ANKLE SPRAINS

I attended an advanced Bowen workshop one weekend and talked with a classmate about our experiences during the previous months performing the therapy.  He told me that he'd treated a number of football players at the University of California, Berkeley with acute ankle sprains with the,   " Ankle Procedure”.  He was doing this immediately after the injury.  I was amazed that he could do this in spite of pain and swelling that follows an ankle sprain.  

The following Monday morning, a father brought his 14-year-old daughter in who'd sprained her ankle playing soccer on Saturday.  Her ankle was extremely swollen, ecchymosed (bruised), and painful.  She was using crutches for ambulation and had an ace bandage wrapped around the ankle.  Following my examination, which only confirmed the obvious, I thought to myself, “Here goes nothing”, and I began a Bowen session.  I explained to father that the muscles enter a state of spasm following the trauma to guard the tissues from further injury, and this can perpetuate pain and swelling.  When it came time to do the “ankle procedure” following relaxation of all of the leg and thigh muscles, I noticed butterflies in my stomach.  I moved the anterior tibial tendon medially.  Then I slid my fingers over the lateral malleolus and posterior over the lateral collateral and my thumb over the deltoid ligament.   As I dorsiflexed and plantar flexed the first metatarsal my thoughts turned to the last part of the procedure which strikes the ball of the foot to, “Set” the ankle."  Much to my surprise, she didn't flinch as I struck the M-P joints with my closed fist.  

I invited her to stand up on her feet.   Following, which she walked out of the room quite normally and said, “Oh dad. You grab the crutches.”  I gulped, and thought, “Hooray, it worked!”  (To Find A Practitioner)
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