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The Bowen Technique Back pain – the knock on effects of pain relief
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Today’s
Therapist
International
Trade Journal - Issue 43
Nov Dec 2006
The Bowen Technique
Back pain – the
knock on effects of pain relief by Janie Godfrey
The effects of sorting out one physical
problem can often have other happy consequences in a person’s state of health
and well being. This was illustrated
very well in the case of Mr A., a 64-year-old retired farmer, who I treated
recently.
History: arthritis diagnosed in spine in 1995
after a history of back pain due to hard work and jarring jumps onto concrete.
April 1998:
operation to relieve ‘gaspingly awful pain’ in back and to correct
spinal stenosis.
Dec 2000:
second operation for pain to try to relieve ‘awkward’ scar tissue from
first operation.
2003:
in hospital for 8 – 9 weeks with pain – doctors wouldn’t operate again,
and he was put on epidural injection as maintenance but this has ‘been awful’
since.
December
2005. His last epidural was apparently
improperly administered and they ‘touched a membrane’. The Hospital, clearly worried that something
was amiss, rang him every day to see if he was all right, but he was not: he was sweating, was not mentally ‘with it’,
wasn’t eating. His wife rang the Pain
Clinic to inform them. No treatment or
admission to hospital was offered to him.
His reaction went on for 10 days before it cleared. He has not had any epidurals since. March 2006:
he ‘fell in a heap’ with severe pain and a doctor did a house call. Diagnosed sciatica. He was sent to a physio and this eased the
extreme pain a bit but he still felt very uncomfortable and inflexible. Also, his right knee had felt weak since his
collapse. Also, his perception of his
right knee is that it is stone cold, although it feels warm to the external
touch.
6 April 06:
came for first Bowen treatment. Chief complaint was pain in both legs – burning sensation and
cramp. Also severe and restricting back
pain. Mr A. is on the following medications to
control pain:
Diclofenac – 1 x day
Cocodamol –
as needed for pain Nortriptyline 10mg – 6 x night
Dihydrocodeine 90mg – 2 x day
Oramorph 10 mg – as needed for pain
He also takes: Seratide – morning & evening for asthma Salbutamol – as needed for asthma Ramipril – 1x day for high blood pressure Tamuloson Hydrochloride 1xday to stimulate
urination
Immediately after his first Bowen
treatment, he was amazed how much looser he felt, much more flexible. As he stood up after treatment, he leaned
over to pull his shoes closer to him, using his hand. Then he realised that he hadn’t done that in
a very long time as he would ‘normally’ have used his stick to move his shoes
closer because he was too stiff and in too much pain to actually bend over. But now, he had actually leaned over
automatically, without thinking, and it hadn’t hurt him – he was
astonished.
13 April 2006: one week later, he came for his second Bowen
treatment. He reported that the
intervening week had been ‘brilliant’.
He had had only one day with pain in his right knee, for no obvious
reason, and it was gone the next day. He
was no longer experiencing the burning pains and cramping in his legs and was
feeling as if he had a whole new lease on life.
28 April 2006: because he was doing so well, the third Bowen
treatment took place after a fortnight’s break.
He reported that he had continued to be absolutely fine over the
fortnight. He had just experienced an
occasional twinge when standing up after sitting. He also reported stiffness in his legs upon arising
in the mornings but it wears off quickly as he moves about. Right knee still feels weak and he perceives
it as cold, but this is now a minor irritation because he is so much improved
otherwise.
18 May 2006: after a break of three weeks, he reported
that he has not been bad at all. He had
only one day with any real pain, again in his right knee, and he couldn’t put
any pressure on it for a day. He had run
out of dihydrocodeine a week or so before and had decided to stay off of
it. But he feared that his right knee
pain might have been because of coming off of it so suddenly, so he got some
more and would now try to come off of it very slowly, decreasing the amount bit
by bit. He also reported that he had
completely come off the oramorph, the diclofenac and the cocodamol and he had
cut the nortriptyline from 6 per night to 3 per night.
In addition to the greater mobility and
freedom from constant pain that Mr A has enjoyed, the effect of coming off of
all of his pain medication has been relief from long-standing and very
uncomfortable constipation. He is
thrilled with this unexpected bonus and, of course, it makes a big difference
to his daily life.
As I write, in October 2006, Mr A.
continues to be free of his back and leg pain.
He has been off the dihydrocodeine now for some months and is fine
without it. He enjoys Bowen treatment
for the relaxation it gives and for this reason, as well as a preventive, he
continues to have a treatment every 5 -
8 weeks. Contents
provided by the European School of Bowen Studies (ECBS) For
further details about the Bowen Technique please contact Karen on 01954 260 982
/ 07714 995 299 or email [email protected] |
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