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The PERFECT REMEDY FOR Pain Sufferers: The Galatea Method


For Megan B., it started with aches and pains in childhood, assumed to be growing pains. Backaches, headaches and sore knees often prevented Megan from enjoying her youth. Doctors insisted that the pains were due to growth spurts, and assured Megan that her pain would soon go away. But it didn’t go away: it got worse.

Megan’s suffering continued into adulthood and, after going through a very difficult divorce, her stress level went off the charts. It was then that her pain became more widespread and constant…and eventually unbearable. Some days it was all she could do to walk her three kids to school in the morning. Other days her legs aches so much she couldn’t even manage the three blocks to the school.

Three years ago Megan walked into her doctor’s office in tears, unable to take the pain anymore. Her doctor ordered every test available, but after x-rays, cat scans, MRI and various specialists the only conclusion was the assumption of Fibromyalgia. Megan was sentenced to a life of suffering , with Tylenol 3’s and antidepressants as her daily staples. Regular chiropractic visits helped in the beginning; in fact 3 to 4 visits per week prevented Megan from being completely bedridden, but after a while the chiropractic adjustments became too painful.


It was on a particularly difficult day that Megan was talking to a friend who was telling her that she had just been for some Bowen Therapy and how great she was feeling after only two treatments for sciatica. Her friend tried to explain the treatment and really stressed the fact that it was very gentle and addressed the whole body.

“I had never heard of Bowen,” Megan recalls, “but I was so desperate I called The Galatea Method. After my second treatment I felt significant relief from my pain and after four treatments I gained movement in my neck. For the first time in years I was waking up in the morning without a headache. Without question the treatments I have received from Ady Strickland at The Galatea Method have changed my life!”


The technique involves gentle, precisely placed, soft tissue manipulation at specific locations along the spine, legs, arms and neck. Its founder, Tom Bowen described the technique as a “gift from God”, as he was able to intuitively identify problem areas in the body and simply release the tension. Since his passing, Tom Bowen’s method has evolved into a well-structured series of procedures. The practitioner rolls a fingertip over the muscle or tendon, disturbing it, without sliding the skin. There is a subtle vibrational effect through the muscle that affects the nervous system. It is like plucking a guitar string or letting go of a string on a bow and arrow. It can be described as “playing the nervous system.”

Bowen Therapy is not only effective for fibromyalgia, it can be used to treat spinal issues, sports injuries (the more acute the injury the better), frozen shoulder, whiplash, infertility, arthritis, tennis elbow and asthma to name a few. It also has a dynamic impact on the liver, kidneys, intestines as well as endocrine, adrenal and thyroid function. To sum it up…Bowen reminds the body how to heal itself in a surprisingly small number of treatments, no x-rays or other tools required. Results are long-term and most clients do not need to return unless they re-injure themselves.


Megan, who had been forced to leave her part-time job because of the pain, no longer sits at home in tears. She has now returned to work, enjoys walking her kids to and from school, and runs with her dog. “Am I cured?” Megan asks, “am I totally pain free? No. I still have occasional bad days but they are so few and far between and they are manageable. I am off of the anti-depressants and I rarely need to take a pain-killer. Thanks to Ady Strickland at the Galatea Method I finally have my quality of life back!”


The Galatea Method for Natural Health and Wellbeing is located at 60 Russell Street West in Lindsay next to NYO. Ady Strickland has been practicing holistic complementary therapies for 16 years and specializes in the Bowen Technique, Holistic Nutrition Counselling, Exercise Rehabilitation and is currently studying Classical Homeopathy. She can be reached at 324-7037. For more information go to www.galateamethod.ca

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Love Bottles

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