Amateur Sports, Professional Therapy

Now is a fantastic time of year to take up the sporting activities you've always been meaning to take up. Perhaps there's a local running club taking place in your neighbourhood? A squash club is going on at your nearest gym or it's so warm you're literally sprinting towards your nearest swimming pool!

The summer has provided brilliant weather to take part in many of these outdoor activities. Not only is it great fun, but it's a good form of exercise to burn fat, improve your heart and strengthen your muscles.

Take heed as there are some risks from suddenly becoming much more active - properly warm up and warm down, stretch and drink plenty of water. Push yourself as comfortable as you're happy to and remember it's about having fun.

All these activities can take its strain on the body. Bowen Therapy can be a ideal partner to your new-found activities - helping to sooth the aching muscles and sporting injuries you may encounter.

Using light touches at specific points of the body, through light clothing or skin, the Bowen Technique is a particularly unconventional massage – drug free, complementary and gentle in approach. Rather than ‘making’ the body change, Bowen ‘asks’ the body to recognise the ailment and make the changes it requires.

During the 30-60 minute treatment, the Bowen practitioner makes small, rolling movements over muscles, tendons, ligaments and soft tissue at precise points on the body, using only the amount of pressure appropriate for that individual.

Between each set of moves, the body is allowed to rest for a few minutes, to allow it to absorb the information it has received and initiate the healing process.

If you would like to try Bowen, find a qualified Bowen practitioner near to you by visiting the Bowen website or calling 0844 561 7173.

Why Bowen is great for both the body and mind.

 

Why Bowen is great for both the body and mind.

 

At the BTPA, we feel that Bowen is great, but here are the top 10 reasons why you should think so too.

Bowen is:

1. Encouraging, not invasive
2. Natural and drug-free
3. Helps aid the stress and start the relaxing
4. Can be taken alongside medicine
5. No side effects
6. 3 treatments is usually enough (with possible long-term maintenance)
7. Nationally available
8. Can be used on everyone- children to elderly
9. Can even be used on animals (note - not all animals)
10. An alternative to conventional medicine

So in short, Bowen is a natural, drug-free, non-invasive complementary therapy that can combat stress. Bowen takes an encouraging approach by ‘asking’ the body to recognise and make the changes it requires rather than ‘making’.

The treatment lasts 30-60 minutes and 3 of these treatments is usually sufficient, with the possible need for additional treatments and long-term maintenance. During these treatments the Bowen practitioner makes small, rolling movements at precise points of the body over muscles, tendons, ligaments and soft tissue, using only the amount of pressure appropriate for the individual.

No hard-tissue manipulation or force is used and between each set of moves, the body is allowed to rest for a few minutes, to allow it to absorb the information it has received and initiate the healing process.

One Bowen client said: “The results I am experiencing are beyond my expectations”. Another said: “I will use this therapy again as it was wholly beneficial”. Read more of these testimonials here, giving you even more reasons to try Bowen for yourself.

If you are interested in Bowen, find a practitioner near to you by visiting the BTPA Bowen Therapy Website or by calling 0844 561 7173.

Tennis Season in Full Swing

With the tennis season in full swing, sport related injuries start to become an increasing pain. This year the Wimbledon championship runs from 24th June to 7th July. The odds on Wimbledon aren’t looking too good with the early exit of both Roger Federer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Nadal also exited in the first round. Don’t let the odds be against you too when it comes to sporting.

 

Bowen could be the solution to your sporting pains. Strains and aches through playing sports? Suffering from discomfort and muscle problems? Bowen is the gentle non-invasive therapy through small, rolling movements using only the amount of pressure appropriate for that individual.

 

Bowen can be used to ease those sporting strains and aches. A client testimonial related to a hamstring injury/strain states that with each Bowen treatment they felt a noticeable decrease of pain. This client said “after one more Bowen session, I will have almost full resolution”.

 

Another problem that Bowen can help to relieve is the aptly named tennis elbow. Tennis elbow can result in pain during exercise. One client said that after Bowen therapy that “All joints feel like new!”

 

So as the Wimbledon championship draws to a close take a look into Bowen therapy so you can start exercising without any aches and strains. Visit their website for more information: http://www.bowentherapy.org.uk/