The Bowen Technique can help relieve back pain, shoulder problems, stress and fatigue.
In addition, my Bowen Clinic also has clients who have suffered from hay fever, sciatica, digestive disorders, migraine, headaches, hormonal problems to name just a few.
Bowen is a therapy which uses thumbs and fingers to gently roll across muscle and soft tissue. It stimulates the body’s own natural healing processes. This achieves health and balance in the body. Treatments can be carried out through light clothing. Anyone from babies to the elderly can benefit.
About Bowen Therapy
Tom Bowen, born in 1916 in Australia, developed his own clinic after finding ways of treating sportsmen and friends particularly with back problems. After starting with a few clients including his family and friends, Tom was treating over 1,000 people every month. The Bowen technique is now being taught at University level in Australia and has practitioners all over the world. It came to the UK in the early 1990s and is regulated by the Complimentary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).
How Bowen Works
Bowen is a remedial therapy which uses thumbs and fingers to gently roll across muscle and soft tissue. It targets specific muscles to stimulate the body’s own natural healing processes. After a sequence of moves, the client is left to rest to enable the body to activate its own natural healing mechanisms. This achieves health and balance in the body. This process is repeated throughout the treatment. Treatments can be carried out through light clothing. Anyone from babies to the elderly can benefit.
Duration of Treatment
Typically, a treatment will last 55 minutes
Acute conditions can often be resolved within 2-3 treatments. Chronic conditions may take a little longer.
Meet Jackie Matlock, Accredited Bowen Therapist
With 10 years’ experience, Jackie Matlock has been treating sufferers of sports injuries, back pain and other chronic and acute muscular conditions. Before setting up The Pain Relief Stop Jackie treated members of a local sports club using sports massage.
Jackie was introduced to Bowen Therapy because she wanted to find a way to broaden her skills and offer more long-lasting solutions to her clients. “I find Bowen offers me the best results for my clients. It covers a much broader spectrum of conditions which my clients often approach me with. It’s high success rate and gentle application are an excellent combination which my clients often fall in love with! By the end of the treatment they’re so relaxed all they want to do is go to sleep!” Clients will often arrive with a persistant complaint and once they alight from the treatment couch they often find their pain has gone or been reduced and their flexibility has improved.
Walking through the doors of The Pain Relief Stop have been patients ranging from 22-year old sufferers of flat feet, a 90-year old after hip surgery and a 38-year old world class athlete suffering from fatigue. The Pain Relef Stop has also brought about improvement to hayfever sufferers seeking relief.
Sports Massage
Sports Massage is the assessment and manipulation of soft tissues to:
- release tension areas and improve joint mobility
- Decrease stiffness and aches in muscles
- Assist with rehabilitation and prevent injury recurrence.
Sports therapy along with deep tissue work can help to prevent and reduce overuse injuries, if treated regularly. Also beneficial for any non-sporting injury.
This therapy can remove the accumulation of general aches and pains accepted as normal, due to a gradual build-up of waste products through overuse. These conditions can develop from everydate repetitive movements as well as from sporting activities.
This form of treatment monitors and relieves muscular tensions to help avoid possible injury. It can also explore the soft tissues more thoroughly than other therapies, thus the problem area can be assessed and treated very accurately.
Passive stretching movements employed with this therapy can stretch tissues not reached by normal active stretching techniques, thus maintaining good muscle function and improving range of movement and flexibility.
Deep tissue work of the spine improves flexibility and range of movement. All of the above techniques can be used to compliment Manipulative Therapies such as Physiotherapy, Osteopathy and Chirorpractic.
Contact Jackie for a full consultation, along with aftercare advice and recommended exercise routines.
What is Sports Bowen?
Sports Bowen builds on the principles of the Bowen technique. Simply put, it stimulates the brain to analyse dysfunction within muscles and soft tissue to activate the body’s innate healing mechanisms. For example, when you break a limb, the body knows how to heal without our conscious effort. Sometimes it needs a reminder to kick-start the process
Lines of Tension
Over a period of time, lines of tension build throughout the body in specific directions according to the sporting activity you are engaged in. These lines are made up of fascia (which covers all soft tissue like cling film). When tension builds somewhere along the line, when force is exerted it will hit the point that is weak, causing trauma and injury.
How does Sports Bowen Work? Bowen moves are made along these fascial lines signalling the brain’s need to let off tension, improve flexibility and thus creating balance and stability within the body.
The Next Level of Sports Therapy
Jackie began her career in sports massage, then branched into Bowen Therapy. Sports Bowen brings sports massage to the next level and enhances what she has been doing over the past 10 years.
Location
84 Baker St, Potters Bar EN6 2EP
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