BioValentSystems.com is a Spokane, WA area massage training school
Title
Biovalent Systems
Description
It’s natural to inquire about any therapy with which you may want to receive treatment. Often, clients ask, “Is it like Craniosacral Therapy, or Neuromuscular Therapy, or Rolfing, or Visceral Manipulation?” Biovalent® Systems Manual Therapy is as different from other forms of therapy as the aforementioned forms are from each other. This field is still in development. The best descriptions we can provide are the foundations and rationales for what we are currently teaching.
Frank Lowen is a massage therapist who studied many forms of manual therapy before focusing first on Craniosacral Therapy, studying with Osteopath, John Upledger. Later, Frank studied Visceral Manipulation extensively with French Osteopath, Jean-Pierre Barral, with whom he worked closely for fifteen years. Frank became the Visceral Manipulation Program Director for Upledger Institute for many years (Visceral Manipulation focuses on internal organs) and Frank’s development as a manual therapist was greatly influenced by these teachers. Eventually, Frank left Upledger to focus on his original material, Biovalent® Systems Manual Therapy. This work was inspired by, but not derived from those teachings.
Frank adopted Barral’s philosophy that “symptoms do not appear until the body’s ability to compensate has been used up”. When a person has symptoms (e.g., pain, itching, dizziness, weakness, spasm, fatigue, etc.), they usually have patterns and restrictions that the which the body has accommodated. Symptoms may have little relationship with the initial or most significant challenge for that individual. Treating symptoms may bring temporary relief, but this is often futile for providing long-term results, regardless of whether the complaint is pain, neurological in nature or a physiological dysfunction.
