05/11/2022
Let me tell you a story about pain, lack of mobility and recovery from surgery.
As a Bowen therapist, I love how this wonderful therapy can make a real, positive difference in the lives of the people I work with every day.
But it’s not often that I get to share, from personal experience, just how great it has been for my own health and wellbeing.
An experience this week has reminded me just how much Bowen Therapy can help with recovery from injury, and in my case, surgery.
A couple of weeks ago I had surgery to remove a large tumour, thankfully benign, from my thigh. Muscles in the front of my thigh had to be split for the surgeon to get to the tumour to remove it. The scar isn’t pretty.
Surgery went well but it was very invasive and has meant the leg will be very weak during the recovery phase, which is proving slow and frustrating.
I haven’t been able to lift the leg in front of me at all and bending the knee has been very painful.
A task as simple as getting dressed or getting into a car has been very difficult and downright painful.
But a Bowen Therapy session yesterday has improved things dramatically. My therapist was Karen, from Border Natural Therapies in Wodonga. Karen has been my teacher and mentor from the beginning of my Bowen journey. She has been a huge influence and I’m so appreciative of the knowledge and guidance she has given me.
And the treatment she gave me was fantastic. To say that there has been an improvement in the leg would be a real understatement.
I’ve had more improvement in the ability to move the leg, strength and a reduction in pain during the past 24 hours, following the Bowen treatment, than there has been in the previous two weeks.
I know Bowen helps recovery, but the results have been pleasantly surprising.
It’s such a relief to be moving better with a lot less pain, I can now walk reasonably comfortably and simple tasks are no longer such a challenge.
Recovery is happening much faster, thanks to Bowen Therapy. I can’t wait for my next session.
I know how good Bowen Therapy can be for a body and I love telling people about it.
Get in touch with me if you would like to learn how Bowen Therapy can help you move, recover and live better.