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The Bowen Technique - The essential hamstring move
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Today’s
Therapist
International
Trade Journal - Issue 11
Jul Aug 2001
The Bowen Technique - The essential hamstring move by Janie Godfrey
One
of the exercises on Advanced Bowen Technique workshops for experienced
practitioners is to answer the question:
“If I had only one Bowen move to use, which would it be and why?” For many therapists, the Hamstring Move would
be the move of choice.
The
muscle group collectively known as the hamstrings are a powerful and heavily
used group of muscles. Much is required
of them, whether you are a busy young mum, a professional athlete, a horseback
rider or just out for an evening’s dancing. The Bowen Hamstring Move is a key one for problems and pain in the lower
back because of the hamstring muscles’ connection to the processes of the whole
lower back region. In addition, because
of the correspondences between one area of the body and another, Bowen
practitioners have found the Hamstring Move is able to influence problems in
the shoulders and temporo-mandibular areas.
The
move sends a massive vibration through the muscle group and prompts the tone of
the muscle length to return and relax.
As soon as it relaxes, the sacroiliac joint drops back into
position. Bowen teacher and practitioner
Paula Esson says of the Hamstring Move:
“It is a huge, huge player for any injuries or complaints from the waist
down and certainly bowel problems as well.
In scoliosis or kyphosis, while you can’t change the curvature directly,
Bowen can release the surrounding connective tissue (fascia).”
Bowen
teacher and practitioner David Howells finds the Hamstring Move has a great
balancing effect. It balances the pelvis
and the pelvis is absolutely basic to the whole body. The Hamstring Move is very frequently used to
provide a foundation for the rest of the bodywork. David treats many athletes, both amateur and
professional, and footballers with hamstring problems are very often back in
play, better than before, after just one Bowen
treatment. In addition, the athletes all find that The
Bowen Technique enhances their performance.
Paula Esson, who was head of Sports Science at Gateshead College,
couldn’t agree more with this observation.
She says:
“Improvement
with Bowen in sports is superb – the player is better focused and more in tune
with his/her own body’s performance. If
the body is in balance and the musculo-skeletal system is recruiting in the
right order the player is mentally free and more fluid to concentrate and focus
on the game. It is almost as if you can
take a step back from yourself and you can focus on the game tactics with
greater clarity.”
And
it is not just athletes who have bad hamstring injuries. David treated an 82-year-old woman who
injured a hamstring as a result of a slip on a bus in winter. She was delighted to find that after only one
treatment, she was back to normal and pain free.
© E.C.B.S
Janie
Godfrey is a Bowen Technique practitioner in Frome and has been in practice
since 1998. She also works part time at
the European College of Bowen Studies office.
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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