In this video, patients share their experiences with Clear Passage Physical Therapy. Listen as previous patients describe their first impressions of the clinics and their opinions about their daily treatment sessions with their Clear Passage therapists. Our patent-pending manual therapy, the Wurn Technique, is used to naturally treat infertility, obstructions and chronic pain. Hear our patients describe how they felt as a result of the therapy they received at one of our nationwide clinics.
Amy Robinson is the Clinic Director of the Clear Passage Physical Therapy clinic in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Why do you love your job?
I love to help people. I love when people come in and they are in pain and after undergoing treatment, as long as someone listens to them, they can get better.
What is your experience as a physical therapy?
I have been a therapist for 16 years. I graduated from Indiana University in Indianapolis, Indiana. I worked in every setting from a hospital setting to long term care. Eventually I worked in an outpatient setting and I have been working as a women’s and men’s health physical therapist for the past ten years
What inspired you to become a therapist?
I was inspired to become a physical therapist after growing up and watching my grandfather go through physical therapy after suffering multiple strokes. I myself had some injuries. I was in track in high school, and had to attend physical therapy.
How would you describe the treatment at Clear Passage Physical Therapy?
The patient and I are definitely a team it is a team approach. From the point the patient fills out the initial intake paper work to the critical first evaluation, the patient really takes the lead in the evaluation and the treatment. They understand what they are feeling, and as a therapist, if I listen to the patient they guide me to where I need to treat, which in the end helps them get better faster.
I feel like it is a huge downfall in the health care industry today in that practitioners are not given enough time to adequately listen and then treat their patients. The time is not a factor at Clear Passage Physical Therapy. Because we are allowed to listen to the patient as long as we need to and fully evaluate the patient and treat them. Once we put our hands on the patient along with what the patient has already verbally told us, it allows us to go in and treat the areas that have often been pain generator for many years. I often hear patients say, “This was the pain I have been telling my doctor about for the last ten years but no one could seem to find it and you found it, and I feel so relieved it’s not in my head.”
Why are you excited to be a therapist at Clear Passage?
I am very excited about the opportunity to start working with patients who are suffering with infertility issues. I myself have had issues with infertility for multiple years, and it has really drawn me to work with women and their significant others in order to allow them to have the family that they desire to have
What does Indianapolis have to offer?
You should come to the Indianapolis clinic because it is very easily accessible by air or by the interstate systems. Indiana is known as the crossroads of America. It is also very affordable and very easy to get around Indianapolis.
What is your clinic like?
With patients who have been suffering from chronic pain for many many years, they sometimes just need a private and comfortable place to allow for healing to occur. At Clear Passage Indiana, our clinic is set up to allow for that comfortable environment. If you listen to the patient the patient can direct you where to treat and they can get better.
Belinda Wurn
What is your name?
Belinda Wurn
How long have you been a physical therapist (or PTA/LMT)?
36 years
How long have you been practicing the Wurn Technique?
22 years
How did you first become interested in this work?
I was trying to figure out how to get myself out of the chronic pain I was experiencing after 40 external radiation treatments and 2 internal radium implants for cervical cancer in 1984.
Belinda Wurn, PT treating a patient in Gainesville, FL
Where did you grow up?
Jacksonville, Florida. I lived in the Arlington area, and went to the beach (30 minutes away) every free minute I had!
What’s your favorite food?
Seared fois gras or else good pizza
Where did you receive your education?
The University of Florida (go Gators!)
What is your philosophy on continuing education?
From 1988 until 1999, I took 4 to 6 courses a year. There was so much knowledge out there about different myofascial and visceral manipulation techniques, I wanted to learn it all. I think continuing education is extremely valuable. The techniques I use now are not ones I learned in PT school. You get the basics there, but in order to develop your work into an art- it is vital to keep up with the latest techniques that are developed over time.
Belinda with her two beautiful golden retrievers
What conditions do you have experience treating?
Chronic and complex pain, women’s health issues (pain with intercourse, painful periods, endometriosis, urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction), bowel obstructions, post-surgical adhesions, headaches, facial and jaw pain, tailbone pain, abdominal, pelvic, back or neck pain
Where is your favorite place to go on vacation?
France and Italy, Africa on safari
What is your favorite part about treating patients?
Hearing from them at the end of the week and seeing on their faces that they feel so much better, and I have helped give them back their active lifestyle.
What one word describes you best?
Caring
What drives you every day?
Helping to relieve my patient’s pain. Coming home to the lake and playing with my 2 beautiful Golden Retrievers!
What is your name?
Larry Wurn
How long have you been a therapist?
Since 1989, so 22 years
Larry with his beautiful bride, Belinda on their wedding day.
How long have you been practicing the Wurn Technique?
My wife Belinda and I began developing it in 1989. We then incorporated Clear Passage in 1995.
How did you first become interested in this work?
It began when my wife developed debilitating adhesions, after surgery and massive doses of radiation therapy.
Where did you grow up?
Jacksonville, Florida, then moved to San Francisco in 1969. I became Guest Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1972, coordinating large, multi-museum shows throughout the San Fransisco Bay area for the next three years.
What’s your favorite food?
I love Indian and Thai food, and anything with lots of garlic!
Where did you receive your education?
University of North Carolina, then transferred to San Francisco State University during a very exciting time in the early 70’s. That was when our campus became a center of protest of the Viet Nam War. I can still remember police on horseback herding students into or away from certain buildings – while I was just trying to get to class.
What is your philosophy on continuing education?
Continuing education is vitally important. You never stop learning. I learn every day from study, from my co-workers, and from my patients.
What conditions do you have experience treating?
My main focus centers around the adhesions that form wherever the body heals. I have extensive experience treating chronic pain, bowel obstruction, female infertility, endometriosis, intercourse and menstrual pain, TMJ, chronic head and neck pain, low back and post-surgical pain.
Where is your favorite place to go on vacation?
Anywhere exotic – where there is no fax machine, phone service or Internet! My favorite is being “away from it all.” For that reason, I love to scuba dive – to just be one of the fish!
What is your favorite part about treating patients?
I love giving people back their lives, and helping make their dreams come true.
Larry treating a patient at Clear Passage's National Headquarters in Gainesville, FL
What do you hear patients say most often after receiving treatment?
“I don’t want to leave; I wish I lived here.”
What one word describes you best?
Inspired.
What drives you every day?
There are people suffering with physical needs that have found no relief, or whose conditions have worsened, using traditional medicine – drugs or surgery. Some have debilitating pain, some have life-threatening conditions; many have been told “there is nothing that can be done for you” or “it’s all in your head” when it is clear to us that they have very real, tangible problems. In most cases, these are conditions that we can reverse.
I love it that we are so often able to give people back pain-free lives and hope using a non-invasive therapy that is based on compassion, and grounded in science.
I love it that to be successful, we must deeply listen to our patients, ask them what they are feeling, and even what they feel needs to happen in their bodies for them to reach their goals. Thus, we empower each patient to help create and direct her/his own cure. Working together with patients to achieve a great result is exciting, powerful and humbling. I am truly blessed to be able to work with people in need, and to help them find a new life, and achieve their goals.
Kathy is an accomplished equestrian
What is your name?
Kathy Hess
How long have you been a physical therapist?
31 years
How long have you been practicing the Wurn Technique?
I have been certified in the Wurn Technique for six months, but I have been doing most of the hands-on techniques for over 15 yrs.
Which Clear Passage clinic location do you work at?
I am the clinic director for the Northern Virginia location.
How did you first become interested in this work?
I felt like I was missing something with my treatments. I started taking Myofascial Release classes, then became interested in treating women’s health issues. I then started taking additional classes in this area.
Kathy with her family
Where did you grow up?
I grew up in the Philadelphia area, specifically Norristown, PA.
What’s your favorite food?
Potato chips
Where did you receive your education?
Univerisity of Pittsburgh
What is your philosophy on continuing education?
I believe it is very important to expand your knowledge base. I take about 2-3 continuing education classes every year.
What conditions do you have experience in treating?
I have treated patients with chronic pain, adhesions, women’s health issues, orthopedic issues, neurological issues, and amputees.
Where is your favorite place to go on vacation?
My favorite location is Sedona, Arizonia. Going camping anywhere is great to me. I love being outside in the fresh air.
What is your favorite part about treating patients?
Kathy treating a Clear Passage patient
I enjoy helping patients get there life back without pain or limitations
What do you hear patients say most often after receiving treatment?
“I can’t believe I am feeling better.”
What three words describes you best?
Intense, Motivated, and Caring
What drives you every day?
Knowing that I can help people
