Endometriosis Awareness Month
By Jackie
March is endometriosis awareness month and thousands of women are working hard to bring endometriosis to national attention. The endometriosis blog community is abuzz, trying to create unique and effective awareness campaigns.
Why does endometriosis need national attention? There are multiple reasons:. Despite the debilitating pain and dysfunction caused by endometriosis, there is still no simple diagnostic test for the disease (surgery is currently the only way to definitively diagnosis endometriosis). There is also still no cure for endometriosis. While treatment forms exist, these treatments cannot guarantee 100% removal of the disease or a patient’s return to a pain-free, normal life.
At Clear Passage Therapies (CPT), we offer treatment for the pain and dysfunction caused by endometriosis, but we do not treat or remove the endometriosis. Instead, our therapists address adhesions that may attach to endometrial implants. CPT theorizes that when endometrial implants attach to underlying surfaces, they may cause irritation and inflammation. This inflammation may lead to adhesion formation between the endometrial implants and nearby tissue. CPT postulates that when the endometrial implants swell each month in response to a woman’s natural hormone cycle, they pull on the adhesive attachments, causing pain. Our therapists work to slowly deform and detach these adhesions and many women find they no longer experience pain or dysfunction after our treatment. However, it is important to note that the endometrial implants remain. (To learn more about our treatment, please see our endometriosis page.)
No one knows exactly what causes endometriosis and more research is needed. However, research takes money and before medical companies, researchers, and other interested organizations are ready to invest, they want to understand why more research is needed. Endometriosis awareness month is an effort to bring attention to endometriosis so that others learn and understand the numerous issues and areas that merit and desperately need more research.
In an effort to aid endometriosis awareness, CPT is creating a special endometriosis newsletter for the month of March. In the newsletter we will provide free online copies of the endometriosis chapters from our upcoming book (see Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain), share the stories of two women with endometriosis, present articles related to endometriosis, and much more. If you would like to receive a copy, please sign-up for our newsletter here. Is there something you would like to see in the newsletter? Please leave a comment below to let us know. To learn more about endometriosis, please see www.endometriosis.org and Jeanne’s Endo Blog.
