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The Bowen Technique R.S.I. (Repetitive Strain Injury)
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Today’s
Therapist
International
Trade Journal Issue 28
May June 2004
The Bowen Technique
R.S.I. (Repetitive Strain
Injury) by Janie Godfrey – with thanks to Alice Hughes
The effects of repetitive strain injury can make
themselves felt at any number of points along the pathway of the repeatedly
used area. It is very necessary to look
at the person as a whole because R.S.I. is almost always the manifestation of
misalignment in the spine, neck or jaw. It is not just the repetitiveness but how the body holds itself in
relation to all of the demands made on it, including the mental and emotional
demands. The very nature of Bowen is
that it treats the whole person and, in so doing, will prompt the rebalancing
and proper alignment of the source of the problem. A frequent sign of this response is that,
after a Bowen treatment, a person is much more aware of their body posture.
Bowen Technique practitioner Alice Hughes is the Student Health Advisor
at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and is also a Registered General
Nurse and has a MSc in Health Promotion.
She has had an exceptional amount of experience with the effect of Bowen
on R.S.I., as this is the exactly the kind of complaint that so many of the
students at Guildhall have, especially the music students. The constant pressure to give a first
class performance can produce both physical and psychological problems. Music students need to practise for several
hours a day. Their daily programme may
consist of Orchestral Training, recitals, teaching, individual practice and
outside engagements. Drama and Stage
Management students have to work long and intense hours, often working into the
evenings and weekends. Ambition often
drives students to exceed their physical limits.
During one year, Alice treated nearly 100 students
with Bowen, each student receiving an average of 3 treatments, one week
apart. The majority had long-standing
physical problems with injuries related to overuse, poor technique or poor
posture. As most music students started
playing an instrument aged eight or even younger, in addition to the new injury
they may have an old injury that needs to be treated as well. Alice has achieved a very high success rate
using Bowen to treat these students and very few have had to be referred for
any other treatment beyond Bowen.
A third year piano
student presented herself with a pain in her left wrist.
She had been experiencing pain for several years in her wrist and
forearm. Although she had seen other
health professionals nothing seemed to help.
After her first Bowen treatment her wrist felt much
improved and she was much more aware of her body posture. She felt relaxed and had a tingling sensation
in her back and arm, which lasted for several days following the
treatment. The second treatment was
given a week later. This time the
student reported that the pain had moved to her upper back and neck, possibly
the source of where the pain originated. Following three treatments this student was able to return to her full
timetable.
Vocal and wind instrument students appear to
benefit greatly from the Bowen Technique, particularly the moves that normally
benefit those with respiratory complaints.
It is not uncommon for the students to report a greater lung capacity
following a treatment.
Back and neck tensions, RSI, tense jaws, lower back
pain, frozen shoulders, sprained ankles (and more) have all been treated
effectively. Bowen Technique
practitioners regularly see very good resolutions in cases of R.S.I. no matter
what the contributing factors have been.
© E.C.B.S Janie
Godfrey is a Bowen Technique practitioner in Frome and has been in practice
since 1998. 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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