Bowen Technique

The Bowen Technique – which seems too gentle to have any effect – can help with problems such as backache and migraine, often when medicine can’t.

Some GPs now refer patients to Bowen technicians (it costs £35-£45 per session).

“I tend to be sceptical of such things, but after trying everything for my own sciatica, Bowen was the only treatment that worked,” says recently retired Warwickshire GP Dr Claire Pickin, who went on to train in Bowen.  “I began suggesting it to patients with musculo-skeletal pain and those for whom I had nothing else to offer from mainstream medicine.  It more often helped than didn’t.  What I think happens is that it sends the body into a deep state of resting so the muscle tension is spontaneously released.

Bowen is simple, gentle and without side effects.  So often GPs dismiss older people in pain, saying they have to expect that with age.  But Bowen was a great lesson to me – you can help the healing power of the body so people can lead a normal life again.”

Claire Pickin’s practice is in Shipston on Stour – www.shipstontherapycentre.co.uk

Saga magazine Sept 2013