The Clear Passage Story

by Belinda Wurn

Physical therapist Belinda Wurn

In 1984 I learned that I had cancer of the cervix. Following the diagnosis, I had surgery to my cervix and eight weeks of intensive internal and external radiation therapy. I survived the cancer, but the treatments designed to heal me left my lower abdomen, pelvis, and lower back scarred. All of my pelvic organs had become adhered to neighboring tissues and structures causing a ‘frozen pelvis’ (meaning nothing in my pelvis had normal mobility). I was also experiencing significant pain. When we found that conventional medicine offered little relief, we began to search for alternatives. My lifelong friend and husband, massage therapist Larry Wurn, and I began to search for relief from my debilitating symptoms. Together, we searched for relief among physicians and physical therapists throughout the U.S. and abroad. We wanted to avoid the medical treatment and surgery that had caused my pain and dysfunction. We began by taking post-graduate courses in manual physical therapy techniques.

As the first faint glimmer of hope dawned in my pain relief, our curiosity turned into a passion. Class followed class, and technique followed technique. The more we learned, the more fascinated we became. Soon we began developing our own techniques to treat chronic pain and other pelvic pain conditions.

We developed and refined our ability to palpate restricted areas in the body, first to treat me, then others. The results we were seeing in me and our patients turned our quest into a lifetime journey.

Clear Passage Therapies ® was born when we discovered that we could open blocked fallopian tubes without drugs or surgery. Some people find the story of this discovery fascinating, so I will relate it here, in brief.

We were treating a patient for back and pelvic pain in our physical therapy clinic in 1990. She was quite surprised to become pregnant, during therapy. She said to us, "How can I be pregnant? Both of my fallopian tubes are blocked, and have been for seven years! I have been sexually active all that time, and I never used birth control. I didn't have to. This pregnancy was totally unexpected. It's really a miracle!"

A physician friend heard about this case and referred two other infertile women to us. These women had "unexplained" infertility. When we treated them, they became pregnant as well. Both of the women had easy, successful live births.

Then the physician said to us, "Actually, my wife has been infertile for 12 years. She only has one tube, and it is totally blocked. She has a history of severe endometriosis, multiple ovarian cysts, and adhesions. She has had several invasive surgeries to try to ease her pain, and to try to help her conceive. Due to her only tube being blocked and her extensive scarring, her physicians gave up on her fertility many years ago. She is totally infertile. And now, at 41 years of age, she is practically menopausal. Do you think you can help her?"

We agreed to try to help her. She and her husband were quite surprised when she became pregnant after a few treatments of our non-surgical therapy. Nine months later, she gave birth naturally to a beautiful little girl. By then, our interest was highly piqued and we began to investigate further. So began a beautiful quest to restore fertility and allow life to spring naturally, without surgery or drugs. Clear Passage Therapies ® was born.

We were fascinated to have independent
proof that we could open fallopian tubes

At the urging of a local gynecologist researcher, we decided to conduct some clinical research to measure the effectiveness of our work in opening blocked fallopian tubes. We consulted the Chief of Staff of our local hospital, a gynecologist with significant research background. She proposed a clinical trial, in which we would treat a woman whose tubes were scientifically proven to be totally blocked. Then they would undergo dye tests after therapy, to see what, if anything, had happened.

The physician referred her most complicated patient to us for treatment. The patient had undergone an HSG (dye test), laparoscopy, and laparotomy (open surgery) in an attempt to open her fallopian tubes. Nothing had worked. Her pelvis was so adhered with scar tissue that she was also diagnosed with 'frozen pelvis'. Her reproductive organs were "stuck together" and both of her tubes were totally blocked. The results of our therapy on that patient were that we opened one tube completely, and the dye moved measurably further through the other tube.

That case study was remarkable. It was our first scientific proof that the therapy could decrease adhesions and open blocked fallopian tubes - without surgery! The next week, we found ourselves hiring a professional researcher from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD - the largest and most prestigious research organization in the world. He became excited at the chance to work on such pioneering research. As it happened, his son was a radiologist who had reviewed our "before and after" films and told his researcher/father about our remarkable case.

That researcher left NIH to come work with us. Since that time, we have been fortunate to attract other physician and PhD researchers who have joined our team. You can meet some of them at our Medical and Research Advisors page. We now have published research in peer reviewed medical journals and we recently had several abstracts accepted for presentation at a major gynecology conference.

We invite you to learn more about Clear Passage Therapies ® , a growing network of clinics across the US, and discover a place for true healing.