have a pain in my left arm maybe i could try it.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Prove it. Bowen …
Prove it. Bowen was a quack.
Glad you brought up sciatica. My father’s had it for the better part of a decade. The only true relief is invasive surgery. You simply can’t wish a pinched nerve out of the socket joint in your hip.
Sadly, given that everyone wants to immediately downvote me for suggesting new-age/homeopathic woo needs more rigorous testing, I’m sure you’ll believe Bowen works, just as much as the homeopathic belief that water has “memory”.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Except, you’re …
Except, you’re wrong. It’s easy to do a double-blind test for COX inhibition between an aspirin and a placebo. When you identify the source of disease, you can correct it. However, asking someone to subjectively quantify before and after a Bowen “treatment” is unscientific and open to suggestion.
Patients can’t be counted upon as objective evidence. If the patient’s “confidence” is in effect, it’s not healing. It’s a temporary fix on the symptom without healing the actual problem.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Enter Bowen Canada …
Enter Bowen Canada for lists and contact information of Bowen practitioners all across the country.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Previously, Rurne …
Previously, Rurne said ‘..go see a physiotherapist instead.’ I am a Bowen therapist and I assure you all that some of my clients have tried ordinary physiotherapy but only Bowen shows clear benefit. Currently treating a woman who has had sciatica for five years. She has had an operation, physiotherapy, chiropractic, reflexology: all of these obtained some relief, but she says Bowen is far better than all of them. She has painless intervals the first time in five years, otherwise far less pain.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
there is a place in …
there is a place in Burlington ON called Let it Heal. Check it out!
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I had scoliosis, …
I had scoliosis, after 3 sessions of bowen my spine had completely straighted. Also fixed the OSR in my wrist! Brilliant!
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
This is definately …
This is definately the best thing you can do for sciatica! Its shocking how well it works even after one treatment!
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I had Bowen therapy …
I had Bowen therapy b/c of stress & tension and didn’t feel like being pummeled by a massage! I wanted deep relaxation & that’s exactly happened. I had one of these treatments today & after having massages of all kinds for years, felt more relaxed after this than I have ever felt, like I was floating. It felt as if it was ‘allowing’ rather than forcing my body to relax. This is exactly what Bowen does, it lets your body find imbalance & self correct instead of trying to force it. Heaven!
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Chronic pain is …
Chronic pain is very often emotional at root (Stress).
I saw 2 years’ chronic pain in my hands from typing vanish after seeing many doctors, using many “ergonomic” keyboards, and doing stretches and exercises galore.
John E. Sarno’s “The Mindbody Prescription” literally removed my hand pain instantly. Check it out on Amazon.
This sounds like a crazy story, or spam, but it’s just my experience. Good luck
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Try Karen Poon …
Try Karen Poon Practioner is in Toronto 416-439-0041
I just went to her today AMAZING !!!
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
There is a girl in …
There is a girl in Peterborough who does this.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Jesus.. pain is …
Jesus.. pain is pain… Take it away. Just take it away!
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I need this in …
I need this in TORONTO. ANY TORONTO, CANADA based practitioner. PLEASE PM me. Also if any of you can recommend someone in TORONTO, please let me know. My back pain is making me cry.. It hurts so much. I have a light curvature in my upper spine…
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Nor is treatment …
Nor is treatment with pharmacudicals quantifiable according to your standards; allopathic and osteopathics alike inquire of the patient to grade their pain levels; to refrain from obtaining or disregard a patient’s input defeats the purpose!
While NO one treatment is going to work in every case, there are a significant number of responsive patient cases which of course quantify the method, even if the only difference is the patient’s confidence that its working, the outcome is still healing!
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
In other words, it …
In other words, it cannot be quantifiable. The very principle of asking the patient to subjectively grade the pain means that the entire methodology is suspectible to autosuggestion.
In other words, it’s unscientific woo, with only anecdotal, circumstantial evidence to support it.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
The reason you …
The reason you can’t use a double blind study with TBT is because its methodologies do not allow for a placebo since the method is quite easily differentiated on its subjects.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I’ve had Bowen …
I’ve had Bowen therapy and had great results, I also studied it. All you are doing is causing a “vibration” across the muscle fibers like a rubber band. The muscle relaxes because it has been manipulated. Its not rocket science, its very simple.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
You should take the …
You should take the time to see what Bowen claimed. A shame someone recently (2008-10-23) deleted the Wikipedia article, as it debunked most of this, but you really should look at the peer-reviewed case studies done and see how unscientific they were.
If it “works” for you, great. However, can anyone prove this works, not because the patient believes it will work, but that there is fundamentally something different than a deep-tissue massage?
Put it in a medical journal and I’ll read it.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I don’t think it is …
I don’t think it is about redirecting energy. It is studying the nervous system and the way it reacts to various stimuli.
It’s just about finding the right stimuli to send to the brain, so it receives the correct message to send back
No I do not know what Bowen claimed….