Larry Wurn, Research Director of Clear Passage Therapies, discusses manual therapy (Wurn Technique) to treat abdominal adhesions and small bowel obstruction without surgery. In the video, a patient discusses her recurring battle with adhesions and bowel obstructions and how Clear Passage Therapies saved her.

Adhesions in abdomen after surgery

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“Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain” by Larry and Belinda Wurn with Richard King, MD is available now at amazon.com (Med-Art Press). Foreword by New York Times best-selling author Christiane Northrup, MD  and endorsed by physicians from Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, and other fine professionals.

Dr. Jacques Moritz, Director of Endoscopy Section and Division of Gynecology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center says, “As a gynecological surgeon I have seen first hand what happens after I operate on patients. As much as I try to prevent adhesions I know that most patients after surgery are going to develop some form of adhesive disease. In the past treatment for adhesions has been even more surgery which caused even more adhesions. Now with the amazing “Clear Passage” technique patients have a safe and effective alternative to surgery. “

According to a large study by Anesthesiology (2007), roughly 32% of women who undergo hysterectomies will experience chronic pelvic pain that lasts for over a year after hysterectomies. Many women also report painful intercourse and sexual dysfunction, such as poor lubrication or decreased desire, after their hysterectomies.

In a study conducted by the  Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, scientists performed second-look surgery on women who reported chronic pain after their hysterectomy. One of their common findings was adhesions. Adhesions are filmy bands of collagen that form as an integral part of the healing process in the body. Adhesions enable the tissues of the body to seal after a hysterectomy. But these adhesions can also bind other organs, tissues, and structures together, causing uncomfortable pain and pulling.

Belinda Wurn, the founder of Clear Passage Therapies, experienced the devastating affects of adhesions herself when she underwent treatment for cervical cancer. A portion of her cervix was removed and she received a grueling regimen of radiation therapy. Although medical intervention saved her life, the surgery and radiation therapy caused adhesions to form. Within a year, Belinda experienced a constant pulling sensation that gradually developed into chronic pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction.

Belinda and her husband, Larry, sought medical help, but all doctors could offer her was a repeat surgery. Belinda and Larry then traveled the world, learning new manual physical therapy techniques to reduce Belinda’s pain. Her pain gradually decreased and she eventually found herself free from pain.

Belinda and Larry decided to utilize their new knowledge and opened Clear Passage Therapies to help women who experienced pain and dysfunction due to adhesions, including women who underwent hysterectomies. You can read the story of a former patient, Katrina, who underwent a partial hysterectomy and later experienced adhesions that blocked her small bowels. If you would like to learn more about our treatment for pain and dysfunction after hysterectomies, please visit our post-surgical pain page.

One aspect I personally love about working with Clear Passage Therapies (CPT) is their continued work and effort towards research and education. The entire CPT team loves to conduct studies, closely follow the progress of patients, and look for ways to improve treatment. Once the CPT team feels that treatment can help or improve a certain condition, we share this news on our website.

Today, a new page was added to our website: C-Section Pain. CPT first began treating c-section pain when women came to the clinic for treatment of secondary infertility (unable to become pregnant after previously conceiving and carrying a child). A large majority of the women had also undergone c-sections and experienced pain at or near their incision sites. Some reported a constant pull near their scar, while others reported persistent pain that started after their c-section and gradually increased.

Our therapists felt that the c-section pain or discomfort these women experienced was tied to their infertility. At CPT, we believe the body functions as a whole; pain and dysfunction in one area is often linked to pain or dysfunction in another area. When our therapists examined the patient’s body, they could feel adhesive patterns near the incision sites, extending down into the uterus. They felt that these adhesions not only caused the woman’s pain, but significantly impaired her fertility. As our therapists worked to reduce the adhesions, the patient reported she no longer experienced pain near their c-section. A few months after treatment, she also became naturally pregnant!

The CPT team began to notice that many women with prior c-sections were reporting decreased pain and improved digestion after treatment for secondary infertility. We continued to follow our patients closely and researched more about how our patients with c-sections could benefit from treatment.  After significant time and work, our therapists can now confidently say they can treat pain and dysfunction associated with c-sections. To celebrate and share the news, the CPT team created a new web page for C-section pain. The CPT team will continue to unveil new web pages over the next month, so keep checking back to see the numerous ways we are researching and developing the field of manual physical therapy.

The 9th right of Dr. Carolyn Demarco’s A Woman’s Bill of Rights states, “I have a right to refuse any drug or surgical treatment.”

In the highly individualized and independent culture of the United States, many people do not have difficulty stating exactly what they want or don’t want. But for women who face chronic pain or infertility, their refusal of drugs or surgical treatment may mean they are out of conventional treatment options. This can be a very scary situation for any woman.

Reese, a former CPT patient, experienced this situation after multiple surgeries for bowel obstructions. Reese learned from her doctor in 2008 that abdominal adhesions had grown back for the 7th time after. She would need another surgery to remove the adhesions that were slowly blocking her intestines. Reese told us, “I did NOT want to live this way, having surgery after surgery just to stay alive.” However, Reese didn’t know what else she could do.

She had previously heard of Clear Passage Therapies (CPT) and contacted us for more information. Belinda Wurn, who founded CPT and has also experienced bowel obstructions, called Reese. After a lengthy conversation, Reese decided to attend treatment. Out therapists worked meticulously to decrease adhesions in her abdomen and free her intestines. After treatment, Reese reported, “I could barely believe how much better I felt. I was no longer near tears in pain with each breath and step I took! I had a total of five bowel movements that night and the next morning. I was beside myself!”

Reese’s full story will be featured in our upcoming book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain, along with the stories of other women who refused drugs or surgery for bowel obstructions, chronic pain, infertility, endometriosis, and many other conditions. Choosing to forego drugs or surgical treatment can be scary, but there are other treatment options available that work. To read an excerpt of a story about a woman who refused surgery to remove a fallopian tube blocked with hydrosalpinx, please see Resolving Hydrosalpinx. If you would like to learn more about our treatment for bowel obstructions, please visit our bowel adhesions page.

Our upcoming book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain, will discuss how manual physical therapy can address a host of problems caused by adhesions. The book is divided into three sections: fertility, sexual dysfunction, and chronic pain. One of our main topics in the chronic pain section is post-surgical pain. In fact, we have so much to say about it that we have devoted an entire chapter to it!

We care deeply about this topic because the conventional cure for post-surgical pain is more surgery! Men and women deserve to know there is a treatment that can free them from an endless cycle of surgeries.

If a patient’s surgery was completed without complications, but the patient still finds themselves in pain after six months, adhesions are the likely culprit. In the post-surgical pain chapter, we discuss how and why adhesions form after surgery. We then explain how adhesions can draw previously mobile structures together, cause inflammation, create tension, and cause pain.

In the chapter, we also share the stories of patients who have had the awful experience of cyclical surgery. One such patient is Ginny, who had a bowel obstruction removed surgically. After the surgery, adhesions quickly formed again, causing more bowel obstructions, severe abdominal pain, and neck and back pain. Ginny told us, “I needed surgery to reduce the adhesions and relieve my pain, but the surgeries would cause more adhesions to form, necessitating more surgeries.” After eight surgeries, Ginny knew she needed to find a non-invasive way to remove adhesions. When she heard about our clinic, she started attending twice a week. Ginny reported, “Before long, I stopped experiencing pain n my bowels, neck and back. Things in life that most people take for granted, but that had been denied to me for so long slowly began to return. I can still remember the first day I was finally able to have a bowel movement without pain or laxatives.”

Our treatment, which focuses on removing adhesions with manual physical therapy techniques, has helped many people like Ginny. Ginny’s full story, along with the stories of 75 former CPT patients, will be featured in our book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain. If you would like to read more about how adhesions may be affecting your health, please visit our adhesions page.

Post-surgical adhesions can cause chronic pain and dysfunction if left untreated. In an upcoming book ‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain,’ researchers examine a non-surgical therapy developed to treat adhesions.

Gainesville, FL (PRWEB ) October 29, 2008 –Surgeries save lives, but they often create glue-like adhesions as the body heals from surgery. Post-surgical adhesions can cause pain and even life-threatening problems, such as bowels that become blocked and lose their function.

In an upcoming book, ‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain,’ researchers examine a non-surgical therapy (Wurn TechniqueÒ) that has decreased or eliminated adhesions in many patients, including abdominal adhesions and post- surgical adhesions.

Many pelvic and abdominal surgeries require repeat surgery – to remove the adhesions that formed from the earlier surgery. Abdominal adhesions occur in over 90% of patients after major abdominal surgery and pelvic adhesions occur in 55-100% of women who undergo pelvic surgery, according to a study in the journal ‘Digestive Surgery’ (2001). In a large study published in ‘Lancet’ (1999), over a third of patients who underwent major abdominal or pelvic surgery were re-hospitalized at least twice to treat adhesion related conditions.

The Wurn Technique® was created to treat the adhesions physical therapist Belinda Wurn developed after pelvic surgery. “I had double-over pain,” she said. “I could not work or stand up straight. It hurt to sit and even to breathe; the pain was always there.”

Wurn did not want to undergo a repeat surgery, knowing that more adhesions would likely form. Her husband, Larry Wurn, joined her in a search for a ‘hands-on’ answer. “We basically searched the world for an answer,” he said. “Each new piece we learned brought us that much closer to a cure.”

The Wurns have now published several studies on the manual physical therapy in peer-reviewed medical journals.

“Our biggest surprise was the variety of conditions that responded well to the therapy,” Belinda said. “Post-surgical pain patients responded well – then, we started seeing improvements in infertile women. When the therapy opened blocked fallopian tubes, we named our clinic Clear Passage Therapies.”

Studies in ‘Medscape General Medicine’ (2004) and ‘Fertility and Sterility’ (2006) showed that the therapy improved fertility and decreased or eliminated endometriosis and intercourse pain in most participants. In a study from ‘Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine’ (2008) the therapy opened blocked fallopian tubes in women who had been diagnosed infertile. Most had natural pregnancies after their tube(s) opened, and several had second natural pregnancies – indicating that the results of therapy lasted for years for some women.

‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain’ will be published this winter; Larry and Belinda Wurn with research gynecologist, Richard King, MD, are co-authoring the book. The table of contents is available at the Clear Passage Therapies blog to spur discussions with their readers on important topics. A free e-book excerpt from the book will be available soon at Clear Passage Therapies.