Ha die Isaac,
In my opinion, Bowen is a copy-cat of shiatsu massage. All kinds of points
have already been described in the latter.
Whether it works or not, I don't really know. I've never used it
extensively, and I've never seen a study on the efficacy. What I do know is
when I was a PT student I did a sort of paper on acupuncture. For this
purpose, I went to see an acupuncturist doing treatments, on among others an
MS patient. The acupuncturist claimed he was in the process of curing this
patient, and the pt. himself confirmed that he was doing a lot better than a
couple of weeks before. He wasn't in a serious state yet; no paralysis yet,
although the diagnosis had been confirmed by a neurologist.
Only later, I learned that MS has periods of improvement and even remission
of the symptoms, only to see that the symptoms later come back, and in a
worse form. This is typical for MS, if I'm informed well (I've always
concentrated on orthopaedic PT, since I found that far more interesting, so
please correct me if I'm wrong). When I learned that, I had to think back of
that particular pt., and I realised that he could well have been in between
two episodes, with temporary spontaneous remisson.
Groet,
Frank
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From: "Neumann Isaac Rutger, Granheim"
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Sent: maandag 1 oktober 2001 14:35
Subject: Bowen, Rolfing & MS
I saw a program on discovery-channel about MS and Bowen-therapy. The
MS-patient who received this treatment was very satisfied about the result.
I remember that we had this discussion not too long time ago, but I forgot
most it.
What is Bowen and how does it differ from Rolfing? For me it looks a bit the
same.
Rain, rain, rain in Lillehammer
Isaac
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