Canine Bowen Technique (CBT) is based on the principles of the Bowen Technique. It is a light touch soft-tissue remedial technique involving the practitioner moving fingers or thumbs lightly over muscle, ligament, tendon and fascia at specific points of the dog’s body. The work is very subtle and involves no hard or prolonged pressure. It offers dogs a gentle, non-invasive and effective hands-on technique that aims to promote healing, pain-relief, chemical/hormonal balance and physical/emotional rebalancing.
Canine Bowen Technique is a holistic technique. So whilst a session may be offered to support symptoms of a specific diagnosed disease, condition, illness or injury, the dog will always be treated as a whole.
Canine Bowen Technique is not a substitute/replacement for normal veterinary care, but should be considered as complementary to it. With this in mind, should you wish to offer your dog Canine Bowen Technique, I ask that you inform your vet of this, and kindly ask them to sign a form I will issue you on request of sessions for your dog.
Canine Bowen Technique aims to promote and support the body’s own powers of self-healing and has been offered for many years to support dogs with problems in the following areas:
- Acute injury e.g. sprains and strains.
- Chronic conditions and degenerative disease – helping to improve the dog’s quality of life.
- Rescue/re-homed dogs – relaxation of tension caused by earlier stress and trauma.
- Pre– and post-operative surgery – assisting recovery times.
- Fear-based anxiety – such as fireworks and thunderstorms.
- Autoimmune conditions
Our aim is to facilitate the channelling of the dog’s own resources so that it can determine how to heal itself. In this respect, therefore, Canine Bowen Technique can be almost all-embracing in its coverage. Although generally regarded as ‘remedial’, Canine Bowen Technique can also be used to good effect as a maintenance and a prevention technique, helping to keep the body in optimum balance.
To this end, it is likely to be very beneficial for active, hard-working dogs or enhancing the performance of dogs used for competitions in obedience, agility, or trialling.
Common conditions which are often presented at Canine Bowen Technique sessions
include:
- Allergies and Skin conditions
- Arthritis and Muscular Sprains & Strains
- Back problems
- Lameness and other Gait problems
- Hip & Elbow Dysplasia
- Working or Competition dogs
- Dogs that pull on the lead
- Aggression and other Behavioural problems
- Stress & Anxiety disorders
- Cystitis & Urinary disorders
- Recurrent Ear problems
- Sciatica
- Pre/post surgery balance and relaxation
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