Larry Wurn, Research Director of Clear Passage Therapies, discusses manual physical therapy (Wurn Technique) to treat internal adhesions and scarring.

Adhesions naturally form as part of the healing process after an infection, inflammation, surgery, or trauma.  Unfortunately, the body has no natural way to dissolve adhesions. As such, they can cause pain or dysfunction, including nearly half of all female infertility.

Clear Passage Physical Therapy is designed to decrease internal adhesions, reduce pain, and increase function, naturally and permanently.

In a recent study, “Use of nonmedical treatments by infertility patients” in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, the majority (62%) of study participants indicated using some type of alternative therapy to complement their medical treatments. The researchers, physicians from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, developed the study “to discover the extent to which infertility patients use alternatives to traditional medical treatment and to identify factors that may promote patients to use them.” Abstract available at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19691256?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=4

The authors of ‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain’ prepare for their September 15 book publication and announce the launch of their social media and news site on adhesions, infertility, sexual dysfunction, and pain.

Gainesville, FL, September 11, 2009 – ‘Miracle Moms’ co-authors Larry and Belinda Wurn, recognized leaders in non-surgical treatment for female infertility and chronic adhesion pain, launch www.miraclemoms.net. This new site is geared towards news and online social connections about subjects in their upcoming book, ‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain: A Remarkable Journey in Hands-on Healing for Infertility, Pain, Sexual Dysfunction, and Adhesions.’

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated six million women in the US experience infertility, and that number is growing. Ovulation problems account for a big part of female infertility; warning signs include irregular or absent menstruation. Adhesions and blocked fallopian tubes are also major causes of infertility. Fallopian tubes can become blocked by adhesions after surgery, trauma, infection, or inflammation.

Adhesions can form whenever the body heals from infection, inflammation, surgery or trauma. Pelvic and abdominal surgeries such as laparoscopy, C-section or D&C are primary causes of adhesions. Traumas such as auto accident, fall, or abuse also cause adhesions. Infection and inflammation (endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, or STD) can all cause adhesions to form in the bowel or female reproductive organs. As adhesions grow, they can restrict normal body function and cause pain and dysfunction, including nearly half of all female infertility.

Larry Wurn, Co-Author of Miracle Moms

“We have already featured three ebooks at miraclemoms.net and plan to offer more,” says Co-Author Larry Wurn, LMT and Director of Clinical Studies of Clear Passage Therapies. “These ebooks are free to our website guests and cover chapters directly from Miracle Moms on blocked fallopian tubes, endometriosis pain, endometriosis and infertility, and coming soon, surgical and bowel adhesions.”

‘NY Times’ best selling author Christine Northrup, MD wrote the Foreword. Physicians and authors from Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern medical school, and more join her in praising ‘Miracle Moms’.

“Your work is a Godsend,” says Dr. Northrup. “A heartfelt thank you for providing women all over the world with such a safe, natural, and effective therapy to enhance fertility and pelvic health.”

Co-Author Belinda Wurn, PT, Clinical Director of Clear Passage Therapies says, “We hope miraclemoms.net will become a resource for people to learn and connect on topics focused on infertility, adhesions, and related health issues.”

‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain’ will be published September 15, 2009 and available online and in bookstores for $29.95. A special authors’ online discount will be available for guests of www.miraclemoms.net for $24.95.

‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain: A Remarkable Journey in Hands-on Healing for Infertility, Pain, Sexual Dysfunction, and Adhesions’ by Belinda Wurn PT, Larry Wurn, LMT with Richard King, MD. Original edition. 6 x 9” with 704 pages, 110 illustrations.  ISBN 9811868.  $29.95.

Miracle Moms available September 15, 2009 (Med-Art Press)

Gainesville, FL (PRWEB) September 2, 2009 — Adhesions are a leading cause of female infertility, pain, and sexual dysfunction. Many women have avoided surgery for these conditions by using a ‘hands-on’ physical therapy, with proven scientific results.

In the upcoming book ‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain,’ research gynecologist Richard King, MD joins Belinda and Larry Wurn to share a 20-year medical journey examining a physical therapy treatment to help patients achieve goals of pregnancy, better sex, and a pain-free life. Born from Belinda’s debilitating adhesion pain after cancer surgery, ‘Miracle Moms’ is a pioneering work.

Endorsed by Christiane Northrup, MD, ‘New York Times’ best-selling author (who wrote the Foreword) and physicians from Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, and other fine medical schools, this book promises to usher in a women’s health revolution for the 21st century.

“A heartfelt thank you for providing women all over the world with such a safe, natural, and effective therapy to enhance fertility and pelvic health. Your work is a Godsend,” says Dr. Northrup.

With over 700 pages, ‘Miracle Moms’ is an elegant combination of more than 80 heart-felt patient narratives, and 20 years of theory, development, treatment, and published scientific research. More than 100 original illustrations provide a visual journey into the body and help explain how adhesions cause problems for so many patients and doctors, and why the unique manual therapy (Wurn Technique) was successful for so many women who were diagnosed “beyond help” by their physicians – until this therapy fulfilled their dreams.

The authors have published studies in some of the most respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the US. Studies in ‘Medscape General Medicine’ (2004) and ‘Fertility and Sterility’ (2006) showed that the therapy improved female fertility and decreased or eliminated endometriosis pain and intercourse pain in most participants. A major study in ‘Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine’ (2008) showed that the therapy opened totally blocked fallopian tubes in women who had been diagnosed infertile – a feat previously thought impossible. Most had natural pregnancies after their tube(s) opened. The therapy also provides hope for people with post-surgical pain and life-threatening bowel obstructions – common occurrences after surgery.

‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain’ will be published September 15, 2009 and available in bookstores for $29.95. www.miraclemoms.net 

‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain: A Remarkable Journey in Hands-on Healing for Infertility, Pain,
Sexual Dysfunction, and Adhesions’ by Belinda Wurn PT, Larry Wurn, LMT with Richard King, MD.
Original edition. 6 x 9” with 704 pages, 110 illustrations.  ISBN 9811868.  $29.95.

Submitted by Teresa Belinski as part of the summer educational article series*

You know how some people just know certain things?  For example, they just know that they will marry that certain somebody, or they just know that they’ll get that certain job or, mine and every other infertile woman’s favorite, they just know that they are pregnant.  Puh-lease.  I wouldn’t know if I was pregnant if the stork itself landed on my head and pooped out a positive home pregnancy test.  I feel like I should know though, I mean I’ve been at this since 2001.  I’m basically an expert when it comes to knowing why my boobs hurt or why I feel nauseous at that moment and I’ve peed on about 5 million sticks since I first started trying to get knocked up.  Oh how I wish I could just know that I was pregnant and call it good for the following 9 months. 

I, on the other hand, just knew that I would have a hard time conceiving and keeping a baby.  My friends all knew they’d be fertile myrtles and I knew I’d be a barren Bessie.  They were right, but heck so was I.  I tried for almost 2 years without any luck at all.  We are all told to wait at least a year before going into the doctor and throwing an “I’m not pregnant YET” fit.  What a waste of a year.  You could’ve been pregnant 11 months ago!  How is it that everyone else around you gets pregnant the second they start to “try,” yet it’s taken you some actual time?  It’s because 9 times out of 10, there is something wrong.  So fudge the truth a little and tell your doctor that heck, yes, you’ve been trying for a year.  The reason I say this is because I went in, got an endometrial biopsy, and was immediately diagnosed with a luteal phase defect.  I was put on 50mg of Clomid and BAM! conceived my now 5 year old twins the very next month. I now know that if I would’ve have been more aware of my body and had learned more about how things worked (or didn’t work in my case) I could have diagnosed myself without going through the pain of a biopsy.  Hindsight is always 20/20.

My doctor told me that the chances of me ever conceiving on my own were slim to none and if I ever did I would definitely miscarry.  Wow, thanks ovaries and uterus.  I thought nothing more of it because I had my little perfect boy and little perfect girl. I didn’t need any more.

I didn’t count on getting a divorce and then remarrying somebody that didn’t have kids of their own and wanted one or two. I was pretty nonchalant about the whole thing, foolishly thinking that another round of Clomid would do the trick as soon as I was ready. The thing is I got pregnant on my very own and almost keeled over from complete shock.  Before you begin hating me though for not truly being infertile, please remember what my doctor had said.  I miscarried at 6 weeks and 2 days.  It was the most devastating time of my life and still affects me greatly.  Apparently we all need a little hormone called progesterone to make a pregnancy work.  I lack that hormone greatly and my doctor got me all jumbled up in “the system” because of my name change.  Long story there, but the quick moral is making your doctor do their job or you could regret it literally for the rest of your life.

Here I sit, almost a year since my miscarriage, wondering what it’s gonna take this time to get pregnant.  I rock a huge sailor heart tattoo on my left arm with all 3 of my kid’s names and I’ve been on 3 rounds of Clomid since miscarrying.  My husband has been diagnosed with only 8% morphology.  Not good.  Out of all the people in the entire world, these two infertiles were drawn to each other.  I visited a reproductive endocrinologist and got the whole spiel of doing 3 IUI’s and 3 more rounds of Clomid and if those didn’t work we’d move onto IVF.  Nothing I didn’t already know.  Maybe you can relate when I say, we definitely don’t roll around in money and laugh because our bank account is blowin up.  

So I opted for a more natural method.  Everybody is going more natural these days; it’s the cool thing to do right?  I just recently started Creighton charting. It’s a fairly unknown system that definitely should be well known.  They combine detailed fertility charting with Natural Procreative Technology to diagnose and actually treat infertility.  Yes I said treat.  It’s their belief and now mine that most doctors are just trained to mask our infertility with things like in vitro fertilization and that infertility is a disease as real as any other disease out there.  The use of Creighton and NaPro technology in infertile couples has shown up to an 80% success rate.  The use of IVF in infertile couples has only shown a 21-27% success rate.  Did your jaw just drop wide open?  Creighton teaches you how to recognize your fertility or lack there of.   I literally never, ever thought I got any kind of cervical mucus before I started this.  I thought I was a mutant of some sorts because my friends were boasting about their 6 inch strings of boogers they’d get once a month.  I now know what they are talking about and have made up a cool little “I have cervical mucus” dance.  It’s thrilling to know that my body is working in at least one area.  My Creighton doctor will do a complete hormone workup after I get a good solid 2 months of charting done and will also give me the magical progesterone that my body oh so desires and hopefully soon I will get to pee on another stick.  This time though I hope to frame that stick rather than stomp on it in another insane infertile rage. 

Author: Teresa Belinski is a mother of 5 year old boy/girl twins and loves to talk about anything and everything.  If you ever run into her be prepared to talk about your whole life story and also learn about hers.  Nothing is sacred.  Visit her at www.teresabelinski.blogspot.com aka Keepin’ a Close Watch on This Heart of Mine.

*This post was submitted by a third party as part of a summer educational article series. The comments expressed here in this post are the personal opinions of the original author, and do not necessarily state the views or opinions of Clear Passage Therapies, Inc. 

Information contained on this blog is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. You should not use the information on this blog for diagnosing or treating a medical or health condition. You should consult a physician in all matters regarding your health, and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

By Jackie

When our blog first started in fall of 2009, I wrote a post entitled 8 Steps to Decide if Our Treatment is Right for You. While looking back over that post recently, I realized there was much more helpful information I could provide. There was so much, in fact, that I expanded it to 16 steps and packed this post full with relevant articles and links.

Whether you are trying to conceive or to find your way out of pain, I know it is difficult to choose a treatment option. The amount of choices can be overwhelming and it’s hard to know if a treatment is viable or if it will work for you. The 16 steps below are designed to help you learn more about us, our treatment, and decide if our treatment is right for you:

1. Understand the foundation of our treatment: Adhesions. Adhesions are collagenous cross-links that form whenever you heal; they are what make up scar tissue. To learn more about how adhesions form and impair fertility, read our adhesions and fertility page or our blog post on How Adhesions Form and Impair Fertility in Women.
2. Review your medical and personal history to see if you have experienced events that cause adhesion formation. Have you had an infection, inflammation, surgery, fall, car accident, or other event that causes adhesion formation? You can learn more about adhesions in your body by reading How do You Recognize Adhesions in Your Body? But don’t just take it from us! Check-out this article by Conceive that helps you determine if your body might have scar tissue that prevents you from getting pregnant.
3. Explore how we address specific infertility conditions. If you are experiencing a particular type of infertility, you can read our pages specifically devoted to blocked fallopian tubes, advanced age, unexplained infertility, secondary infertility, and more. Unsure about what category you fall into? Try starting with our page that broadly discusses our treatment for female infertility.
4. Learn how we started. How a treatment is created often says a great deal about the intent of its practitioners and the treatment itself. Learn about how Clear Passage started here.
5. Discover our Treatment Philosophy. Our treatment philosophy varies greatly from what you may have experienced in the past. We believe in the importance of patient participation and intuition. To see if your expectations of health care align with our treatment philosophy, click here.
6. Watch our video. If you are more of a visual learner, then our video is perfect for you. With visual explanations, patient interviews, and staff commentary, our video will help you learn more about us and our treatment.
7. Read our patient testimonials. We have numerous stories and quotes from women who have struggled with many different types of infertility on our patient testimonial page. You can also search our blog for stories by women with different conditions. Some of our personal favorites include “Naturalist” Finds Success after Hormonal Infertility and Patient Highlight: Overcoming Infertility due to Endometriosis.
8. Review our medical studies. See our medical studies page to read seven medical studies and abstracts that evaluate the success of our work. If you are wondering, “How many patients does this treatment actually help?” then our medical studies are a great place to find that answer!
9. Enjoy a chapter of our new book. Our new book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain, contains over 19 chapters and 700 pages of educational material. Each chapter contains a thorough explanation of our therapy, patient stories, and informative images. You can read the table of contents and then email us and request a copy of an upcoming chapter.
10. Discover our newsletters. Every quarter we release a newsletter filled with patient stories, explanations of our treatment, relevant articles, free e-chapters from our book, and much more. You can view our previous newsletters here and sign up to receive upcoming issues.
11. Request more information. Is there more you would like to learn about? Email us and we will gladly mail you a guide to services and other helpful information.
12. Ask our Experts. Have a specific question you would like answered by Belinda and Larry Wurn, the founders of CPT? Visit our Ask the Experts page and post your question.
13. Give us a call! Want to know more about our treatment or statistics in an actual conversation? Call our staff at 352-336-1433. Our administrative staff can give you basic information about our treatment. If you want to understand how our treatment can specifically help you, move on to the next step.
14. Speak with one of our physical therapists for free. After filling out a medical questionnaire online, you can schedule a free consultation with one of our therapists. Our therapists will discuss your condition with you and determine if treatment is appropriate. Why do we make you fill out a medical questionnaire first? We take a holistic approach to your health and believe that past events in distant areas of the body can have a lasting impact today. Furthermore, you may think that we accept everyone for treatment, but at Clear Passage Therapies our main concern is your health and certain conditions may make you inappropriate for treatment. To get started on your medical questionnaire, click here.
15. Speak with a previous Clear Passage patient. After you send us your medical questionnaire, we can match you with a previous patient with a similar medical history. You can then email or call her with any questions.
16. Take personal time for self-reflection and meditation. Choosing a medical treatment option is an important decision. We strongly believe in intuition and feel that you should listen to how your gut is guiding you . . . even if that means not coming to us. We want you to choose the best option for YOU.

Have ideas for other steps that would help you decide if treatment is right for you? Please feel free to leave a comment below.

By Jackie

Many women who experience intercourse pain believe the pain is something they just have to live with or tolerate. They manage the pain by having sex sparingly or avoiding sex at times when it might be particularly painful (such as during ovulation or the week before).

However, if a woman is trying to conceive, she cannot avoid sex or only have sex when it feels best for her. Emily, a former CPT patient, struggled with just this problem. When she and her husband married, she was disappointed to find that sex was extremely painful. She told us that the pain “was almost unbearable.” Emily and her husband seldom had sex due to the pain, but when they decided to have children, she had to endure the pain. Emily told us, “We tried to have sex more often, and the stress of trying to push past the pain was making my menstrual cycles irregular.”

Adhesions at the cervix can cause painful intercourse and infertility

Painful intercourse is not normal. In fact, pain with intercourse is a clue that there might be something else wrong. CPT has treated many women who experienced infertility and a large majority of them experienced painful intercourse as well. We feel that painful intercourse is a sign that adhesions have formed in the reproductive tract, possibly adhering, restricting, and preventing proper function and fertility.

When Emily came to us for help, CPT therapists delicately and sensitively treated adhesions in her reproductive tract. Emily stated, “I felt very comfortable at CPT and in control of the treatment. At times, it was uncomfortable because they were treating a very pain-sensitive area, but I could tell the difference as the pain decreased with each session.”

Emily and her husband were eventually able to resume regular intercourse. Emily reported, “Before treatment my husband had never been able to enter me fully, and finally he was able to!” Emily’s menstrual cycle also returned to a regular cycle and she is currently expecting.

Emily’s full story, along with stories by over 75 patients, will be featured in our upcoming book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain. To read more about the connection between painful intercourse and fertility, read our blog post: Infertility and Sexual Dysfunction are Linked – And It’s Not All in Your Head
Please visit our website to learn more about our treatment for painful intercourse and female infertility.

By Jackie

With economic experts and the U.S. government warning that the economic recession will likely worsen, you may wonder if you can afford infertility treatments. But just because we, as Americans, are collectively rethinking the way we spend money and live our lives, does not mean we have to give-up on our dreams. The desire to have a child is unlike any other and many women dream of being pregnant, giving birth, and raising a biological child.

If infertility comes between you and that dream, you may wonder how much you are willing to do or spend to achieve your dream during this hard economic time. Instead of worrying about affording infertility treatments, you may benefit from a change in perspective. Due to pay cuts and decreased job benefits, many Americans are changing their perspective on how their lifestyle. Many have realized that a natural, holistic, and frugal perspective not only benefits their bank accounts, but leads to a better, healthier, and happier life. Some Americans have made shifts by riding their bikes to work, while others prepare meals at home with their families instead of eating-out.

This shift in perspective can also be applied to your fertility. Instead of thinking of female infertility as a “broken reproductive system,” think of your fertility in a holistic matter. The body is an incredible, inter-connected organism. Your daily lifestyle choices such as the food you eat, the amount of exercise you get, and your level of stress greatly impact your general health – and therefore your fertility. Even injuries in another part of your body can impact your fertility (see Could your Unexplained Infertility Be Due to a Car Accident?).

When making decisions about infertility treatments, try to approach your options from a holistic viewpoint. Look for treatment options that address the entire body. You can also greatly improve your fertility without having to pay a dime. By simply going outside for a walk or cutting down on the amount of calories you eat, you increase your chances of conception.

When your decisions and treatment choices are based on your overall health and what is best for your body, every cent you spend will be worth it. To learn more about positive changes you can make now to improve your chances of conception, read Smart Choices Now Contribute to Your Future Health.

By Jackie

Maintaining a sexually satisfying relationship can be difficult for couples struggling with infertility.  Judith C. Daniluk, author of an article entitled, “Keeping Your Sex Life Alive While Coping with Infertility” explains that, “Infertility affects a person’s feelings about themselves – their masculinity or femininity, their self worth, their self esteem, their body.”

Many women experience a deterioration of sexual satisfaction during infertility treatments, often related to feelings of disappointment, guilt, or low self esteem. These feelings can decrease a woman’s sexual desire, arousal, ability to lubricate, and overall satisfaction.

A study published by Fertility and Sterility (October 2007) found that women experience greater levels of anxiety and sexual stress due to infertility than men. For some women, infertility treatments directly decrease desire and arousal because of altered hormonal levels.

Although these articles and studies show that decreased sexual satisfaction can be related to emotional and mental health, it is imperative that women know sexual dysfunction or painful intercourse is not always, “all in your head.”

At CPT, we often find that female infertility and sexual dysfunction are physically linked. Frequently, a woman will experience a common event such as a car accident, vaginal infection, STD, sexual abuse, or surgery that causes adhesions to form within the reproductive tract. These adhesions can lead to infertility by restricting or pulling the fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterus, and vagina. Although some women may not initially experience any pain or sexual dysfunction at the time, the continued pulling and restriction can cause more adhesions to form, eventually resulting in painful intercourse and sexual dysfunction six to twelve months later. Because of the delayed onset, women often do not see the connection between their infertility and sexual dysfunction.

CPT therapists see sexual dysfunction as a clue to discover the cause of a woman’s infertility. We often ask patients, “When did your sexual dysfunction begin? How often does it occur? Are you experiencing trouble with arousal, desire, satisfaction, orgasm, pain, or lubrication? In what sexual positions does sex hurt? Where exactly does it hurt and what does it feel like?”

The answers to these questions shape our individualized treatment for each woman. Many women find that when we resolve the cause of their infertility, we also resolve the cause of their sexual dysfunction and pain.

To learn more about our treatment, please visit our sexual dysfunction page, painful intercourse page, or female infertility page.

By Jackie

Adhesions occur in response to injury, such as surgery, trauma, inflammation, or infection. When the injury occurs, collagen rushes to the area to contain the site. This “sticky” collagen can continue to thicken and form an adhesion. Because of its sticky nature, an adhesion can bind previously free and mobile structures together.

Adhesions can impair fertility in women in multiple ways. Adhesions located in the following areas have particularly detrimental affects:

• On internal and external uterine walls: These adhesions can cause irritation and inflammation in the uterus, leading to implantation problems or recurrent miscarriage. These adhesions are likely to form in woman who has had an IUD, D&C, abortion, or uterine surgery.
• In or around the fallopian tubes: These adhesions can constrict the fallopian tube, causing a blockage, hydrosalpinx, or ectopic pregnancy to occur. Women who have had fibroid surgery, pelvic inflammatory disease, or any sexually transmitted disease are particularly at risk
• On the surface of the ovaries: These adhesions can cover the ovary, preventing the release of an ovum or proper hormonal function. Women who have PCOS or have had a cyst removal have an increased risk
• Near the fimbrea: When adhesions form near the finger-like projections of the fallopian tube, they can prevent the fimbrea from grasping an egg. Women who have had chronic inflammation are at an increased risk.
• On or within the issues of the cervix: These adhesions can cause the cervix to constrict, preventing the passage of sperm. They can also cause uterine spasm. Women who experience deep intercourse pain frequently have adhesions in this area.
• On the pituitary: Located within in the cranium, the pituitary can be restricted by adhesions that pull on the cranial bones and dura of the spine. When this happens, the pituitary’s function is decreased, resulting in hormonal dysfunction. Women with chronic headaches are likely to have adhesions around the cranium.

Adhesions are particularly difficult for doctors to diagnose because they are often too small to be seen by diagnostic tests. Only through surgery can a surgeon visualize adhesions, and even then, he or she cannot see adhesions within organs.

Furthermore, women may not experience one of the tell-tale signs of adhesions formation – pain. Thus, even though a woman has had a yeast or bladder infection, an IUD, a motor vehicle accident, or childhood fall, she may never realize that adhesions formed and are negatively impacting her fertility.

At CPT, our therapists palpate the entire body to find adhered and restricted mobility. Through treating the entire body, they restore proper function and enable women to finally become pregnant. To read more about our treatment for infertility, please visit our adhesions and infertility page.