Using Bowen to help Injury Recovery (Broken Foot with Back Pain from the Airboot)

Back Pain from Walking in an Airboot
 
Beth is a photographer who broke her foot in June 2017 and had been in an airboot for 6 weeks when she came to see me, initially asking if I could help with a pain that she got in her finger sometimes when unzipping her camera, and because her shoulders get stiff from work.

Her foot was healing on schedule and felt reasonably ok to her, though it would swell in the evenings. However, her right lower back and glute were in constant pain from the way that the airboot was making her walk. Assessment showed that the bones in her feet were slightly out of position.

I could see from her walking at the end of the session that the lower back was still locked up, so did a release technique on her, which stopped the lower back pain instantly. After the treatment she was very tired and “could have slept for a lifetime”. The pain in her back/glute went for about 5 days and just started returning the day before the second treatment

Whole Body Compensation After a Broken Foot
 
A few days later she had an appointment with the specialist when the airboot came off. When she came back the second time her calf had been painful and “intensely unpleasant” since removing the airboot: a few days before she had sat for 20 mins for lunch and couldn´t walk afterwards.

I noticed, however, that her body was generally much more relaxed than it had been in the first week. Her shoulders especially felt noticeably less tense. The third week she was feeling good. She´d worked the day before, which had been quite hard on her foot, but had been feeling very focussed after the last session and had been sleeping very deeply.

Her left calf had hardly been painful at all since I worked on it the week before. The pain in the back and bottom had totally gone. She also told me that her restless leg (which she hadn´t even thought to mention in the first session) had almost totally stopped bothering her.

​Her finger pain (the original reason for coming) hasn´t bothered her since she´s been seeing me. Her foot is doing pretty well, and the bone position improved after I did some ankle and foot work. I now see her about every 4-6 weeks, for a “tune up” and to work with shoulder issues which work makes worse for her. 

“Bowen has been a complete revelation for me. I had no idea what it was or how it worked, but was happy to try anything after 6 weeks in an air boot. I had been having massage to release the blockages in my lower back and glute, but it was only a temporary help.
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Bowen came as a complete surprise as to how released my body became after one treatment. The treatment itself also came as a surprise: it was so un-invasive, and felt gentle and controlled. A slight manipulation of the body which works wonders. It felt like my muscles were being gently rolled.

After the first treatment I literally could have cried because I felt so released from the pains and it lasted which was great. I was also really tired and slept so well and deeply especially during the first week. My second treatment only seemed to improve things further and other noticeable aches and pains that I had generally been living with for years seemed to have lessened considerably. Things such as tight shoulders and stiff neck.

I would highly recommend Bowen and have done to several friends. I like the fact it is not a continuous treatment and things have improved and disappeared altogether after a few treatments. It felt like I was a very tightly knotted ball of string that James patiently yet quickly unravelled into a long, taught piece of string.”