SOME PATIENT FEEDBACK
April 21, 2004
RE: Treatment from Dr. Mosher for bunion and corn
My initial visit to Dr. Mosher was prompted by a painful and persistent corn located between my little toe and its neighbor on my right foot. Dr. Mosher removed the corn and I got relief for a number of weeks. But it returned with a vengeance. This routine continued several times: comfortable for a short time but back to Dr. Mosher in weeks with the same complaint. Regardless of the treatment, the painful corn would return.
Walking was growing more and more painful and difficult for me. I had bunions on both feet, but the one on the right was growing more pronounced. I had developed a hard inflamed callused area under the bunion that raged with a burning sensation after walking a short while especially with shoes on. Thanks to the bunion and the displacement of my big toe, this area became my weight-bearing area while walking. This arrangement caused my knee to feel “twisted” and painful all the time, exacerbating my fibromyalgia pain.
I became quite discouraged one day with another corn and red inflamed foot. It was increasingly altering ability to function due to the pain and inflammation. Dr. Mosher removed the corn once again and then suggested I try regular Bowen treatments to treat the bunion that created the corn scenario. He made me an insert for my shoes and we started the treatments.
I am now walking properly on the ball of my foot [not on the side, “twisting” my knee] and I’m doing it comfortably. The callus is gone and so is the inflammation. Since starting the Bowen treatments, I’ve not had a recurrence of the corn either.
Life is just a whole lot more comfortable now!
Charlene W
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I came into the office at 9:00am on May 18, 2004 with a terrible sinus headache. I hurt from the top of my head down my neck and into my left shoulder. Plus I had been dizzy as well. I hadn’t taken anything for it because I knew I was going to get a Bowen treatment. My low back felt like it was out too. My left hip would hurt with certain movements.
After Dr. Mosher asked how I was feeling I told him “not too well”. I was looking forward to this treatment just to see if it would really help me.
I left the office at 10:00am and went to Sacramento to meet friends for lunch. During the lunch I still felt badly. My head hurt and I thought the treatment didn’t do anything for me. I stopped by Bel Air Market on my way home when I noticed that I didn’t have the headache or backache. I wasn’t sure though if it had really gone away. All evening I kept waiting for it to return and if it did then I would take a couple of aspirins. Just to be on the safe side I called for an appointment at the chiropractor’s office for the next day because I knew if my atlas was put back in then I wouldn’t have anymore problems. I have done this in the past. The next morning when I awoke I felt really good so I cancelled my appointment with the chiropractor and still today, May 29, 2004, I have not hurt all day. I am amazed at the results of this treatment. I began the treatments in March and had four treatments (one a week for the month). I left for the month of April and just began the treatments again in May. This is very surprising to me as I feel like nothing is really done to me but a little “strumming” on certain areas. I am impressed. I don’t hurt anywhere at this moment.
Arlene J.
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12-29-95
Last year, while doing floor exercises I injured the sciatic nerve. The pain went down my legs and into my feet. They became so painful, that I could not get my feet comfortable, worse at night. I didn’t sleep well at all.
I made an appointment with Dr. Mosher. He had helped me with a heel spur some years back. Frankly, I wondered what he could do. He talked to me about a method called Bowen he was learning. I was very willing to try it. I’m so glad I did, after only two treatments I was sleeping well!! And, my feet were comfortable again! I consider this treatment great!! A big heartfelt thanks to Dr. Mosher!!
Sincerely,
Myrlene F. S.
This was my very first Bowen Patient!
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May 20, 2004
Dear Dr. Mosher
I wanted to thank you for the wonderful service you have provided me. I came to you in November of 2003 with an extremely painful bunion. The pain in my foot had gotten so bad that my foot hurt nearly all the time. I went to see you in hopes that you could help me without having to perform surgery. When you explained the “Bowen “ technique I have to admit that I was skeptical, but at that point, willing to try anything! After approximately two Bowen treatments, the pain in my foot had gotten much better and after the third visit I was almost completely pain free. I was not only relieved that I did not have to have surgery, but thrilled at the results and wanted to share them with friends and family. By my second month of seeing Dr. Mosher and receiving the Bowen therapy I was pain free. Not only did my foot feel better, but the areas of my body where I normally carry stress had to dissipate also.
I am so thankful to Dr. Mosher and believe full heartedly that this technique should be tried on all patients before they even think of surgery.
Sincerely, Chiara M.
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To Whom It May Concern
12/05/2003
I have bunions on both of my feet that used to cause me great pain. I am not sure where these hideous things came from. I suspect they began forming for a number of reasons, one of which is directly my fault. I used to wear shoes to small for my feet during my pre-teen and teen years. As a result of this disregard for my feet (and other causes) I developed bunions and hammertoes. The left foot bunion was less severe causing my great toe to point toward my little toe by 20 degrees or more. The right foot bunion was much more troublesome causing my great toe to point to over 30 degrees toward my little toe. I went several years this way since I was unaware of any treatment besides surgery. I am very afraid of foot surgeries since I have heard so many negative outcomes from friends and family. By the end of most days my feet would just throb and nothing seemed to help. I tried foot bathes, massagers, warm packs, cold packs and so on. Nothing helped.
My mother was seeing Dr. Mosher since she has similar problems (did I mention inherited above?) with her feet. She also had problems with calluses and corns on various places on the feet and he was helping her by trimming her callused areas and helping her non-surgically to improve the overall alignment of her feet. She seemed to be benefiting from this therapy and encouraged me to go in for a consult.
I was quite skeptical, but agreed to give it a whirl. The doctor examined my feet and told me he felt he could help me. I agreed to try the treatment and he started immediately. He pared the calluses and placed splinting on my feet to help change my gait. Dr. Mosher also talked to me about doing some Bowen therapy, a treatment to help realign my muscles and other systems. I agreed to try this also feeling I needed all the help I could get.
His treatment plan began to provide me relief after only a few treatments. I began to feel better and really didn’t know why. One night after work it hit me; I was really able to relax! The old and ever present throbbing feet were missing! I now had feet that performed well but they no longer complained about it. What a great feeling!
I finished treatments 3 to 4 years ago and remain essentially pain free. I continue to have Bowen treatments whenever I start feeling uptight and know that something is out of balance. My left great toe is virtually straight and the right great toe is 10 degrees or less deviated. The hammertoes also disappeared during the treatment. I have thanked Dr. Mitchell R. Mosher many times over for his treatment of my foot problems and overall sense of well-being. I am so happy for the freedom from pain that I now enjoy. I continue to recommend Dr. Mosher many times to friends and family for problems with their feet and for stress release with the Bowen therapy.
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Dear Dr. Mosher:
For most of my adult life (I am now 49), I have had the ugliest toes. They have always been an embarrassment to me.
Approximately 1 year ago I came to you with a foot injury. After you treated my foot you suggested Bowen.
A month or so after the Bowen, I happened to notice my toes. The fungus was gone, and my toenails were actually turning pink again.
For once in my life, I can wear open toed shoes !
Thanks,
Jan B
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Dr. Mitchell R. Mosher
9/29/97
“ Bowen Technique”
Dear friend,
You are totally generous and charitable in your outlook, in help for people needing this technique.
You do the muscles using this Bowen technique, and are so gentle, so negligible in its’ outward malfestation, that you wonder whether it is really doing any good.
But I really know, I now walk without a cane and have no pain.
Thank you Dr. Mosher
Cordially,
Maurice R.
___________________________________________
Mon. Dec 8 1997
To Whom It May Concern
My name is Robert W. H. In July of 1997 I was involved in a devastating motorcycle accident. The right tibia and fibula were compounded and considerable tissue was ground off in the resulting fall onto the asphalt. This resulted in a sizable gap between the bones and resulted in my leg being encased in various types of casts for a period of 22 months. After a delayed bone graft (I sat on an electronic bone growth stimulator 16 hours a day for 8 months with no success in healing), and eventual bone mending no physical therapy was prescribed. My right foot seemed to be destined to never recover enough for normal function to even allow me to stand or walk for eve as much as four hours a day without producing intense pain that would at times, depending on how much I used it, cripple me for days on end.
Dr. Steven W., an Auburn, Ca. Podiatrist diagnosed plantar fasciitis, capsulitis, and tendonitis as I had orthotics made for my feet, which over the years were sometimes effective, allowing me to work on my feet 4 to 6 hours a day with tolerable pain levels. At other time periods the pain reduction from using orthotics was nil and crippling again became a life circumstance.
In April of 1995, I came to Dr. Mitchell Mosher, also an Auburn, Ca. Podiatrist, to have my orthotics re-made. At this time he gave me a treatment (one) of the Bowen Technique, telling me I may need to have a second treatment in the near future. I never went back for the second treatment and, the nearly full and complete function ability I have today took around 15 months to develop, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the phenomenon of healing in my right foot is the direct result of the applied Bowen Technique. I wholly recommend its trial by anyone who suffers the crippling effects of pain as I did for so many years.
Sincerely,
Robert W. H.
Sept. 28, 1996
Dear Dr. Mosher,
I just wanted to thank you for helping to make the quality of my life (and my daughter’s) better. When I thought I was facing surgery on my toe, I was pleasantly surprised to find Bowen Therapy straightening out my toe! Not to mention, my arm is better, and I’ve been known to get relief from a major sinus headache! My daughter, Kristy looks forward to the relax in stress reducing effects of this therapy, and so do I.
Dr. Mosher, you are a unique and caring physician and humanitarian, I am truly touched by your skill and compassionate ways.
Sincerely,
Liz H
Dr. Mosher,
How can I express my gratitude for how much one treatment of Bowen has helped me. I can breathe thru my nasal passage when lying down. I have always had to breathe thru my mouth. I have had to wear a brace on my arm from tendonitus in my elbow. Which I no longer have to do. I had back surgery in 1977 the scar tissue from that has always bothered me, It doesn’t now! In the past year I have had constant pain from spraining my ankle, breaking my leg and spraining my ankle the second time I no longer have pain.
I am so grateful to you for your concern for people that you have mastered this therapy
GOD BLESS!
Linda R.
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3-15-2000
Dear Doctor Mosher.
I can’t begin to thank you enough for your help. I am much better and hope to be able to again lay on my back for a nights rest in the next few days – I still am a bit gun shy to try it.
Sincerely,
Bill
I am a 51 year old male, for the past 10 years I have suffered from chronic soreness, and or pain all over my body. I have been called an enigma by a nationally known neurologist, miss diagnosed by another neurologist. Finally, another very well- known neurologist gave up and diagnosed me with chronic fatigue syndrome/ fibromyalgia. This led me to numerous attempts to solve my pain issues with narcotics, anti-inflammatory medicines, and muscle relaxers.
Recently, I decided to try the BOWEN TECHNIQUE. I experienced immediate relief from years of muscle and joint pain. When administered, I felt warmth pass through my back and legs. There was also some tingling sensations in my legs and ankles. On the day this was done I could not stand due to pain in my ankles and knees. All pain left my ankles, knees, feet, and muscles throughout my body. I was amazed and could not understand, all that I knew was I felt better than I had felt in many years. The treatment received was only a partial treatment session, which I found to be even more amazing. I have since, followed up with 2 more full sessions. I no longer take any pain medications. The pains have not returned and I continue to improve in areas I did not know I would. I have feeling in my feet that I lost in early adulthood. I have mobility in my hands, wrists, and ankles that I had lost about 5 years ago. It is so nice not to have my stomach upset by anti-inflammatory medicines. This has also helped improve my mental outlook on life. I am more anxious to be involved in daily activities of life that I had previously stayed away from.
I have had a great experience with this technique and would recommend just about anyone to give it a try. It is economical, and all you have to lose is ailments!
Feeling Better Every Day, Rodney S.
April 21, 2004
RE: Treatment from Dr. Mosher for bunion and corn
My initial visit to Dr. Mosher was prompted by a painful and persistent corn located between my little toe and its neighbor on my right foot. Dr. Mosher removed the corn and I got relief for a number of weeks. But it returned with a vengeance. This routine continued several times: comfortable for a short time but back to Dr. Mosher in weeks with the same complaint. Regardless of the treatment, the painful corn would return.
Walking was growing more and more painful and difficult for me. I had bunions on both feet, but the one on the right was growing more pronounced. I had developed a hard inflamed callused area under the bunion that raged with a burning sensation after walking a short while especially with shoes on. Thanks to the bunion and the displacement of my big toe, this area became my weight-bearing area while walking. This arrangement caused my knee to feel “twisted” and painful all the time, exacerbating my fibromyalgia pain.
I became quite discouraged one day with another corn and red inflamed foot. It was increasingly altering ability to function due to the pain and inflammation. Dr. Mosher removed the corn once again and then suggested I try regular Bowen treatments to treat the bunion that created the corn scenario. He made me an insert for my shoes and we started the treatments.
I am now walking properly on the ball of my foot [not on the side, “twisting” my knee] and I’m doing it comfortably. The callus is gone and so is the inflammation. Since starting the Bowen treatments, I’ve not had a recurrence of the corn either.
Life is just a whole lot more comfortable now!
Charlene W
___________________________________________
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I came into the office at 9:00am on May 18, 2004 with a terrible sinus headache. I hurt from the top of my head down my neck and into my left shoulder. Plus I had been dizzy as well. I hadn’t taken anything for it because I knew I was going to get a Bowen treatment. My low back felt like it was out too. My left hip would hurt with certain movements.
After Dr. Mosher asked how I was feeling I told him “not too well”. I was looking forward to this treatment just to see if it would really help me.
I left the office at 10:00am and went to Sacramento to meet friends for lunch. During the lunch I still felt badly. My head hurt and I thought the treatment didn’t do anything for me. I stopped by Bel Air Market on my way home when I noticed that I didn’t have the headache or backache. I wasn’t sure though if it had really gone away. All evening I kept waiting for it to return and if it did then I would take a couple of aspirins. Just to be on the safe side I called for an appointment at the chiropractor’s office for the next day because I knew if my atlas was put back in then I wouldn’t have anymore problems. I have done this in the past. The next morning when I awoke I felt really good so I cancelled my appointment with the chiropractor and still today, May 29, 2004, I have not hurt all day. I am amazed at the results of this treatment. I began the treatments in March and had four treatments (one a week for the month). I left for the month of April and just began the treatments again in May. This is very surprising to me as I feel like nothing is really done to me but a little “strumming” on certain areas. I am impressed. I don’t hurt anywhere at this moment.
Arlene J.
___________________________________________
12-29-95
Last year, while doing floor exercises I injured the sciatic nerve. The pain went down my legs and into my feet. They became so painful, that I could not get my feet comfortable, worse at night. I didn’t sleep well at all.
I made an appointment with Dr. Mosher. He had helped me with a heel spur some years back. Frankly, I wondered what he could do. He talked to me about a method called Bowen he was learning. I was very willing to try it. I’m so glad I did, after only two treatments I was sleeping well!! And, my feet were comfortable again! I consider this treatment great!! A big heartfelt thanks to Dr. Mosher!!
Sincerely,
Myrlene F. S.
This was my very first Bowen Patient!
___________________________________________
May 20, 2004
Dear Dr. Mosher
I wanted to thank you for the wonderful service you have provided me. I came to you in November of 2003 with an extremely painful bunion. The pain in my foot had gotten so bad that my foot hurt nearly all the time. I went to see you in hopes that you could help me without having to perform surgery. When you explained the “Bowen “ technique I have to admit that I was skeptical, but at that point, willing to try anything! After approximately two Bowen treatments, the pain in my foot had gotten much better and after the third visit I was almost completely pain free. I was not only relieved that I did not have to have surgery, but thrilled at the results and wanted to share them with friends and family. By my second month of seeing Dr. Mosher and receiving the Bowen therapy I was pain free. Not only did my foot feel better, but the areas of my body where I normally carry stress had to dissipate also.
I am so thankful to Dr. Mosher and believe full heartedly that this technique should be tried on all patients before they even think of surgery.
Sincerely, Chiara M.
___________________________________________
To Whom It May Concern
12/05/2003
I have bunions on both of my feet that used to cause me great pain. I am not sure where these hideous things came from. I suspect they began forming for a number of reasons, one of which is directly my fault. I used to wear shoes to small for my feet during my pre-teen and teen years. As a result of this disregard for my feet (and other causes) I developed bunions and hammertoes. The left foot bunion was less severe causing my great toe to point toward my little toe by 20 degrees or more. The right foot bunion was much more troublesome causing my great toe to point to over 30 degrees toward my little toe. I went several years this way since I was unaware of any treatment besides surgery. I am very afraid of foot surgeries since I have heard so many negative outcomes from friends and family. By the end of most days my feet would just throb and nothing seemed to help. I tried foot bathes, massagers, warm packs, cold packs and so on. Nothing helped.
My mother was seeing Dr. Mosher since she has similar problems (did I mention inherited above?) with her feet. She also had problems with calluses and corns on various places on the feet and he was helping her by trimming her callused areas and helping her non-surgically to improve the overall alignment of her feet. She seemed to be benefiting from this therapy and encouraged me to go in for a consult.
I was quite skeptical, but agreed to give it a whirl. The doctor examined my feet and told me he felt he could help me. I agreed to try the treatment and he started immediately. He pared the calluses and placed splinting on my feet to help change my gait. Dr. Mosher also talked to me about doing some Bowen therapy, a treatment to help realign my muscles and other systems. I agreed to try this also feeling I needed all the help I could get.
His treatment plan began to provide me relief after only a few treatments. I began to feel better and really didn’t know why. One night after work it hit me; I was really able to relax! The old and ever present throbbing feet were missing! I now had feet that performed well but they no longer complained about it. What a great feeling!
I finished treatments 3 to 4 years ago and remain essentially pain free. I continue to have Bowen treatments whenever I start feeling uptight and know that something is out of balance. My left great toe is virtually straight and the right great toe is 10 degrees or less deviated. The hammertoes also disappeared during the treatment. I have thanked Dr. Mitchell R. Mosher many times over for his treatment of my foot problems and overall sense of well-being. I am so happy for the freedom from pain that I now enjoy. I continue to recommend Dr. Mosher many times to friends and family for problems with their feet and for stress release with the Bowen therapy.
___________________________________________
Dear Dr. Mosher:
For most of my adult life (I am now 49), I have had the ugliest toes. They have always been an embarrassment to me.
Approximately 1 year ago I came to you with a foot injury. After you treated my foot you suggested Bowen.
A month or so after the Bowen, I happened to notice my toes. The fungus was gone, and my toenails were actually turning pink again.
For once in my life, I can wear open toed shoes !
Thanks,
Jan B
___________________________________________
Dr. Mitchell R. Mosher
9/29/97
“ Bowen Technique”
Dear friend,
You are totally generous and charitable in your outlook, in help for people needing this technique.
You do the muscles using this Bowen technique, and are so gentle, so negligible in its’ outward malfestation, that you wonder whether it is really doing any good.
But I really know, I now walk without a cane and have no pain.
Thank you Dr. Mosher
Cordially,
Maurice R.
___________________________________________
Mon. Dec 8 1997
To Whom It May Concern
My name is Robert W. H. In July of 1997 I was involved in a devastating motorcycle accident. The right tibia and fibula were compounded and considerable tissue was ground off in the resulting fall onto the asphalt. This resulted in a sizable gap between the bones and resulted in my leg being encased in various types of casts for a period of 22 months. After a delayed bone graft (I sat on an electronic bone growth stimulator 16 hours a day for 8 months with no success in healing), and eventual bone mending no physical therapy was prescribed. My right foot seemed to be destined to never recover enough for normal function to even allow me to stand or walk for eve as much as four hours a day without producing intense pain that would at times, depending on how much I used it, cripple me for days on end.
Dr. Steven W., an Auburn, Ca. Podiatrist diagnosed plantar fasciitis, capsulitis, and tendonitis as I had orthotics made for my feet, which over the years were sometimes effective, allowing me to work on my feet 4 to 6 hours a day with tolerable pain levels. At other time periods the pain reduction from using orthotics was nil and crippling again became a life circumstance.
In April of 1995, I came to Dr. Mitchell Mosher, also an Auburn, Ca. Podiatrist, to have my orthotics re-made. At this time he gave me a treatment (one) of the Bowen Technique, telling me I may need to have a second treatment in the near future. I never went back for the second treatment and, the nearly full and complete function ability I have today took around 15 months to develop, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the phenomenon of healing in my right foot is the direct result of the applied Bowen Technique. I wholly recommend its trial by anyone who suffers the crippling effects of pain as I did for so many years.
Sincerely,
Robert W. H.
Sept. 28, 1996
Dear Dr. Mosher,
I just wanted to thank you for helping to make the quality of my life (and my daughter’s) better. When I thought I was facing surgery on my toe, I was pleasantly surprised to find Bowen Therapy straightening out my toe! Not to mention, my arm is better, and I’ve been known to get relief from a major sinus headache! My daughter, Kristy looks forward to the relax in stress reducing effects of this therapy, and so do I.
Dr. Mosher, you are a unique and caring physician and humanitarian, I am truly touched by your skill and compassionate ways.
Sincerely,
Liz H
Dr. Mosher,
How can I express my gratitude for how much one treatment of Bowen has helped me. I can breathe thru my nasal passage when lying down. I have always had to breathe thru my mouth. I have had to wear a brace on my arm from tendonitus in my elbow. Which I no longer have to do. I had back surgery in 1977 the scar tissue from that has always bothered me, It doesn’t now! In the past year I have had constant pain from spraining my ankle, breaking my leg and spraining my ankle the second time I no longer have pain.
I am so grateful to you for your concern for people that you have mastered this therapy
GOD BLESS!
Linda R.
___________________________________________
3-15-2000
Dear Doctor Mosher.
I can’t begin to thank you enough for your help. I am much better and hope to be able to again lay on my back for a nights rest in the next few days – I still am a bit gun shy to try it.
Sincerely,
Bill
I am a 51 year old male, for the past 10 years I have suffered from chronic soreness, and or pain all over my body. I have been called an enigma by a nationally known neurologist, miss diagnosed by another neurologist. Finally, another very well- known neurologist gave up and diagnosed me with chronic fatigue syndrome/ fibromyalgia. This led me to numerous attempts to solve my pain issues with narcotics, anti-inflammatory medicines, and muscle relaxers.
Recently, I decided to try the BOWEN TECHNIQUE. I experienced immediate relief from years of muscle and joint pain. When administered, I felt warmth pass through my back and legs. There was also some tingling sensations in my legs and ankles. On the day this was done I could not stand due to pain in my ankles and knees. All pain left my ankles, knees, feet, and muscles throughout my body. I was amazed and could not understand, all that I knew was I felt better than I had felt in many years. The treatment received was only a partial treatment session, which I found to be even more amazing. I have since, followed up with 2 more full sessions. I no longer take any pain medications. The pains have not returned and I continue to improve in areas I did not know I would. I have feeling in my feet that I lost in early adulthood. I have mobility in my hands, wrists, and ankles that I had lost about 5 years ago. It is so nice not to have my stomach upset by anti-inflammatory medicines. This has also helped improve my mental outlook on life. I am more anxious to be involved in daily activities of life that I had previously stayed away from.
I have had a great experience with this technique and would recommend just about anyone to give it a try. It is economical, and all you have to lose is ailments!
Feeling Better Every Day, Rodney S.