The Bowen Technique is a hands-on non-manipulative therapy. It involes the practictioner rolling the muscle and connective tissue on various parts of the patient’s body. The thumbs and fingers are used, but the touch is gentle with little pressure applied.

The objective of this therapy is to give the body an opportunity to respond to the information gradually and begin the process of healing itself. One explanation for the effectiveness of this technique is that the body’s cells communicate with the brain to initiate repair to the damaged tissue or tendons.

The Bowen Technique was developed by Tom Bowen, a lay practictioner who treated the aches and pains of his co-workers in a cement works and woolen mill in Geelong, Australia. Due to the success of his treatment, Bowen opened his own clinic in the 1960s.

Bowen Technique is a complementary therapy which is effective for back, neck pain, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, repetitive strain injury(RSI) and other musculo-skeletal disorders. There are also reported success with asthma and other respiratory problems , hay fever, kidney problems, insomnia and arthritis.

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