Why Bowen For Injured Veterans?

For an injured solider, their trauma isn’t just skin deep…

Soldiers injured in combat can have much emotional anguish to deal with too. The state of the mind can have an effect on how well the body heals; the longer the body can take to heal the worse this can make them feel.

Bowen can have great effect in not just enabling people to recover quicker and increase mobility, but can also help emotionally, thus help soldiers to also come to terms with their injuries.

A client that comes to me with a severe spinal injury said:

[The Bowen Technique] has helped to keep me in the best physical condition to meet the demands of other medical treatments and procedures. The Bowen Technique has also helped me come to terms with the severity of my injuries without in any way giving in to them.

Another client who came to me suffering from shock and grief said:

Since the Bowen Technique I feel my old self has emerged again. I can face the day and cope with the stresses of everyday and have been able to start work again. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

Bowen can help soldiers just as it can help others. But for soldiers suffering from the extreme of injuries both physically and mentally, anything that is going to kick start their parasympathetic nervous system (also called rest and digest) to help them heal and bring them out of a state of shock and the state of survival ( sympathetic nervous system – fight and flight), is certainly going to be of  immense help.