3 reasons to try regular maintenance Bowen Therapy

After helping clients to resolve a health problem, many ask – how do I stay feeling this way ? The answer is maintenance Bowen on some frequency.

A little like servicing your car, maintenance Bowen Therapy helps bodies with a tune-up before they splutter, stall or completely break down.

Some clients have chronic health problems that will never completely go away (or can’t be repaired without surgery).

Regular maintenance Bowen Therapy helps keep the symptoms of that chronic issue at bay. Help manage symptoms of the chronic problem. Help life continue with reduced pain and discomfort.

One example of how this helps is one of my clients who has a history of back pain. He first came to see me with sciatic pain, the result of a known herniated disc. A few initial treatments, a week apart, had his body return to a level of balance. The disc likely remains herniated, but the sciatic pain subsided and the tight back felt relaxed. To ensure he doesn’t return to that painful state, maintenance Bowen is now helping keep him in balance, not let that herniated disc cause pain.

For many people, Bowen Therapy can help relieve their pain, improve their posture and make things feel right again.

But to keep their body that way, some may need to learn to do things differently. Stand on both feet, avoid sitting with crossed legs, sit better at their desk, learn to breathe with their diaphragm… and sometimes that’s something people aren’t up for.

Some clients play a sport they love, but that continues to be hard on their body. Or have a job that simply doesn’t allow the body to recover – like a painter with torn shoulder muscles, or a driver with a problematic lower back.

One of my regulars consistently has tight neck and shoulders. Her body feels great in the time after treatment, but the aches return with a little time. A job that requires hours sitting at a computer and a history of shallow chest breathing isn’t going to change. The things that cause the aches can’t change, but the maintenance Bowen can help her feel great.

Some clients know that something doesn’t quite feel right with their body, but it’s often only after treatment that they realised what right felt like.

It’s a little like that frog in the boiling water analogy. Throw the frog in boiling water, it will know it’s in danger and do something. But if the frog is in tepid water that’s slowly heated, it won’t notice the temperature rise (well, until it gets uncomfortably warm). The body is a little like that – slowly moving toward that painful place, the small changes are not noticed, until things are pretty bad and it’s properly noticed.

One of my regulars comes for maintenance Bowen for lower back disc problems. He often doesn’t feel “too bad” when he comes in, but wants to continue with his maintenance. Recently, when jumping off the table and walking around after treatment, he let out an exclamation: “Oh my goodness, I didn’t realise how tight my back had become now that it’s feels so good !”

After a number of regular initial treatments, the body is able to stay in its good place for much longer.

Once your initial problem gets to a good place and the changes are holding, then it’s time to consider how to maintain it that way !

Extending the time between treatments is my recommended plan, assessing how well the body is feeling before and after next treatments. That “sweet spot” will soon be found, where that little reminder to the body is enough to keep it feeling good for longer. That may be about monthly for many, or even 2 or 3-monthly for some. Others are better at feeling when something isn’t quite right with their body – as soon as they feel a twinge or tightness, they book !