New York, NY, March 21, 2006/PRNewswire/ –On April 5th, RESOLVE, the National Infertility Association, Clear Passage Therapies®, and Turning Point Acupuncture will co-sponsor an event in New York City to inform tri-state area residents about two scientifically validated therapies to treat infertility and improve IVF success rates.

Complementary therapies are of special interest to many women over age 35 and those who have not had success with traditional medical techniques alone.

Clear Passage Therapies® has developed a manual physical therapy treatment that was found effective in scientific studies to improve natural fertility and  IVF success rates. It has been successfully used by hundreds of women as a stand-alone treatment or an adjunct to traditional medicine.  According to a recent study published by WebMD’s Medscape General Medicine, women who received the therapy prior to undergoing IVF had a 67% pregnancy rate, much higher than the 41% national average used as a control (P < .001). A separate study showed a 71% natural pregnancy rate after therapy for women who did not undergo in vitro fertilization. Women averaged 5 years of infertility prior to therapy, in both studies.

Traditional Chinese Medicine, and acupuncture in particular, has been used for millennia to treat infertility.  More recently, acupuncture has been recognized as an important tool for couples struggling to conceive in the West.  Results from a German study indicate that adding acupuncture to the treatment protocol of IVF patients greatly enhances their chances of becoming pregnant.  The researchers reported that clinical pregnancies were observed in 34 (42.5%) of the acupuncture patients, compared with 21 (26.3%) of the control patients (P=.03).

Representatives from Clear Passage Therapies and Turning Point Acupuncture will discuss how patients and physicians are integrating the use of these therapies with traditional fertility treatments, and the scientific studies behind them. In addition, attendees will learn how the therapies work, contraindications, and how to make effective and appropriate choices about therapy.

Event Details:
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Turning Point Acupuncture
1841 Broadway, 5th Floor
(at 60th St.)
New York, NY

Space is limited so please call to register at least 24 hours in advance of the session: 212.489.5038

The event is free for RESOLVE members and $10 for non-members.

Newport Beach, CA, July 25, 2005/PRNewswire/ – A new infertility treatment, shown to be effective without drugs or surgery, is now available in the Western US. The therapy, known as the Wurn Technique® (patent pending), is a manual physical therapy treatment, similar to massage.

Previously available only in the eastern US, the therapy has been used as an adjunct to traditional infertility treatments for several years. It is now being offered at Clear Passage Therapies® in Orange County, California, between Los Angeles and San Diego. The new clinic will provide a valuable service for the nearly one in six couples throughout the Southwest who are struggling with infertility.

Medical studies published in Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health (6/04) show the therapy significantly increased pregnancy rates for women diagnosed infertile. Study participants who received therapy before undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) saw pregnancy rates climb to 67%, far above the 41% national average for IVF, as reported by the US Centers for Disease Control. “I am always looking for new approaches to benefit my patients’goals of becoming parents,” said Brian Acacio, MD, Medical Director of Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Los Angeles. “This preliminary research shows improvement with this therapy. While additional studies need to be conducted, this is very exciting.”

In a related study, 71% of infertile women conceived naturally after therapy. “The therapy appears to facilitate fertility in women with a wide array of unexplained or adhesion-related infertility,” said Richard King, MD, an independent gynecologist and research physician. “Prior to receiving the therapy, patients in the natural therapy study reported infection, surgery, endometriosis, hormonal issues, unexplained infertility, and even blocked fallopian tubes. Most became pregnant naturally and delivered babies following therapy.” Women in both studies averaged 5 years of infertility.

No drugs or surgery are used with the therapy and side effects are generally positive. A third study published in Medscape (12/04) reported the therapy’s effectiveness in reducing intercourse pain and increasing sexual function in areas measurable by science, including desire [libido] and orgasm.

“I am pleased to offer this new therapy on the West Coast,” said Mary Cox, PT, Director of the California fertility clinic in Orange County. “I look forward to working with women and their physicians to resolve pelvic pain, and to improve success rates for infertility patients.”

Clear Passage is accepting patients for treatment and offering phone consultations (at no charge) toll free at 1-866-BABYHERE (1-866-222-9437). Clinics are currently located in Florida, Iowa, and California. More information is available at www.clearpassage.com.

DES MOINES, IA, June 6, 2005/PRNewswire/ — A new infertility treatment, shown to be effective without drugs or surgery, is now available in the Midwest. The therapy, known as the Wurn Technique® (patent pending), is a combination of manual physical therapy and massage techniques.

Women from across the country have successfully used this therapy as an alternative and adjunct to traditional infertility treatments for several years. It is now available to women and their physicians at Clear Passage Therapies® in Des Moines, Iowa. The clinic will provide a valuable service for the nearly one in six couples throughout the Midwest struggling with infertility.

Medical studies published in Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health (6/04) show this therapy significantly increased pregnancy rates for women diagnosed infertile. Study participants who received therapy before undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) saw pregnancy rates climb to 67%, far above the 41% national average for IVF, as reported by the CDC. Successes included women over 40 and several women who had failed to become pregnant in two or more IVF transfers before therapy.

In a related study, 71% of infertile women conceived naturally after therapy. Women in both studies averaged 5 years of infertility.

“The therapy appears to improve fertility in women with a wide array of unexplained or adhesion-related infertility,” said Richard King, MD, an independent gynecologist and research physician. “Successful study participants had histories including prior infection, surgery, endometriosis, hormonal issues, unexplained infertility, and even blocked fallopian tubes.”

No drugs or surgery are used with this therapy and side effects are generally positive. A third study published in Medscape (12/04) reported the therapy’s effectiveness in reducing painful intercourse and increasing sexual function, including desire (libido), and orgasm intensity and frequency.

Victoria Keinert, MPT, and Jean Nollen, PT are Founding Directors of the new Midwest fertility clinic in Des Moines. “We are pleased to offer this exciting and effective treatment option to Midwest women who are dealing with pelvic pain and infertility,” said Nollen.

Clear Passage is accepting patients for treatment and is offering phone consultations (at no charge) toll free at 1-866-BABYHERE (1-866-222-9437). Clinics are currently located in Gainesville, Florida and Des Moines, Iowa, with plans to open in Southern California later this year.    More information is available at www.clearpassage.com.

GAINESVILLE, Fla., Dec. 14, 2004 /PRNewswire/ — In a study published today in Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health, researchers reported that a manual physical therapy technique is highly effective in increasing orgasm intensity and frequency and reducing painful intercourse in women.

The therapy, known as the Wurn Technique(R), is a new, patent-protected series of manual physical therapy and massage techniques designed to reduce adhesions and mechanical factors that cause pain or dysfunction. No drugs or surgery are involved.

Study participants were 23 women who reported painful intercourse and/or difficulty or inability to orgasm. According to the study, the therapy significantly increased orgasm in 56% and reduced intercourse pain in 96% of the women. Statistically significant improvements were noted in all six major areas (desire [libido], arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain) on a standardized test of female sexual dysfunction.

Co-developer Belinda Wurn, PT, says, “Adhesions can form anywhere in the female reproductive tract, decreasing sensation and causing pain. Our therapy frees the tissues from these adhesive constraints, restoring normal function and allowing women to return to a healthy sex life.”

The study is the third to be published on the Wurn Technique(R) in Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health this year. Two prior studies, published in June, reported the therapy’s effectiveness in helping infertile women to conceive. In the first study, natural pregnancy occurred in 71% of infertile women within one year of treatment. The second study showed that women who used the therapy within 15 months prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF) increased their chances for IVF pregnancy by 63%.

CONTACT: Larry Wurn, Clear Passage Therapies, Inc. 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com

GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 27, 2004 /PRNewswire/ — Struggling with years of infertility can be stressful and heartbreaking. But the battle is over for three friends who credit their success to a new “fertility massage.”

Alexandra, Angie, and Cathleen all attribute their children to a patent protected massage therapy called the Wurn Technique(R). The therapy, which uses no drugs or surgery, appears to decrease adhesions and scar tissue that cause half of all female infertility, according to physical therapist Belinda Wurn, co-developer.

“We use our hands to find adhered areas in and around a woman’s reproductive organs,” said Belinda Wurn. “We apply a sophisticated ‘massage’ to free the reproductive tissues from adhesions that prevent proper function and cause infertility.”

The therapy’s effectiveness was recently chronicled in Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health. The peer-reviewed journal reported 71% of infertile women conceived within one year after the treatments without any further medical or surgical intervention. A second study followed women who received in vitro fertilization (IVF) transfer after therapy. Two-thirds (67%) of the transfers resulted in pregnancy, beating the 41% national average reported by the CDC. But for the three friends, pregnancy came without surgical intervention.

Alexandra was the first of the three friends to discover the therapy’s success. With one blocked fallopian tube, and the other tube scarred and adhered from a C-section, her physician told her it was unlikely she would ever conceive again. Yet, she has had two children since therapy and is now pregnant again. “I recommended the therapy to my friend Angie who had been struggling with infertility for so long,” Alexandra said.

Angie was infertile for five years, with a history of endometriosis, miscarriages and seven failed intrauterine inseminations (IUI). But after receiving the new therapy, Angie also conceived naturally, and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. “I know that the therapy is what my body needed to be successful,” Angie said. She called her friend, Cathleen.

Cathleen was given a 5% chance of ever becoming pregnant, even with IVF. Her tubes were scarred and her fimbriae were clubbed with adhesions. After five years of infertility, and four IVF attempts, she was crushed. She had never had a single pregnancy. “Angie bugged me to try the therapy so I finally went. A few months after therapy, to my utter amazement, I was pregnant,” Cathleen said. Cathleen also gave birth to a little girl.

“We are very excited about the results we are seeing with our therapy. At least 60 babies have already been born or are presently expected by women who were diagnosed infertile,” said massage therapist Larry Wurn, co-developer of the Wurn Technique and Director of Clinical Studies at Clear Passage Therapies.

GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 28, 2004 /PRNewswire/ — A unique new massage and physical therapy technique greatly increased pregnancy rates in infertile women, according to two studies reported in the June 18, 2004 issue of Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health. The researchers reported that the Wurn Technique(R) (patent pending) is highly effective at increasing fertility in both natural conception and in vitro fertilization (IVF). The therapy uses neither drugs nor surgery.

The natural fertility study reported a 71% (10/14) pregnancy success rate within one year of receiving the new treatment. Nine of the ten women (90%) who conceived had a full-term delivery.

A second study found that therapy significantly increased clinical pregnancy rates when performed within 15 months before in vitro fertilization (IVF). Two-thirds (67%) of women who received the non-surgical therapy became pregnant with their next IVF transfer, versus the 41% national average. The study also showed a 57% pregnancy rate among women aged 41 or older. The average duration of infertility for patients in both studies was five years.

“The therapy appears to improve fertility in women with a wide array of unexplained or adhesion-related infertility,” said co-author Richard King, MD, an independent gynecologist and research physician. “Many of the subjects had histories including prior infection, inflammation, surgery or trauma.”

In the pre-IVF study, 19 of 25 women (76%) reported pregnancy and 15 (60%) gave birth or are still pregnant. The study compared the rate of pregnancy per embryo transfer of fresh, non-donor eggs with the national age-adjusted averages reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Clinical pregnancies were documented in 22 of 33 embryo transfers (67%), a highly statistically significant difference in favor of the women who received the therapy prior to transfer.

“None of the patients in either study reported any observable complications or adverse side effects,” said Belinda Wurn, physical therapist, who developed the technique with her husband, massage therapist Larry Wurn. “In fact, nearly all patients reported decreased pain, and anecdotal evidence suggests increased sexual arousal, following therapy.”

“We feel this work will be a major adjunct to regular gynecologic care and will increase success rates for fertility physicians worldwide,” Larry Wurn said.

Media contact: Larry Wurn, 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com