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Heard of Bowen Treatments? Your Back Will Thank You

“Healing doesn’t always mean doing more. At times, it is just enough to remind the body of what it already knows.”

Have you ever spent hours Googling how to relieve your back pain? Have you tried massages, swallowed pills, and received too many chiropractic appointments, only to wake up in pain again? Then you are not alone. But there’s a gentle, often overlooked solution that’s quietly changing lives: Bowen treatments.

This is distinctly not a regular kind of therapy that forces the body to react, but the treatment merely works with the body. It involves light touch and is subtle, yet shockingly effective. The poor back that has been screaming for relief might find a perfect reset with this.

Let me walk you through what it is, how it works, and why these treatments are currently winning the hearts of those who were once stuck with chronic pain.

What Exactly Are Bowen Treatments?

This Therapy (or the Bowen Technique) is an Australian method of doing bodywork. But think nothing of deep-tissue pressure or complex bone-cracking adjustments. The Bowen Technique uses a gentle rolling motion across the muscle, tendon, and fascia, along with short but necessary pauses. It is subtle; it really is during these pauses that the magic takes place.

The body has a chance to “hear.” To recalibrate. To get out of the fight-or-flight scenario and into healing mode. No brute force. Just gentle cues and time to respond.

Clients often report:

  • Relief after just one or two sessions
  • Deep relaxation that lasts
  • Less inflammation and stiffness
  • A renewed sense of balance in the body

Why Your Back Will Thank You

Backache is a prevalent reason why people seek medical advice from a doctor. It is frustrating to resolve. People try to power through auto-stretching, correcting posture, or using expensive ergonomic chairs. While these measures can help, they cannot really directly address the deep source of what is causing the muscular tension.

Bowen operates in a very different manner. Rather than trying to “fix” the pain, it just allows the body to heal itself by resetting the autonomic nervous system (ANS).

Consider the simple notion of rebooting a frozen phone. You’re not forcing anything; instead, you give the system a chance to sort out its own glitch.

For those with sciatica, lower back tightness, herniated discs, or long-standing strains from sitting all day, Bowen therapy offers an alternative path, one that involves no popping of painkillers or scheduling of surgical procedures.

Not Just for Backs—Bowen Helps the Whole Body

While the relief of low back pain unfortunately tops the list of benefits of this gentle approach, Bowen’s therapy encompasses a whole spectrum of other ailments. A couple of the more common ones are the neck pain treatments Dallas has to offer and frozen shoulder therapies in Dallas, particularly for those who find themselves sitting at a desk or performing repetitive tasks.

More often than not, Bowen therapists are doing work on fascia, the connective tissue that stretches through your entire body. When this is tight or constrained, injured, or stressed, it can hold tension in unusual locations. This is precisely what makes neck and shoulder problems so persistent.

Stretching these gentle rolling movements around the shoulders, upper back, and neck, Bowen treatments release this tension. Clients have enjoyed a better range of motion, restful sleep, and even relief from headache and jaw tension.

If you have held onto years of tension locking your stiff neck, or a lingering nuisance of shoulder pain with a cherry-on-top of limited range of motion due to a past injury, a few sessions of Bowen can be just like someone finally cracking open a window in a room that had been slammed shut for years.

What to Expect During a Session

First-timers are usually surprised. There’s no deep digging, no oils, and no machines. The practitioner might work for a few minutes, then leave the room for a short time. That pause? It’s intentional and powerful.

This is how a standard session takes place:

  • You are lying comfortably on a massage table, fully dressed.
  • The practitioner makes light, rolling movements on specific points.
  • Between sets, they’ll give your body a break to process the signals.
  • The whole session usually lasts 30–60 minutes.

Most people walk away feeling deeply relaxed. Some feel changes immediately; for others, it takes a day or two. But the effects? They last longer than traditional massage or physical therapy.

The Emotional Side of Physical Pain

Another common point Bowen deeply understands: pain is not merely physical. Stress, emotional pressure, and trauma may rest within the body. Sometimes we carry that tension for one or two decades without being aware of it.

Bowen therapy interfaces with your parasympathetic nervous system, the part responsible for resting, digesting, and recovery. It calms the nervous system as it unties emotional stress alongside any pain.

For clients dealing with burnout, insomnia, anxiety, PTSD, or grief (sometimes even termed as complicated grief), Bowen often provides emotional release that is unexpected in nature.  Many report that it feels therapeutic.

Why Bowen Works When Nothing Else Does

Many people look to Bowen after treatment by a chiropractor, physiotherapist, or even injections has failed to grant long-lasting relief. Subtlety is at the heart of Bowen. Instead of pushing the body to make changes, it gently encourages it to do the recalibration.

Bowen lets healing take place without any strain by focusing on fascia, nervous system response, and muscle tension. It is more helpful when pressure is put on you by the stresses of standard treatment rather than giving support. This method will generally give relief when conventional approaches are unable: recurrent back pain, joint stiffness, or difficulty in functionality.

Final Thoughts: Give Your Body the Cue to Heal

So, the next time the old big bad back or even the shoulder acting up, and something stiff along with it needs fixing, remember that:

You do not need to go through suffering. You do not need to push on. You need a gentle reminder that would help your body feel better. Bowen treatments are never an instant fix but a lasting shift.

It offers a restoration approach to center your body, not through force but through gentle manipulative suggestions.

Pain Eraser from our Bowen Therapy in Dallas center focuses on care and compassion in resetting these patterns. Whether it is about aggressive back pain, neck pain, or frozen shoulder, we facilitate your healing journey, naturally and gently. Your body deserves to have relief that genuinely feels like relief.

Let Bowen find it for you. Call us today and schedule your first session. Your back will thank you!

New Head Harness for Concussion & Migraines

Living Well Dallas has a brand LED (Light Emitting Diode) new device to add to our low level light therapy sessions. head harness on mannekin This has been designed to effect Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), migraines and other headaches, as well as many other conditions involving brain health (swelling, infection, etc).

I have been using the head harness with great success for these conditions.  Here are some of my recent clinical experiences:
 
A client with concussion from 4 months prior came in reporting that she still was experiencing dizziness and the feeling of her head being heavy (inflammation). We used the LED head hardness and did a Bowen Technique session. A few days later I spoke with her and both those issues were improved. She was very much looking forward to her next session and had hope for full recovery.
 
A client who had been experiencing daily headaches with varied intensity for many days without a break, came in with a migraine on this particular day. All we did was the head harness for 40 minutes. Two days later she was elated to report that she had not had a headache since.
 
A client with a continual vestibular migraine from a vestibular nerve infection was suffering daily with drop-foot and neuropathy in his feet as well as his hands occasionally. After just a couple of sessions with the head harness and other LED pads on his legs, feet and hands, he was noticing a difference in his well-being and in the neuropathy and drop-foot condition. He is in hopes of resolution of this condition.
 
If you experience any of these or similar brain conditions, come in for an LED session with meand get the relief and recovery you have been needing. To make your appointment, call our front office at 972-930-0260.

What if there were a “Reset” button for pain?

Would you sometimes like to have a “reset” button you could push to get rid of pain in your body?  Well, there is, sort of.  Ever heard of Bowen Technique, Bowenwork, or Bowen Therapy?  There are different versions, but each one gives brand new signals for your brain and nervous system feedback loop to respond to.  It “deletes” bad signals, or actually breaks the pain/spasm/pain cycle, rendering the old improper signals ineffective.  Now your body can respond in a more proper way to new signals and without pain!Bowen Therapy pic

This is like rebooting a computer when the page is frozen and won’t refresh.  Rebooting gives you a fresh start.  Similarly, when you are in pain, your body is in crisis.  It keeps on remembering the signals it was receiving when an accident or injury happened, and it has gotten stuck.  What it needs is a fresh start with new signals to the nervous system.  Bowen Therapy, with its gentle plucking moves over muscles, tendons, fascia, and nerves, introduces just the right “input” to down-regulate the autonomic nervous system and take the body from a state of hypersensitivity (sympathetic overdrive) to a state of rest and relaxation (parasympathetic).

By doing this along the spine right at the beginning of a session, your body is now ready to respond quickly and with profound and lasting changes that address the core problem.  The autonomic nervous system has just been “reset.”  This process is just what the body needs, not only for acute injuries, but also for long-standing chronic conditions, like fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, TMJ syndrome, repetitive migraine headaches, and even multiple schlerosis.  How about telling someone you know in pain about Bowen Therapy.  It may just give them the breakthrough they’ve needed!

Best and Worst Foods for Migraines

Did you know that food can play an important part in triggering or preventing a migraine headache? Even though there are far more foods on the triggering side, don’t give up hope.  These foods can definitely help:

Ginger – a powerful anti-inflammatory that can ease chronic migraines, alleviate nerve pain and boost the immune system. It can be added to smoothies, juices, soups, salads, or used in baked dishes.

Water – essential to the proper functioning of the body. Dehydration is a common migraine trigger.

Riboflavin – also known as vitamin B2, this has been tied to the reduction in frequency of migraines. Can be found in lean beef, mushrooms, spinach, and broccoli.

Healthy fats – omega-3 fatty acids and monounsaturated fats can help reduce inflammation linked with migraine pain. One great source of Omega-3 is fatty fish, such as wild-caught salmon. Olive oil is a wonderful choice for monounsaturated fats. It has been shown in studies to decrease the duration, severity of pain, and frequency of migraine headaches.

Magnesium – linked by many studies with the natural prevention of migraines, particularly menstrual-related. Top food sources are quinoa, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, spinach, fresh amaranth, Swiss chard, brown rice, and whole grains.

Worst foods for migraineurs:

Tyramine or phenylethylamine – amino acids found in a variety of foods, like chocolate, aged cheeses, processed meats, fermented foods, citrus fruits, beans, avocados, vinegar, and soy foods.

Additives – MSG, nitrites, sulfites, artificial colors, and artificial flavors are all known to be possible migraine triggers. The reason is that they can increase the flow of blood to the head in many people.

Ice-cream/cold foods – cold foods can definitely cause headache pain. For migraine sufferers, the short-lived “brain freeze” can be just the start of a full-blown migraine. To be safe, avoid any extremely cold foods.

Alcohol – can cause dehydration, which is a trigger of headaches. If you choose to drink any kind of alcohol, it’s a good idea to alternate with glasses of water in order to replenish lost fluids. Also, keep in mind that fermented drinks like beer and wine contain tyramine.

Caffeine – can be a major migraine trigger especially if you drink more than one cup a day. Interestingly, once a migraine starts, caffeine can sometimes stop it in its tracks. Common sources:  coffee, tea, soft drinks, and energy drinks.

(for the full article from The Alternative Daily, click here)

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