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A session lasts from 1 hour and a half to 2 hours with the client resting comfortably on a message table or sitting in a chair.

Initially two sessions are scheduled a week apart. Clients usually see significant improvement within two sessions. Additional sessions are scheduled at least a week apart as needed, with most conditions resolving within 3-8 sessions.

Helping the body remember how to heal. The specific objectives may differ, but there is always focus on relaxation, reduction of "fight or flight response", and engagement of the body's perfect pattern memory for the area that is in pain, contracted or otherwise out of balance

The problem may come back if issues of muscle weakness and stamina, and the possibility of re-injury are not addressed. If the clients supports their recovery with appropriate activity, good nutrition, hydration, and avoids re-injury, the likelihood of the problem returning is very low.

With minimum stress to the body, it focuses the innate healing capacity of the body exactly where it is needed to facilitate speedy recovery, pain relief and healing.

It is the powerful combination of body systems responsible for tissue repair, nutrition, waste disposal, muscle length, nerve health and blood flow. It takes care of traumas and injuries, renewing injuries, recovering lost function, feeding and cleaning the body, relieving pain and regenerating tissue. This is done constantly throughout the body to keep us healthy. It gets sidetracked due to injury, overuse, stress or continuing imbalance of the body. This can result in a disconnect from normal healing and recovery functions

While it is helpful in many situations, it often has its most dramatic effects in addressing recent injuries. The sooner Bowenwork is applied to an injury, the faster and more powerful the recovery can be. Helping the body bypass the unnecessary pain and inflammation reactions and gets right to healing.

Even with a chronic problem, Bowenwork will assist the body in recovering its healthy balance. Chronic problems may respond more slowly as the body works to change a familiar unhealthy pattern to a new healthy one.

Most massage techniques are applied to the muscle strokes going with the fibers of the muscle. Also, usually with massage, groups of muscle are rubbed at once. The Bowen method is applied to specific points in the muscle where tension tends to accumulate. These moves are applied across the fiber of the muscle rather than with the fiber. This allows the fascia of the muscle to be released, restoring blood flow and allowing the muscle to return to its normal state of tension. These moves only need to be applied one or two times to sufficiently release accumulated tension. This greatly reduces damage to the muscle caused by creating micro-tears in the muscle from over working tight muscle tissue.

Chiropractic basically believes that most of the body's problems stem from the spine being out of alignment. With Bowenwork, we believe that the reason the spine becomes out of alignment is due to tight muscles pulling on their spinal attachments, causing the misalignment. This is why chiropractic adjustment sometimes do not hold. Until the tension in the muscle pulling on the bone gets released, it will continue to cause misalignment. Bowenwork accomplishes this more than any other modality.