Bowen for Business

There is a real opportunity in these difficult times, for companies, large and small, to minimise the financial and organisational problems caused by both short-term and long-term employee absenteeism.

An investment in targeted Bowen Therapy can provide valuable assistance, in maintaining the health and well-being of employees, increasing efficiency, enhancing productivity and reducing the cost of sick pay.

There are many situations where the risk of musculoskeletal disorders and/or emotionalstrain 'comes with the job'. For example:

Production line workers		Lifting, bending and stretching
Shelf-stackers Shop assistants		Standing for long periods of time
Check-out staff Office workers		Sitting for long periods of time
Computer operators		Using shoulders, arms, wrists and hands in repetitive actions for long hours
Sales personnel		Operating under constant pressure to meet targets and driving long distances
Supervisors Managers Executives		Long hours and stress

Bowen has a particularly strong record of success in the treatment of back pain, which is responsible for some 14 million working days lost every year in Britain. It regularly provides relief to sufferers for whom conventional treatment has failed to help. A national study, carried out by BTPA in the summer of 2006, showed that 95% of back pain sufferers experienced either complete relief or a marked improvement, after a series of no more that three Bowen treatments.

Bowen can be seen as a responsible way of improving and maintaining the welfare of employees, for example, in the context of the Health and Safety Executive's 'Better Backs' initiative.

Treatment by local practitioners
Through BTPA's national network of members, Bowen can be conveniently and directly delivered to staff, on-site or off-site, by local practitioners.

Specific agreements can be developed to meet organisational schedules and, if required, methods of recording progress can be set up in order to help companies evaluate impact.

A very cost effective option
Bowen offers the following advantages to any organisation concerned with the costs involved with staff healthcare:

- An extremely competitive fee structure, whether on-site or off-site

- A belief that too-frequent or unnecessary treatments are detrimental rather than helpful

- A higher-than-average success rate with symptoms where all else has failed or recovery has stalled

Specific rates for Bowen treatment will vary from area to area and whether the treatment is carried out on-site or off-site. An hourly or daily rate will therefore need to be negotiated on an individual basis. However, short-term injury is usually resolved in 1 - 3 treatments, while long-standing symptoms may require longer.

Many private health insurance companies’ benefits now include Bowen Therapy.

For more information about the sort of health problems with which Bowen can assist, please see the 'What Bowen Helps' section on the website.