I Have spasmodic torticollis will this treatment help me

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@roadwarrior1981 Doctors are at least? the third biggest cause of death (murder). I wonder where on the scale of murder well established alternative therapy comes in.

Right after giant throbbing horse cock.

@roadwarrior1981 Doctors are at least the third biggest cause of death (murder). I wonder where on the scale of murder well established alternative therapy comes in.

@peturssp GP’s are bad for your health. Mine is very fat and so stupid he can only use his computer program to input symptoms and then deal the latest drugs his drug dealers at pharma are paying him sweeteners of £4k for to push, with all their terrible side effects. If anyone puts their trust in doctors (and dentists) they are fools.

@Rurne don’t worry about it, if it doesn’t work for you leave it, no need to rubbish it for others for whom it works. As for placebos well Prozac as an example was proven to be no better than a placebo and the results covered up until someone had to go to get a court order to get at them. Alternative therapists have constantly called for government to set up double blind studies, eg Dr Sheldrake put forward proposals and plans at low cost for these but government does not want to know.

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Has anyone found Bowen to be completely useless in treating their ailment(s)?

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by this, but ANY ethical alternative medicine therapist will ALWAYS defer and refer a client to the relevant medical practitioner where any other diagnosis is plausible. They aren’t just trained in their particular field, but also trained to know when a referral is necessary. Most people seek alternative therapy where all else has failed, or where their treatment by traditional medicine is a choice between painkillers and surgery.

I went to a Bowen practitioner for help with a shoulder injury. After 3 treatments not only was my shoulder healed but my neck (which had been an issue for years) was also restored to almost complete and pain free mobility.

I am receiving Bowen for sciatic and after the first treatment the problem is almost completely gone! Also helped with low back pain, I have Fibromyalgia and it has produced deeper, higher quality sleep and thus reduced my pain from Fibro. Bowen rocks! I am an HHP providing integrative healthcare based in energy medicine techniques and will be learning Bowen so that I may help clients at a subtle yet deep and permanent way.

Bowen is great and i reccomend it to any one for any muscular ailment, particularly sciatica!!!

Consider a patient who sees a Bowen technician for backpain. Bowen therapy helps to reduce pain because it works on the basis of descending neural inhibition, and the counter-irritant theory of pain; and due to some relaxation of intrafusal fibers of the muscle spindle. The problem is that this patient may acutally present with cancer, pyrogenic infections, brucellosis, etc. Therefore, the requirement to see your GP, with subsequent referral to a specialist.

Wrong. The main weapon of most GP’s is a notepad to write prescriptions. No correlation whatsoever with what’s being discussed here.

Prove it? Heart surgeons have nothing to do with cartilage therapy as Bowen therapy would suggest.

Bowen has always been basic chiropractics plus positive wishing. Indicate how the procedure was otherwise and has been double-blind tested that both trained and untrained “therapists” have “tried” and “placebo’d” the therapy.

I mean… really. What are you trying to tell me about this therapy solution? Want to start a video discourse which will allow us more than 240 chars/comment?

The fact is that surgeons suffering from even prolapse avoid surgery since the chance of success is much less than they were brought up to believe. This most often comes as a very great surprise to them, when told this by their othropedic collegues. If you are in the position, you may check the medical history of a couple of heart surgeons in Scandinavia, and quite a few orthopedic surgeons in Germany and Switzerland.

Interesting comment – and a common misconception – even by many orthopedic doctors. But that does not make it more true.

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

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.

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.).

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.

how about torn tendon?

hi is she a bowen therapist too?coz i have a pain in my left arm maybe i could try it.

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”.

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.

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