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Share Hope on Twitter for Infertility Awareness

April 18, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

For parents, each birth is a fairy tale. For millions of infertile women, it’s a hope that sustains them each month, as they search for answers to make their dream of creating a family into a reality.

To honor National Infertility Awareness Week, April 24 to 30, Clear Passage Physical Therapy is hosting the Share Hope campaign as an effort to raise awareness for the infertility community and to connect people in a cause that affects more than 10 million US couples.

Twitter users are invited to  share their infertility stories in less than 140 characters, accompanying their posts with the hash tag “#sharehope.”  Each day, the most heart-warming or humorous tweet will be awarded a free book from a recognized fertility professional and an entry to win 20 hours of hands-on infertility treatment at Clear Passage Physical Therapy, a grand prize worth $5,200.


The winner will be chosen on May 1. In addition to the free hands-on infertility treatment, she will receive a free copy of “Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain” by Belinda Wurn, PT and Larry Wurn, LMT, founders of the Wurn Technique® and co-directors of Clear Passage Physical Therapy, a national network of clinics treating female infertility and pain.


The week-long campaign features book copies from experts including Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Lissa Rankin, Toni Weschler, Kristen Magnacca , and many more.


There are many causes of female infertility, from mechanical problems such as adhesions or blocked fallopian tubes, to hormonal conditions.  Each patient is different, and no single protocol is right for every case. Many have spent years searching for the answer in their own personal quest, feeling alone and isolated in their endeavor.

Watch the Share Hope Video on YouTube.

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Fertility Treatment – The Natural Way

April 11, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

Fertility Treatment Options

Couples having trouble getting pregnant suffer frustration, even shame. Experts estimate that about 20 percent of couples will suffer from infertility, temporarily or permanently. The incidence of infertility is about equally divided between women and men. The causes of infertility are both physical and psychological. But, happily, a number of effective fertility treatments are available.

Nature’s Way

Doctors recommend that women try at least one year to get pregnant naturally before seeking help. Timing and observation are the keys. Fertility experts say that to get pregnant, women should have sex two or three days before they ovulate, their most fertile days.

So-called alternative fertility treatments may help some women. Claims have been made for fertility herbs, oils, massages and diets. More research needs to be done on these types of fertility treatments. But two alternative fertility treatments that have been researched and proven effective are acupuncture and a particular physical therapy.

When combined with conventional medical fertility treatments, acupuncture has been shown to be beneficial. It’s believed that acupuncture reduces stress hormones in the body, which interfere with conception.

A unique physical therapy procedure called the Wurn technique has proved highly effective. This hands-on fertility treatment breaks down adhesions, or scarring, one of the leading causes of infertility. This fertility treatment uses pelvic physical therapy to decrease adhesions and increase the function of reproductive organs and glands.

Many women choose natural or alternative fertility treatments because no surgery or drugs are involved. Although alternative therapies are gaining favor, most women still choose conventional fertility treatments, which, in general, do involve surgery or drugs.

Medical Interventions

Surgery to repair part of the reproductive system—in either women or men—helps in some cases. For example, surgery is used to remove fibroid tumors from the uterus or adhesions from the fallopian tubes, both common causes of infertility.

The most common fertility treatment is the administration of fertility drugs to women, either through pills or through injections. Fertility drugs help balance a woman’s hormone levels and help her body ovulate. Some fertility drugs increase the number of eggs a woman produces. This can lead to multiple births—twins, triplets or more.

Another, more advanced, fertility treatment goes under the broad category of assisted reproductive technology (ART). ART differs from intrauterine insemination (IUI), or artificial insemination, in which only the sperm is handled. With IUI, the donor sperm is inserted into the woman’s uterus through a catheter. IUI is an in-office procedure. With ART, both sperm and eggs are manipulated.

In ART procedures, eggs from a woman’s ovaries are surgically removed, combined with sperm in a laboratory and returned to the woman’s body. In vitro fertilization is the best-known ART procedure. Although effective, ART poses some potential problems, including low birth weight, premature delivery and multiple births.

Given the range of fertility treatments available, women need to work with their primary care provider or obstetrician/gynecologist to find just the right fertility treatment to help them become pregnant.

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Turning Back the Clock

March 15, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

It seems we could all use a bit more time these days. More time to meet a friend for coffee, more time to dust off that treadmill you bought with the best intentions, more time to enjoy the little things, and perhaps more time to have a baby.  As the hands of a woman’s biological clock run their steady marathon in clockwise circles, we often try desperately to turn those hands in the opposite direction.

Our bodies, much like our memories, have a complex system of remembering what has happened in the past. With each healing event our bodies endure, whether a fall from a bike or a trip to the hospital, a detailed account is written of these traumas in the form of adhesions.

Adhesions form as the body’s response to trauma. These traumas can be from a fall, surgery, infection, or inflammation. As these thick fibrous bands of adhesions form, they attach to nearby tissues and organs. These attachments can cause restrictions that are often the underlying cause of infertility. These mechanical fertility issues include blocked fallopian tubes, hydrosalpinx, unexplained infertility, high FSH, and endometriosis.

The therapists at Clear Passage Physical Therapy are experts when it comes to treating these powerful adhesive restrictions throughout the body.  The therapists use their hands to address the adhesions that restrict normal function of the delicate female reproductive system.  The therapy, in essence, turns back the clock by freeing the body from restrictions from past healing events.

To learn more about this therapy, visit www.clearpassage.com.


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‘Put an End to Endo’ during Endometriosis Awareness Month

February 28, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

Clear Passage Physical Therapy highlights March as Endometriosis Awareness Month with a compelling incentive to help ‘Put an End to Endo’.

Clear Passage will giveaway over $7,000 worth in prizes this month to focus on the devastating effects of endometriosis. These prizes will include donations to endometriosis support groups selected by the top two winners of the ‘Put an End to Endo’ Giveaway. The grand prize winner will also receive a free 20 hour program of hands-on physical therapy, known as the Wurn Technique®, to treat endometriosis pain and/or infertility.

Previous Clear Passage patient, Jasmine exclaimed, “My primary goal for therapy at Clear Passage was to become pregnant and one week after treatment, I was! I was also blessed to no longer experience abdominal pain.”

The contest aims to increase awareness virally throughClear Passage’s Facebook page. Women with endometriosis can submit a photo to the company’s Facebook Page. They will gather votes and raise awareness by receiving “likes” from their family and friends. The three contestants with the most “likes” by midnight, March 31st will receive prizes, to be announced on the site the following week.

Many women with endometriosis feel alone in their struggle. Building a dedicated support system of loved ones to share in the struggle can make a world of difference for those who suffer from the pain or infertility of the condition.

Over 176 million women suffer from endometriosis globally. Many experience a loss of vitality as they live in a constant state of pain or fatigue. In addition to causing pain and energy loss, endometriosis has been cited as major cause of female infertility. Women diagnosed with endometriosis often find themselves unable to work for days at a time, and unable to make a social schedule or plan a vacation with their partner, due to fear that debilitating pain will strike and abort their plans.

Clear Passage Research Director, Larry Wurn says, “Scientists are making inroads into non-surgical, drug-free methods to treat endometriosis. We are honored to be able to help these women by providing both physical therapy and research.”

Treatment for endometriosis pain often consists of medication or a surgical procedure to remove the endometrial tissue throughout the pelvis. Unfortunately, some studies have shown that the condition can return at surgical sites, sometimes worse than before surgery. The Wurn Technique®, a physical therapy treatment provided at Clear Passage clinics, provides women with a safe and natural treatment for pain and infertility.

“Prior to treatment at Clear Passage, I suffered from frequent endometriosis pain. Clear Passage gave me my life back!” said previous patient Madison.

Clear Passage Physical Therapy is dedicated to educating and empowering their patients and offering natural relief for the millions of women who suffer from endometriosis. With the support of Facebook and the endometriosis community, they will do their part to ‘Put an End to Endo.’

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Infertility’s Undiagnosed Cause and a Possible Cure

January 12, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

On January 17, 2011, Lifetime TV’s, The Balancing Act, will examine the controversial book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain and its claims that a hands-on physical therapy helped hundreds of women overcome infertility. Hostess Danielle Knox will discuss this breakthrough fertility treatment, called the Wurn Technique®, with Larry and Belinda Wurn, book authors and developers of the therapy. The book contains dozens of stories from infertile women who became pregnant naturally after receiving the hands-on technique. This all-natural method uses neither surgery nor drugs, and also relieves pelvic and intercourse pain that plague millions of women, the authors said. Knox will examine their book as part of Lifetime’s author interview series.

In peer-reviewed medical journals, the therapy has shown promising results increasing fertility and opening blocked fallopian tubes. Doctors from Harvard, Columbia and Northwestern medical schools have touted the book and therapy as a valuable resource for consumers and medical professionals.

During the interview, the Wurns share the story that led to the discovery of their innovative non-surgical treatment for infertility. They found adhesions were a common factor in their infertile patients, and developed this method to decrease them. “Adhesions form naturally when the body heals from surgery, trauma, or infection,” Belinda said. “They can act like glue, binding organs and tissues together, and causing pain and infertility.” Because they are difficult for physicians to diagnose and treat, many women are unaware that adhesions can contribute to blocked fallopian tubes, infertility, endometriosis, pelvic and tailbone pain – and even abnormal hormone levels.

The book contains study results and stories from more than 80 patients about success overcoming pain and years of infertility following treatment at the Wurns’ “Clear Passage” clinics. “You succeeded in breaking adhesions that blocked my fallopian tubes. The tests confirm this and I was able to achieve a pregnancy because of your remarkable work, “said Clear Passage patient Melissa Gonzales.

“We were initially surprised that the therapy could make such dramatic improvements without drugs or surgery,” Larry Wurn said. “The success of Clear Passage continues through the changed lives of countless women who visit our clinics from all over the world.”

The Wurns began to develop their work in the 1980s, after Belinda contracted cancer. The surgery that saved her life seemed like a Godsend at the time. But a year later, the adhesions that formed after the surgery left her in debilitating pain. Desperate to find a solutions to the pain Belinda and her husband, Larry Wurn, began exploring non-surgical treatments to give Belinda her life back.

“My doctors said there was nothing they could do about the pain,” Belinda said. “At 30 years old and newly married, I could not accept that I would be crippled by pain and adhesions for the rest of my life. We had no idea that the therapy we developed to treat me would help so many infertile women.”

See full article here: Infertility’s Undiagnosed Cause and a Possible Cure

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